Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, April 03, 2003

An old Mount Ayr site may soon become known well beyond the reaches of Ringgold county. "Junk Ditch Road" is the name of an acoustic band that is making a name for itself in Arizona and is working on its first recording, if the website of the band is to be believed. Members the band include Chris HEINEN, Terry KOTTOM, Dave KLAUS, Cody ROE and T. J. CASEY. The band plays at a coffee house in Tempe, AZ on some weekends.

When the Iowa Jazz Championships are held in Des Moines Tuesday, the Mount Ayr Community Raider jazz band will again be taking part. The Raiders qualified as a wild-card entry in the festival after placing a head of 14 bands during the jazz festival season and winning events at Woodward-Granger and the Bluffs Jazz Fest. Also qualifying for the jazz championships in a wild card spot was the Lamoni Community high school jazz band, directed by Aaron COMER, a Mount Ayr Community high school graduate. COMER'S band will be competing in the Class 1A division.

Two households in Ringgold county have ventured into a relatively new business that fits well in a home-based business setting, is environmentally sound and supports local agriculture. The business is soy wax candle making. The entrepreneurs are Rick and Sherry WILEY of rural Diagonal with their business "Keeper of the Flame," and Carole AKERS of rural Kellerton whose business is "Carole's Soy Creations."

Dr. Peggy WHITSON, Ringgold county's own astronaut, will return to the area this week for a series of appearances to share experiences from her six-month stay in space on the International Space Station. WHITSON graduated from Mount Ayr Community high school in 1978.

A Mount Ayr Community elementary school fifth grader placed fifth in his division at the AAU state wrestling tournament in Cedar Rapids Saturday. Dylan LAME was fifth in the fifth and sixth grade 205 pound division in the tournament. He is the son of Jennifer LAME of Kellerton and Chuck LAME of Lamoni.

Matthew WIMER was the state champion in the 189 pound junior high division at the AAU state wrestling tournament in Cedar Rapids Saturday. He is the son of Michael and Shelly WIMER of Mount Ayr and the grandson of Jerry and Karen WIMER of Mount Ayr and Allen and Shirley DAVIDSON of Grant City, MO.

August 08, 2002, to Charles and Misty PAGE, Emporia KS

OBITUARIES in April 03, 2003 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Clarence "Mac" McGAHUEY    Marjorie "Eileen" JACKSON MILLER
Marie Elizabeth DREDGE RAINS    James Eugene SISSON

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

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