Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, January 30, 2003

Ringgold county residents will have several opportunities to hear presentations by Dr. Peggy WHITSON,NASA astronaut, when she comes to visit Mount Ayr the first week in February.

Six Ringgold county area students will be traveling to the state large group speech contest at Hoover high school in Des Moines Saturday, Feb. 8. The group improvisation team of Dustin ADAMS, Callie POORE and Katy KIMBLE from Mount Ayr Community high school and the team of Trevor WOLF, Alex STEPHENS and Jeremy SOBOTKA from Diagonal Community high school received division I ratings to advance.

A Ringgold county student had an article published in the January 6 issue of "RT Image," a publication for radiologic technicians. "Unspoken Language: Nonverbal communication in the radiology department" is the title of the article by Carrie QUICK of Redding. QUICK is a radiologic technology student at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines and won second place in the magazine's student writing contest with the article.

State representative Cecil DOLECHECK of Mount Ayr signs the oath of office as part of the swearing in ceremony for his fourth term in the Iowa House of Representatives. DOLECHECK will begin the session with a class of first year legislators which is one of the biggest in recent memory, with 40 representatives entering the House chamber for the first time. "We need to focus on better schools, economic development and sound financial footing for the state's future," DOLECHECK said.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

 

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