comp coverage results from a num-ber of factors. According to Tyler, the National Council on Compen-sation has dictated a 3.7 percent overall increase for Iowa work-men’s comp rates effective April 1 with a seven-percent additional in-crease effective September 1. Tyler said that was the largest single-year workmen’s comp rate increase he had ever seen. However, since the council is renewing its policy now, it will not see the additional seven-percent increase until renewal at this time next year. Beyond the mandated increase, Tyler attributed the higher premi-um to both a 15-percent increase in city payroll and an increase in the modifi cation factor from 1.34 to 1.41. The modifi cation factor is based on a three-year average of workmen’s comp claims. Tyler re-ported the modifi cation factor will begin to decrease next year based on zero city workmen’s comp claims

crease in property taxes to fund a 19.9 percent increase in personnel costs. 2) Carryover balance represents 64 percent of tax revenues. 3) IDOM Form A674 has no ac-tual fund balance. The petition asks that the ag-ricultural extension levy be re-duced to a rate necessary to effect a 25-percent fund carryover bal-ance.Assessor budget protest The petition lists fi ve specifi c objections to the county assessor’s budget: 1) The budget was not adopted at the public hearing as required by Iowa Code 543-2.1. 2) Special Appraiser Fund FY 2012 (actual line 63) overspends FY 2012 (estimated line 60) by $207 in violation of Iowa Code 24.15. 3) The adopted budget repre-sents a 9.5 percent budget growth. 4) IDOM Form 673 provides no actual budget balance for any fund

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Railroad marker

re-purposedAs part of our commemoration

of the Record-News’ 150th year of publishing, each week we will feature a photo of life

in Ringgold County.

“Snapshots of Ringgold

County” photos will vary as the seasons and events dictate.

This mailbox post in

Washington township south of Diagonal was re-purposed

from a mile-marker used by one of the railroads that ran

through Ringgold county. According to local historian Mike Avitt, the original line

was built in 1887 by the Chicago, Kansas City and

Saint Paul railroad. The line changed hands over the years until fi nally being taken out of

service and disassembled by the Chicago and Northwestern

railroad in 1985, when the mile-marker was moved a

short distance to its current location.

This is the fi fth of the photos in our commemorative series.

Representatives from the Iowa State Board of Appeals will hold a series of public hearings in re-sponse to formal protests regard-ing the recent certifi cation of the fi scal year 2014 county budget. The hearings will take place in the assembly room at the Ringgold county courthouse on Tuesday, April 23. A series of four hearings will be held that day, beginning at 9 a.m. with the Ringgold County Hospital budget. A hearing on the E-911 service board budget is set for 10:45 a.m. In the afternoon, the hearing for the Agricultural Exten-sion Board budget will begin at 1:15 p.m. followed by the county assessor budget hearing at 3 p.m. The hearings stem from a series of protests submitted to the state board of appeals by 10 county resi-dents concerning certifi cation of the FY 2014 county budget. Appearing as signees on all four protest petitions are Jerry Cooper of Mount Ayr, Pamela G. Cooper of Mount Ayr, Lillian Robertson of Diagonal, P.G. Potts of Diago-

State to review protests of county budget certifi cationPublic hearings for Hospital, E-911, Extension and Assessor budgets

nal, Ronald D. Abbott of Diago-nal, Marvin Sobotka of Diagonal, Rex Sobotka of Diagonal, Galen E. Baker of Clearfi eld, Cynthia J. Baker of Clearfi eld and Kevin Kilgore of Diagonal.Hospital budget protest The petition cites three specifi c objections to the hospital budget: 1) the adopted budget invokes a larger property tax levy rate than the hospital is allowed to collect. 2) Restricted Funds line 9 from Iowa Department of Management (IDOM) Form 676 Adopted Bud-get Summary has no carryover bal-ance; Restricted Use Funds lines 2-8 are transferred to the general fund rather than being expended (and accounted for) in their own fund. 3) IDOM Form 676 Adopted Budget Summary provides no ac-tual budget balance for any fund or as a total (lines E and F). The petition states the belief that the interests of the taxpay-ers of Ringgold county will be best served by minimizing budget growth and reducing levy rates

