Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 18, 1986

Donald JORDISON, executive vice-president of the Asphalt Paving Association of Iowa, attended the city county meeting Monday night with Lynn SICKELS, who is working on engineering for a paving project in the city in 1987, to talk about the project. Being discussed is a project that would replace the asphalt overlay on Shellway Drive and Dunning Avenue, which was last done in 1963, and projects to paveover brick streets on streets leading up to the Mount Ayr square.

Cynthia "Syndi" HALEY, 19-year-old student at Hair Tech in Creston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert HALEY of Mount Ayr, is in Mercy Hospital, Des Moines, being treated for a "shattered nose" injury sustained in an auto accident December 13. She was reported by the Ringgold county sheriff's office to have been traveling north on P-27, about 10 miles north of Diagonal, just south of the Union-Ringgold county line, when the accident happened. She said she served to miss a deer. Her 1979 Ford, which was totaled, went into a ditch, struck a field driveway and became airborne, finally coming to rest on its top along a field fence.

Ringgold county youth active in the 4-H program were honored for achievements in many areas when the annual 4-H awards program was held Sunday afternoon at the Mount Ayr community high school auditorium.

Township committees for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service were named recently when the county ASCS committee met to tabulate the ballots of the community committee elections. Gerald BAKER of Clearfield, Marion CREVELING of Ellston and Linford MASON of Ellston, the members of the ASCS committee, tabulated the ballots Friday.

Gina HEWLETT, a freshman at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, attended a dinner for presidential scholarship winners at the home of the college president, Dr. Robert J. PRINS, recently. The presidential scholarships recognize outstanding academic achievement and are the top academic scholarships awarded by Iowa Wesleyan College. HEWLETT is majoring in elementary education. She is the daughter of Mary GIBSON of Osceola and a graduate of Grand Valley Community high school.

Tamara MORRISON of Des Moines has been selected as a page for the newly-elected lieutenant governor of Iowa. Her responsibilities begin when the 1987 legislature convenes in January. She is the daughter of Meredith and Daphne MORRISON, former Lamoni residents, and a granddaughter of Lucille MORRISON of Grand River.

Merritt TRIGGS of Mount Ayr was re-elected to the Iowa State Fair Board of Directors during the state agricultural meeting in Des Moines. TRIGGS has just completed his third term as board president. A purebred swine producer, he has served as secretary/manager of the Ringgold County Fair for more than 20 years.

When Helen SCHARDEIN of Mount Ayr retires, as of January 1987, it will be the first time since she was 16 years old that she will not be gainfully employed.

A Christmas gift of music, the 10th in a series stretching back 12 years, was given to the community by Jane, Angie and Sean THOMAS Sunday night, Dec. 14. The playing and singing of popular, classical and religious music by the three is "an expression of Christian faith shared with the community," Jane feels.

Leland and Mary DUFTY of Kellerton and Lila KELLEY of Mount Ayr are recognized as Century Farm owners. The DUFTY farm has been in the family since 1882 and the KELLEY farm has been in the family since 1883.

Jan McCLURE and Sandy MEKUS talked about their Mascots Unlimited business begun here at the December MARC meeting held at Small Corral. The two local women have begun a business of making mascot items for university athletic teams.

Billi HUNT, daughter of Lois HUNT of Diagonal and the late Frank HUNT, received a $50 scholarship from the Iowa Honey Bee Producers Association for her winning essay. HUNT'S essay also represented the Iowa 4-H program in the 1986 Bee Essay Contest, sponsored by the American Beekeeping Federation.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012

 

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