Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, April 07, 1988

A break-in discovered Tuesday morning, April 5, by Challenge Center staff, when they came to work, revealed the loss of a microwave oven which had been obtained by collecting Campbell's soup labels, according to Connie BAILEY, program director. Other missing items included a pair of tennis shoes, used by one of the clients in preparation for participation in the Special Olympics April 16; a coffee maker; a quilt on display in the crafts section of the workshop for mentally retarded adults; a 35 mm camera, and a padlock with key, BAILEY said. Also, a large, well-developed plant, that had been sitting on a refrigerator, was missing.

Several Ringgold countians are among the 348 "non-traditional" students seeking education at Southwestern Community College in Creston. The Ringgold neighbors are taking advantage of SWCC's vocational and college-prepartory training.

Mount Ayr Community elementary school students took to the floor of the art room to work on sandpainting when artist in the school David Garrison of Burlington visited the school recently. Students drew designs, put rubber cement on the areas they wanted sand to stick and then sprinkled sand from the plastic containers of brightly colored sand on their sheets to create their own sand paintings.

Bobbi and Billi HUNT of Diagonal and Emily McALEXANDER of Beaconsfield were among the six Southwest Iowa extension area 4-H members named as state 4-H council members following interviews held in Atlantic Friday, March 18. Emily is a senior at Mount Ayr Community high school and in her ninth year in 4-H and Bobbi and Billi are junior sat Diagonal Community schools and in their eighth year in 4-H.

Representatives of the Mount Ayr Resource Commission (MARC) held a ribbon cutting ceremony in observance of the opening of a new Mount Ayr business this week. Bill MAYER has opened a used farm equipment business along Highway 2 and 169 in the west part of town.

MACS junior high science instructor, Mr. Larry KIMBLE, is among several outstanding Iowa science classroom teachers selected by the University of Iowa to serve as lead teachers for their Chautauqua Program. KIMBLE, a 1957 graduate of Mount Ayr Community high school, began his teaching career in 1961 at MACS in the junior high science position he presently holds.

There will be five Challenge Center clients who will be participating in two events at the district Special Olympics to be held in Creston Saturday, April 16. Dan REYNOLDS, Ralph HAMPTON, Steve GILBERT, Joan ROUTH and Sharon LESAN will participate in the 800 meter walk race and the softball throw.

Feb. 23, a son to Bobby RICHARDS and Heather EGGERS, Kellerton

OBITUARIES in April 07, 1988 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Gladys Faye HENDRICKS MONDAY   Hazel Bernice MAIN JENNINGS
Edward Emmel MINNICK     Emma Ursula HELD YOUNG

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2013

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