Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 20, 2001

Ringgold county sheriff Bob BENNETT, chief deputy Randy HULLINGER, county auditor Kim O'MAILIA, county board of supervisors members and the Mount Ayr City council met at a special meeting of the council Tuesday to evaluate the county-wide law enforcement program. Both city and council officials gave high marks to the program, while raising a few questions related to providing security over the whole county.

A Ringgold county student at Iowa State University in Ames has accepted membership in Golden Key International Honour Society. Christopher Lyle LEONARD, a 1998 graduate of Mount Ayr Community high school, joined the non-profit, academic honors organization that provides academic recognition,leadership opportunities, community service, career networking and scholarships, during a campus ceremony.

A Mount Ayr Community high school student is a finalist in The Iowa State Bar Association's Young Lawyers Divisions "Know Your Constitution" project. Landi McFARLAND of Tingley is one of 100 finalists selected from more than 5,000 students across the state who participated in the project. McFARLAND is a student of Delwyn SHOWALTER and will be accompanied to Des Moines by James SAVILLE. Should she be chosen, Pam CROSS would accompany her to Washington, D.C.

The Iowa Cattlemen's Association presented its highest awards at their annual convention on Wednesday, Dec. 5. Earning the Hall of Fame award was the Ringgold county cattleman Lee FARIS of Mount Ayr. FARIS has served as a past president of his county organization, vice-president of his county organization, district director of the Iowa Cattlemen's Association, president-elect of the ICA and president of the ICA. He currently serves as vice-president of the Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation. He and his wife Martha have raised three children, Rodney, Jacqueline and Jennifer and have several grandchildren.

A Ringgold county student helped demonstrate equipment at agraphic arts open house held recently at the Des Moines Area Community College's Ankeny campus. Jerad PENICK of Mount Ayr, a second-year graphic arts student, demonstrated a spectrophotometer in a color corrections booth in the new computer lab at the campus.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012

 

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