Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 1, 1986

Over 300 people attended the annual concert by the Ringgold Singers held at Mount Ayr Community high school's auditorium Friday night to hear "The Year in Music."

For 24 years the heartbeat of the Ringgold County Fair, Merritt TRIGGS of rural Mount Ayr now is influencing the whole state as he directs Iowa State Fair activities. When he was elected president three years ago, he was the first state fair board president to come from southwest Iowa.

The Ringgold County Fair Board has a new secretary, Jack COOK of Mount Ayr, after relying on the management of TRIGGS from 1961 to 1985.

Art work of Gary BAKER of Mount Ayr, a student at Mount Ayr Community high school, has been selected for the Iowa High School Art Exhibition 1986 at the University of Iowa. Also included in the competition was the awarding of a scholarship to the University of Iowa. BAKER will be attending Morningside College in Sioux City instead, however. The is designed to reflect the current outstanding art work of Iowa high school seniors.

The Lotts Creek Riley Rustlers4-H Club, under the junior leadership of Beth MARTIN, is continuing the neighborhood betterment project at the wildlife area southeast of Mount Ayr. The club received the second grant from Pioneer to help them fund the project. This year the club decided to sharpen some beginning woodworking skills and built 13 birdhouses which have been put in the area. In addition to that, nearly 20 Russian olive, black walnut, choke cherry and jack pine shrubs were planted.

Capturing top honors at the Max KEITH Drafting Fair held at SWCC were Max TRIGGS and Vic LILIENTHAL. The students are instructed by Mr. Chet ROAD.

Mount Ayr Iowa Southern Utilities team who successfully defended its men's team title during the 24th annual company bowling tournament held at Ottumwa included Neil TOLAND, meter reader; Marvin WOOLLUMS, lineman first foreman; Lowell HOWIE, district serviceman; Bob HALEY, district lineman, and Raymond HENSLEY, district serviceman. They had a 2,816 series. This was their third such title in the past four years.

Mount Ayr Community school was represented by Marty SCHNOOR, Ron LANDPHAIR (industrial arts instructor) and Robbie GRAHAM at the state Plymouth/AAA troubleshooting contest held at Hawkeye Institute of Technology in Waterloo. The student team placed 11th at the statewide event. In the state hands-on contest, the teams repaired deliberately "bugged" identical 1986 Plymouths. The contest is a nationwide competition involving 6,500 schools in all 50 states.

April 28, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen WORTHINGTON, Mount Ayr

OBITUARIES in May 1, 1986 Mount Ayr Record-News:

C. Gerald "Jerry" GLEASON   Terry Ray HAINLINE   Vienna Eliza BROWN ADAMS
Lloyd Courtney ENGLAND   William J. VOLTMER

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2011

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