rather than continuing to overtax to support increased budget growth.E-911 budget protest The petition cites four specifi c objections to the E-911 Service Board budget: 1) The adopted budget repre-sents a two-year budgeted expen-diture increase of 639 percent. 2) The FY 2014 adopted budget is not posted on the IDOM web-site. FY 2013 budgeted carryover balance represents 308 percent of surcharge revenues. 3) IDOM Form E-911-1 has no actual fund balance. 4) The E-911 Service Board budget is not accounted for in the county budget (Service Area 1 line 16). The petition asks that the E-911 surcharge be zeroed by the pro-gram manager as a matter of ex-cessive fund carryover balance.Extension budget protest The petition cites three specifi c objections to the agricultural ex-tension budget: 1) The FY 2014 adopted bud-get represents a 12.9 percent in-

Garbage discussion turns contentious Near the conclusion of Mon-day’s meeting, Tim Newton, own-er of Divine Waste of Mount Ayr, addressed the council in regard to the ongoing discussion about gar-bage collection service for the city. He provided a proposed contract for the service as well as additional letters of recommendation from his current customers. During his presentation Newton stressed the importance of award-ing a contract soon so the contrac-tor would have the required time to purchase receptacles and other materials necessary to run the ser-vice. He contended if the council postponed its decision too close to the end of June, the contract would necessarily default to Waste Man-agement because no one else, in-cluding the city, would be prepared to take on the service. Newton also contended the current contractor, Waste Manage-ment, did nothing to improve the community. In contrast, Newton said, his company has a long his-tory of community involvement including a scholarship fund, a toy drive and sponsorship of Ayr Days and the County Fair. “We buy our fuel here, we buy all of our sup-plies here, we buy our parts here, we have our equipment worked on here,” he said. “We try to spend all of the money we can right here, in the city and in the county.” Newton also stressed his com-pany’s recycling capabilities. He explained Ringgold county cur-rently shows negative growth in recycling based on the DNR’s goal of increasing recycling by 50 percent. In other words, accord-ing to Newton, the county actually records less recycling rather than more. Newton said Divine Waste is opening a recycling center and has

A soggy Easter Egg huntRain couldn’t keep a hearty group of youngsters from enjoying the annual Easter egg hunt Saturday morning on the Ringgold county courthouse grounds. The event was sponsored by Support Our Students (SOS) and Community Grocers, Inc.

invested a considerable amount of money in bringing a recycling pro-gram to the county. He claimed the recycling center would create four to six jobs with the possibility of more in the future. He said he is currently working with the DNR to bring a similar program to Mount Ayr, so the city and county could become leaders in the state for their recycling efforts. Newton then addressed nega-tives of the city’s current recycling program. He said he has seen and heard stories of recycling bins be-ing emptied into the back of gar-bage trucks. He contended the county eliminated its large recy-cling bin because Waste Manage-ment was not sorting and weighing the contents properly. He added that he had talked to people who had called city hall to request recycling bins only to be told the city was no longer handing out the bins because recycling was not cost-effective. At this point the discussion be-came contentious. “I don’t know what you’re talk-ing about,” replied city clerk Pam Poore. She explained that there was no cost associated with the re-cycling program, which is included as part of the existing contract. “Yesterday I just had someone tell me that,” said Newton. “That’s not true,” said mayor Don Solliday. “He didn’t come in and ask for one, either that or we might have been out.” “No, he called city hall, and they told him it was not cost-effective to do recycling,” said Newton. “That is a lie,” said Solliday. “Is it a lie also that people have come in and said they’ve seen them putting the recycling in the garbage?” asked Newton.

