Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 13, 2003

Jacque BAKER was crowned the 2003 Ringgold county beef queen at the annual county Cattlemen's Association meeting Saturday. BAKER is the daughter of Mark and Janelle BAKER of Diagonal.

Ringgold County Sheriff's Office has finished investigating an incident involving the Mount Ayr Golf & Country Club and another incident where nine cattle owned by Doyle RICHARDS were shot.

A new date has been set for a visit by astronaut Peggy WHITSON to the Mount Ayr Community school district. According to elementary principal Rob OLSEN, WHITSON is now scheduled to visit the school on Friday, April 4.

Junior and senior members of the Diagonal homecoming court include DaNelle MOFFITT, Tory WALKUP, Alex STEPHENS, Trisha MOFFITT, Danielle NEWTON, Greg GOODALE, Cody WERNER and Trevor WOLF.

Four awards were received by the Mount Ayr Record-News when the results of the Iowa Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest were announced Friday in Des Moines. Awards for excellence in editorial writing, news feature writing, coverage of agriculture and agriculture advertising were received at the awards banquet. The Mount Ayr Record-News competes in a class with other weekly newspapers in Iowa who have subscriber numbers between 1,401 and 2,649.

Mount Ayr Chamber of Commerce members held a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday morning at Tires Plus, located on Highways 2 and 169 next to Splash n' Dash. Bobby HALEY, owner and manager, is now open for business.

Nancy ELMER, daughter of Diane HUNTSMAN and Richard ELMER of Mount Ayr, was installed as Worthy Advisor of Mount Ayr Assembly #160, International Order of Rainbow for Girls in Iowa and Minnesota on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003 at the Mount Ayr Masonic Temple.

Brian INLOES received the award as the highest scoring eighth grader and the third place individual overall in the regional Math Counts competition held in Council Bluffs recently. The Mount Ayr Community team, which also included Grant LARSEN, Lucas SMITH and Zach LYNCH, won the trophy as the top small school team in the contest.

Kevin TRULLINGER won the Pride of Iowa conference wrestling title at 215 pounds.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

 

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