Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 23, 1995

Mount Ayr Community high school hosted the Pride of Iowa conference honor band for its practices and concert Tuesday, Nov. 14. David A. WILLIAMS, director of the bands at Morningside College in Sioux City, worked with the students from the bands of the six Pride of Iowa conference schools and led them in a 45-minute concert following an afternoon of practice. The 90-member band included 15 students from Mount Ayr Community high school.

Christopher NICHOLS, son of Lyle and Mildred NICHOLS of Mount Ayr, was recently promoted to the rank of major. NICHOLS is an instructor on the C-130 cargo transport. He is presently stationed at Little Rock, AR Air National Guard (active) at Jacksonville, AR. He trains pilots of many nationalities. His wife, the former Karen MOORE, is a CPA and owns her own tax business. Both NICHOLS and his wife are graduates of Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, OK.

A nonviolent civil disobedience demonstration is being planned for the Iowa Select Farms hog facility near Maloy Monday, Nov. 27. The demonstration will block a driveway of the hog facility, which is under expansion, to symbolize their opposition to the rapid development of these facilities "without regard of local people's health and well being or to environmental hazards." Participants will include local, rural and small town dwellers and clergy people, along with others who share alarm about the proliferation of large-scale hog facilities.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012

 

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