“Yes, we’ve had that com-plaint,” said Solliday. “We’ve had some complaints about you too.” “I’ve had some complaints about you too, Don,” Newton shot back. “And you come in here and jump on our new man [city superin-tendent Brent Wise] and give him a bunch of crap,” said Solliday. “I’m upset about that because the coun-cil gave him the job to look into going into the garbage business as a city. It wasn’t his idea, but he was trying to do his job... you were kind of rough on him.” “I thought we had a good talk,” replied Newton. “I thought it end-ed up being a very understanding and benefi cial talk. I wasn’t jump-ing on anybody, just bringing some stuff to the surface, because there are many things in his fi gures that just aren’t there and would need to be there. Brent’s never run a gar-bage company, and I don’t think anybody else has either. It’s easy to do when you’re working with taxpayer money to go into business and take that risk because you’re not risking your money, you’re risking the taxpayers’ money.” “I want to stop right there,” said councilman Wes Mathany. “It’s not easy to do. We have as much in-vested in this community as any-one else at this table.” “We’re going to make as good a decision as we can with the facts we have on the table,” said Solli-day. “And that’s what we intend to do. Personalities are not going to enter into it.” “When it comes to garbage,” said Wise, “I understand you have a great deal of passion to get this [contract]. No different than I have a great deal of passion to do the ab-solute best that I can for not only

“We’re Lynn’s, we’re local, we listen...” Ringgold county marked the end of an era Friday, March 29 with the closing of Lynn’s Sinclair at the corner of Highway 2 and Taylor Street in Mount Ayr. In December 1988 Lynn and Kathy Rinehart and Rich and Donna Routh bought the two-bay full service gas station at the location from the Sierp Oil Company. The original structure had been built in 1954 by the Phillips Petroleum Company. With Rinehart as manager, the station remained open as a full ser-vice station with oil changes and tire repair until October 1, 1989, when the station was closed and later demolished. A new, modern convenience store was built on the corner location, and exactly a year later, on October 1, 1990, Lynn’s Texaco offi cially opened for busi-ness. The store was associated with the Texaco brand until 2003 when it became affi liated with the Sinclair brand. In 2008 the Rineharts bought out Donna Routh’s interest to become full owners of the business. Looking back on his quarter century in business, Rinehart fondly recalled many stories. “Back in the glory days of pheasant hunting,” he said, “we had a number of ‘stars’ walk through our doors.” He mentioned profes-sional golfer Fuzzy Zoeller and sprint car champion Steve Kinzer as two examples. Lynn’s was also a favorite stop of former Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy when he would pass through town on recruiting trips. Rinehart also spoke with pride about a number of fi rsts associated with his business. “We had the fi rst canopy-covered gas island in the county,” he said, “and the fi rst ATM machine, too.” At one time, he said, Lynn’s was the top lottery sales outlet in the state of Iowa, thanks in large part, he said, to Roberta Campbell’s winning of $100,000 in the lottery with a ticket purchased in his store. Rinehart smiled as he recalled many of his now legendary adver-tisements. “It all started with a Christmas ad,” he said. “Alan [Smith] came to the house and took my picture standing next to a full-size cardboard cutout.” He said the advent of digital photography and Pho-toshop has greatly enhanced his creative choices. He also recalled once when he set the price for premium gas one penny too high to create some buzz. “Gas was getting close to $2 per gallon,” he said. “Premium should have been $1.99, but I set it at $2

these people sitting here but the people in this community. That’s what I was hired to do. And if I can’t do that or I fail at that, then hold me accountable, no differ-ent than we are attempting to hold

Waste Management accountable because the rates are at a level that is undesired. Now we don’t know, because we haven’t had a contract with you, on how you’re going to be able to perform, so if it does

come to a bid situation you will defi nitely know it will go to a bid situation, but it’s up to these people here.” “That’s why I’m here talking to them,” said Newton. “It has to

be acted upon in order to make that happen. The contract has been breached, and it should be put up for bid per Iowa code.”

