Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 24, 1995

The nine new faculty members in the Mount Ayr Community school district this year include Suzi ANGUS, special education teacher at the secondary level and at the alternative school; Eric EHLEN, junior high health, junior high study hall and assistant high school wrestling coach; John FLANERY, vocal music in Mount Ayr and Grand Valley; Donna KEMERY, elementary Chapter I teacher; Dale KURTH, junior high language arts, high school speech and drama, drama club sponsor; Karen TAYLOR, elementary Chapter I teacher and aide; Jane UHLENKAMP, elementary art teacher at Mount Ayr and Grand Valley; Brian WEIDENTHALER, computers and technology and academic decathlon; and Julie WEIDENTHALER, junior high science and co-junior high student council sponsor.

Dillon COMBS, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich COMBS of Atlantic, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Gaylan COMBS and the great-grandson of Cuma COMBS, all of Mount Ayr, has been named "The Coca Cola Kid." This means that Dillon is being featured on this year's brochure and posters advertixing "Coca Cola Days" in Atlantic, Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 21-24. He is wearing the hand-crafted costume, a replica of a coke can, that won him first place in the kiddies parade two years ago. he won several prizes and was interviewed by the local paper in Atlantic.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012

 

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