Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 10, 1988

Two Mount Ayr Community high school drill team members will be among the 96 girls from 48 schools in the state who will be in the all-Iowa honor drill team this year. Jamie JONES and Jeanne LAWHEAD are co-captains of the Mount Ayr Community high school drill team and will perform with the honor drill team Friday, March 1, during the halftime of the girls state basketball tournament game.

Ribbon cutting ceremonies were held at two new Mount Ayr businesses this week. Breadeaux Pisa and the Spec Shoppe were both welcomed to the community by a group of members of the Mount Ayr Resource Commission.

Tom GREENE, 47, of Mount Ayr received three broken ribs and had some internal bleeding that was being treated at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines after his arrival by Life Flight helicopter Monday evening, March 7, according to his wife, Charlene. She said GREENE had been working in a trench near the Kenny HEBENSPERGER residence along Highway 2, located some six miles east of Mount Ayr, about 3 p.m. Monday when the earth came down on him. She understood his companion, Dan MINNICK, was able to free GREENE and bring him to the Ringgold County Hospital. GREENE then was transferred to Des Moines about 9 p.m., Mrs. GREENE said. GREENE is a services technician for Contel Telephone Company.

Ten Mount Ayr Community Office Education Association students will attend the national convention in Louisville, KY in April. They include Jody SHIELDS, Jill TAYLOR, Christy SHIELDS, Jenny SHIELDS, Melissa CLARK, Cliff BUELL, Kelly RICHARDS, Jackie GOODALE, Susan THOMPSON and Janell FREIHAGE.

Ed McCREARY of Mount Ayr showed the Grand Champion polled Gelbvieh female in the first International Polled Gelbvieh show and sale held at the Iowa Beef Expo in Des Moines February 18. The heifer with a two-day-old calf at side was sold for $3,500. McCREARY also showed the reserve champion senior bull and the McCREARYS also showed a reserve champion junior bull during the show.

Gene SMITH, a farm owner and businessman from Mount Ayr, announced he will seek the Republican nomination for the Iowa Senate in District 46, which includes all or part of Adair, Adams, Cass, Clarke, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor and Union counties. SMITH, 54, is currently service manager of an auto dealership in Mount Ayr and lives on a farm nine miles northeast of Mount Ayr.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

 

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