End of an era as Lynn’s closes

and had to talk someone into buying premimum that day. Alan came and took a picture of the fi rst day gas broke the $2 mark in the history of Ringgold county.” Since the announcement of the store’s closing, Rinehart says he has received countless emails, calls and notes wishing him well and recalling great memories of Lynn’s. Many have come from his several hundred employees from over the years. To put some rumors to rest, Rinehart said the Casey’s General Store company is not involved with the closing of Lynn’s or obtaining the property. “I had heard the rumor so much I had to call them to ask if it was true,” he said with a smile. While Casey’s showed some initial inter-est, he said, the property is too small for what Casey’s had in mind. So what’s next? Rinehart simply said he’s keeping his options open. After 25 years of 4 a.m. wake-ups, he’s enjoying a few days off as he works with suppliers to clear the store of merchandise. “I’ve had a couple offers,” he said. “I’ll fi nd something to do.” Without a doubt, many Ringgold county residents and those just passing through will miss the friendly smile and creative wit Rinehart brought not only to the corner of Highway 2 and Taylor Street but also to the business community as a whole. But all things must pass... as stated in an addition to Lynn’s favorite slogan: “We’re Lynn’s, we’re local, we listen, we’re locking the door.”

The Mount Ayr city council re-newed its insurance package with EMC Insurance, its contract with the Sportsmen’s Club and a pump maintenance contract with Cen-tral Pump and Motor as part of its agenda at this week’s regular coun-cil meeting.Insurance Phil Tyler, the city’s insurance agent, brought renewal fi gures for the various insurance coverages the city carries. During his presen-tation, Tyler explained fewer and fewer companies are still willing to write coverage for cities and municipalities for a number of reasons, and only one, EMC Insur-ance, the city’s current carrier, had submitted bids. Tyler presented the following renewal quotes for council consid-eration: Current RenewalProperty $15,454 $21,637Liability $6,239 $7,508Crime $248 $305Inland marine $2,164 $2,072Auto $4,472 $4,668

Council approves increased insurance ratesWork Comp $14,516 $17,019Umbrella $2,485 $2,694Linebacker* $983 $1,305Total $46,561 $57,208* Linebacker is another term for directors and offi cers coverage. Tyler offered a number of rea-sons for the 40-percent increase in property coverage. EMC paid out $29,000 in city property claims for 2012. The loss ratio for 2012 was 185 percent and has averaged 108 percent over the past three years. Tyler said a typical loss ratio would be closer to 50 percent. Tyler also attributed increases in property insurance in this part of the state to recent catastrophic weather events, such as tornadoes and hail. In addition, infl ation has hit the construction industry caus-ing repairs and replacements cov-ered by property insurance to cost more. Another reason for the in-creased premium is the value esti-mated for city property in the new policy. That value rose from $11.6 million in 2012 to $13 million in

2013. Part of that increase is attrib-utable to the two-percent infl ation guard included in the policy, but the majority the increase is directly related to the new replacement cost estimate for the old water treat-ment plant. According to Tyler, in the current policy the replacement value of the plant is under-insured by nearly $1 million. Because the city plans to demolish the old treatment plant at some point in the near future, Tyler suggested insur-ing the plant for actual cash value rather than for replacement costs or eliminating property coverage on the plant altogether. Liability coverage on the plant would re-main intact. The city’s liability coverage includes water companies, camp-grounds and impoundments and swimming pools. Once the old treatment plant is taken off-line and the new water system project is completed, liability coverage to cover water companies could also be eliminated. The increase for workmen’s

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Fifty Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Re-cord-News, Thursday, March 28, 1963.)

