Cold temperatures didn't stop a band of 13 hardy cowboys and cowgirls from an old-fashioned cattle roundup from Plain City to Willard. About another dozen people helped out in their trucks Sunday. Rancher Ken Jackson, who owns Pleasant Plains Ranch in Plain City, decided to retire and sell off his 175 head of cows at the Anderson Livestock Company after 53 years in the business. Livestock company officials decided it was less expensive, safer and easier to just drive the animals by horseback the six miles from the ranch to the sale barn than it would be to truck them. "What great neighbors the Andersons are," Jackson said of their efforts to help him. "To say you are going to do something and have 30 people show up to help you, that's something." Jackson said he didn't have anyone to whom to leave his operation, so when the cows are sold, it will be the end of an era for his operation. "There's times you have to move on," said the retiring rancher. "Time has come." The Andersons treated everyone in the roundup to a dinner afterward...
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