Junior and bantam league bowlers of Mount Ayr were honored Thursday during a special awards program held a Lucky Lanes. Trophies and patches were presented to the boys for the seasons’s play. Trophies were awarded the Steve Nagys, who won the junior league, and the Mighty Three, winners of the bantam league. Bowlers for the Nagys were Steve Fetty, Cullen Geist, Chuck Meacham and Larry Adams, and team members of the Mighty Three were Alan Fetty, Mike McNeill and Curtis Stringham. Larry Hunter also received a trophy as a substitute for the Mighty Three. Individuals recognized with trophies were Johnny McFarland, who had the highest average, 153, and Bruce Henderson, scorer of the high game, 209, in the junior league, and Alan Fetty, for his high game of 220 in the bantam league. Four members of Diagonal’s state championship basketball team of 1938, coached by O. C. “Pop” Varner, attended the annual banquet for former state champions and coaches Saturday evening in the Kirkwood Hotel in Des Moines. They are Claire Brown of Mount Ayr; Eugene Pine and Ronald (Bud) Beymer of Diagonal, and Cletus Tindle of Osceola. Sharing the courtesy were Mr. Brown’s son, Joe; Mr. Pine’s son, Paul; Mr. Beymer’s son, Ronnie, and Mrs. Tindle. Rapid progress is being made in the construction of Mount Ayr’s new swimming pool at the site, one block west of the Ringgold County Hospital. Construction equipment was moved to the site Friday and work was started in earnest the fol-lowing day. Doug Lane announced that he will move his body shop the fi rst of the week from Diagonal to Mount Ayr. The shop will be located in the south Timby building, formerly oc-cupied by the Johnston Motor Co. Cheryl Newton was awarded a secretarial diploma by the C E School of Commerce, Omaha, NE, on March 8 and has accepted a position in the offi ces of the Inde-pendent Metal Products Company. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Newton of Mount Ayr, Miss Newton is a graduate of the Mount Ayr Com-munity high school with the class of

1962. Births reported at Ringgold County Hospital this week were a son, born March 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Grindstaff of Los Angeles, CA; a daughter, born March 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Max Pottorff of Hatfi eld, MO, and a daughter, born March 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dvorsky of Mount Ayr. Obituaries appearing in this issue were Dollie Ann Gilliland Slaughter, Catherine Louise Hoffman Payton and George Leslie Bryant.

Twenty-fi ve Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, April 7, 1988.) Work is underway in earnest on the rebuilding project for Highways 169 and 2 through Mount Ayr, with drainage work underway in this area near Adams and Johnson Used Cars just one example of the work. The surface of the highway has been ground down and the emphasis has been on drainage work to get the road ready for widening, curbing and repaving. The highway is to be kept open throughout the project. A break-in discovered Tuesday morning, April 5, by Challenge Cen-ter staff, when they came to work, revealed the loss of a microwave oven which had been obtained by collecting Campbell’s soup labels, according to Connie Bailey, pro-gram director. Other missing items included a pair of tennis shoes, used by one of the clients in preparation for participation in the Special Olympics April 16; a coffee maker; a quilt on display in the crafts sec-tion of the workshop for mentally retarded adults; a 35 mm camera, and a padlock with key, Bailey said. Also, a large, well-developed plant, that had been sitting on a refrigerator, was missing.

Several Ringgold countians are among the 348 “non-traditional” students seeking education at South-western Community College in Creston. The Ringgold neighbors are taking advantage of SWCC’s vocational and college-prepartory training. Mount Ayr Community elemen-tary school students took to the fl oor of the art room to work on sand painting when artist in the school David Garrison of Burlington visited the school recently. Students drew designs, put rubber cement on the areas they wanted sand to stick and then sprinkled sand from the plastic

containers of brightly colored sand on their sheets to create their own sand paintings. Bobbi and Billi Hunt of Di-agonal and Emily McAlexander of Beaconsfi eld were among the six Southwest Iowa extension area 4-H members named as state 4-H council members following interviews held in Atlantic Friday, March 18. Emily is a senior at Mount Ayr Community high school and in her ninth year in 4-H and Bobbi and Billi are juniors at Diagonal Community schools and in their eighth year in 4-H. Representatives of the Mount Ayr Resource Commission (MARC) held a ribbon cutting ceremony in observance of the opening of a new Mount Ayr business this week. Bill Mayer has opened a used farm equip-ment business along Highway 2 and 169 in the west part of town. MACS junior high science instructor, Mr. Larry Kimble, is among several outstanding Iowa science classroom teachers selected by the University of Iowa to serve as lead teachers for their Chautauqua Program. Kimble, a 1957 graduate of Mount Ayr Community high school, began his teaching career in 1961 at MACS in the junior high science position he presently holds. There will be fi ve Challenge Center clients who will be participat-ing in two events at the district Spe-cial Olympics to be held in Creston Saturday, April 16. Dan Reynolds, Ralph Hampton, Steve Gilbert, Joan Routh and Sharon Lesan will participate in the 800 meter walk race and the softball throw. Obituaries in this week’s issue were Gladys Faye Hendrickson Monday, Hazel Bernice Main Jen-nings, Edward Emmel Minnick and Emma Ursula Held Young.

Ten Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, March 27, 2003.) A second Mount Ayr Community high school teacher has successfully completed the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certifi cation process. Jodie Geist, special education teacher at Mount Ayr Community high school, was recently notifi ed hat she has com-pleted the process to be certifi ed as an Early Childhood Through Young Adulthood Exceptional Needs specialist. Geist is now one of 386 teachers across the state of Iowa who have completed the certifi cation

process. When Dr. Peggy Whitson makes her trip back to Iowa in early April, she will be making several presen-tations in southern Iowa. Whitson, the NASA astronaut who was born in Beaconsfi eld and is a Mount Ayr Community high school graduate, will visit Mount Ayr on Friday, April 4.

Amanda Hynek received a divi-sion I rating at the state individual speech contest at Ballard-Huxley high school in Huxley Saturday. She received division I ratings from all three judges for her acting entry. Two Mount Ayr Community high school drill team members were part of the all-Iowa honor drill team which performed at the Iowa High School Girls Athletic Union girls basketball championships recently. Participating were Rachel Sobotka and Katie Weddle. Laura Vanderfl ught was recog-nized and received a cash bonus for being employed with WoodLink, Ltd. for 10 years. Vice president Ron Rainey was on hand for the celebration. WoodLink, Ltd. will be celebrating 15 years of business this June. A Ringgold county family showed the grand champion Maine-Anjou bull at the 2003 Iowa Beef Expo recently. Craig and Brenda Willis of Diagonal showed the win-ning entry, WSC Bruiser 219M, son of Cigar. The bull was born March 15, 2002 and was shown at 1,132 pounds. A Mount Ayr Community fi fth grader placed fi rst in her age and weight division at the Iowa Girls State Wrestling tournament held in Gilbert Sunday, March 2. Tiffany Wimer won the fi rst place medal at the tournament. Wimer is the daugh-ter of Michael and Shelly Wimer of Mount Ayr and granddaughter of Jerry and Karen Wimer of Mount Ayr and Allen and Shirley Davidson of Grant City, MO. Ringgold County Hospital has recently made several updates in equipment and services in the radiology department including a mammography scanner, CT scanner and nuclear scanning service. Births reported this week were a son, born March 19, to Boyd and Jen-nifer Burn of Bedford; a daughter, born March 22, to Clint and Aleha Whittington, and a son, born Feb. 23, to Bobby Richards and Heather Eggers of Kellerton. Obituaries this week were Keith Burchett, Earl Edwin Gaule and Russell James Sweeney.

“You believe it’s been breached,” said Wise, “but I don’t think anyone here has actually seen or have witness to a breach.” “All I can tell you is what I was told,” said Newton. He repeated his point about the need to put the contract out for bids as soon as possible. Wise said he doubted he would have bids specifi cations ready for council approval by the next board meeting. “You’ll be the fi rst to know when it comes up for bids,” said Mathany. He said the council would examine all cost estimates closely before making any deci-sion.

claims in 2012, plus the city will receive a dividend check for ap-proximately $2,000 based on the zero workmen’s comp claims. At the end of Tyler’s presenta-tion the council voted to accept the insurance package as presented.Sportsmen’s Club Matt Routh and Scott Stutzman, representing the Sportsmen’s Club that oversees and maintains Loch Ayr, appeared before the council to discuss renewal of its contract with the city. They reviewed projects and improvements at the lake and asked about city supplies of cop-per sulfate used to treat algae in the lake as well as gravel supplies to maintain the lake roads, espe-cially on the east side. Routh said the Sportsmen’s Club would like to renew its current contract with the city for another year, and the coun-cil approved the request. In a related matter, the council approved Stutzman’s request to combine lots numbered 13 and 14 into one lot due to the narrow na-ture of the lots.Pump maintenance contract The council approved city su-perintendent Brent Wise’s request to renew the pump maintenance contract with Central Pump and Motor. Wise explained eventually the city crew could perform some of the maintenance included in the contract, but for now he wanted to be sure that all maintenance and repair was covered by a qualifi ed facility. Cost of the contract is $1,450.City superintendent’s report Wise covered a number of items in his report to the council: • He said he had been in contact with road improvement companies to get input for planning upcoming city street projects. He hopes to have bids ready in May. • Wise has set an April 11 meet-ing with City Carton to get their input on a recycling service if the

city should choose to initiate its own garbage collection service. • Wise reported on a drain-age culvert that has popped out of place for the third time. He has contacted Ringgold county engi-neer Zach Gunsolley to enlist his aid in examining water volume is-sues in that area. Wise said repair of the culvert and maintenance of the drainage ditch are only the be-ginning of a more comprehensive ditch renovation project he would like to undertake in the future. • A call for bids to handle city mowing projects will be published this week. Unlike prior bids, the city will create a bid packet that will contain specifi cations to be covered in the bids. Interested bid-ders will be asked to come to city hall to obtain a packet. • The old bathhouse at the Judge Lewis Park swimming pool has been demolished, and Wise said he would contact Jeff Sickels to assist in removal of leftover debris and cleanup at the site. • Wise said he would like to get started with an update and recodifi -cation of the city zoning to provide clarifi cation in that area. • The lift station near the base-ball fi eld may need some attention. Wise said the station handles a tre-mendous amount of water runoff, and a signifi cant rain could create big problems. He added that par-ticular lift station has not been up-dated in some time.Other business In other business the council • signed a professional services agreement with MSA for services related to the new water station project. The agreement covers everything from preparation prior to bid letting to completion of the fi nal project. A public hearing is scheduled for the next council meeting to set bidding dates for publication. • approved a drawdown re-quest from Oakview Construc-tion for the bathhouse/FEMA safe

room project. The request was for $20,892.40. • approved a Class C beer per-mit for Greggo’s restaurant. • approved closing city hall April 17 so that city employees Pam Poore and Amanda Cannon may attend the Data Tech User Group meeting. (A visit from Tim Newton with Divine Waste concerning the on-going discussion of garbage col-lection service is covered in a sep-erate story.)

THOUGHTS& other thingsBY ALAN SMITH

Special Easter season this year This Easter season was very special for the Smiths. After sharing each morning in the wonderful fel-lowship of the Breakfasts with the Master where I had the opportunity to serve as the emcee for the week, we had a houseful, literally for the weekend. Daughter Cara come in late Wednesday night to spend the weekend with us, followed by daughter Erin and her family on Friday night. Also joining us Friday night was niece Kacey Courtney and her two children from Lamoni. Cara brought her rescued dog Lele with her, adding to the excitement. Coming in Saturday were Valle’s mother and brother Joel and many of his family. Then on Sun-day son-in-law Peter’s mother and sisters joined in the fun. It was wall-to-wall people and we wouldn’t have had it any other way. There were 21 of us for Easter dinner. With Cara’s help, we prepared for the onslaught on Friday. Cleaning the house, getting food prepared and fi guring out sleeping arrangements made for a busy time. (The community’s grocery stores were also glad we had the family home, I’m sure. I made so many trips to the store that I felt like a fi xture by the time the weekend was done). Friday night we had a pizza bar. Using fl atbread, each person could make up their own pizzas. This was one of the things Cara had done before and it was a hit. Some of us, including grandson Eli, watched the “Hobbit” in the family room while other activities for the younger kids took place in the living room. Kacey Courtney has a four-year-old daughter Ava and one-year-old son Allister who fi t right in with four-year-old granddaughter Millie and almost two-year-old grand-daughter Esther when it came to keeping the toys fl owing from the toy box window seat. Saturday the rain dampened our plans to take part in the community Easter egg hunt, but when the weather cleared off in the afternoon, I spent a good deal of it at the elementary school playground with Eli, Ava and Millie. Esther came up later to join us after her nap. The crowd had swelled to 18 for supper Saturday night, so Valle pulled out some lasagna we had fro-zen, the girls baked the bread to go with it, and all the fi xings made another great meal. The dog count had risen to three as well, when Joel’s family brought two border collies to add to the mix.

Everyone had a bed, blowup mattress, or in Valle’s mother’s case, a recliner chair to sleep in the for night. Cara’s dog only barked once. That was when Eli and I woke it up when we came into the room where it was on our way to the bathroom early Saturday morning. But it didn’t seem to wake the house. Sunday morning there were Easter baskets be-fore we all went to our church for a 9 a.m. break-fast. Erin and Cara had requested that the breakfast be like those they remembered from years ago, so we had egg casserole, steel cut oatmeal, fruit cups, boiled eggs, muffi ns, juice and milk in a bounteous buffet. We had over 60 people take part in that. Son-in-law Peter preached the Resurrection Sunday sermon at the service, where the rest of his family joined the celebration. Back home, we had Easter dinner together, fea-turing Valle’s ham balls, sweet potatoes and all the fi xings. With the crew that had assembled, we had enough desserts to feed an army to fi nish up the meal. Then we visited the afternoon away while kids and some of us adults got in a nap as well. We had our own family egg hunt for the kids. We caught up on family news and laughed at family misadven-tures. Too soon we pulled out the leftovers and fed everyone before they took their leave going back to their homes. Valle and I spent part of the evening putting things back like they are when just the two of us are home. Soon we will be back in the two-of-us routine. It was sure an exciting time and a wonderful way to celebrate the great gifts the death and resur-rection of Jesus have brought to our lives. And the joy of sharing time with family is hard for me to fully express. We look forward to the next time we can gather.

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In the recent national election, it became painfully clear that His-panics in America are now a force to be reckoned with. Many politi-cians who were less than sensitive to issues of interest to Hispanics paid the price at the polls in No-vember. It might be instructive to realize that the farming industry is very sensitive to the needs of Hispanic farmers. In fact, the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture has a Hispanic American Outreach Program in place under the aegis of the Farm Service Agency (FSA). Since mid-1996, the FSA has made the program an integral part of its efforts to provide better ser-vices for those requiring it. There is an emphasis on the underserved, to help them to conserve land and water and provide loans to new and disadvantaged family-size farmers and ranchers. The FSA also provides educa-tion and assistance to tradition-ally underserved communities through partnerships with com-munity-based organizations and

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farm groups, as well as 1862, 1890 and 1994 land grant universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and other educational institutions for higher learning. Among the con-tinuing benefi ts of the mandated FSA programs are direct pay-

ments, loan opportunities, disaster recovery, commodity services and conservation measures. The USDA pointed out that Hispanic infl uences on American agriculture date back to Span-ish exploration and settlement in Northwestern Mexico, now the American Southwest. The explor-ers and settlers in the region in-troduced horses, cattle and other Spanish agricultural traditions, thereby altering the indigenous farming practices. On their large land grants, Spanish rancheros es-tablished many of the open-range western cattle ranching practices that survived well into the 19th century. In the 20th century, Hispanics

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actual budget balance for any fund or as a total (lines E and F). 5) The taxable valuation list is incorrect based upon input from the county assessor. The petition asks that the adopt-ed budget be reverted to last year’s budget amount to refl ect failure to certify the budget at the public hearing.Other protests reportedly denied The group submitted two other budget protest petitions to the state board of appeals, but both have re-portedly been denied due to lack of qualifi ed signatures. A petition protesting the certifi -

cation of the FY 2014 county bud-get as a whole has reportedly been denied by the state appeals board because of an insuffi cient number of signatures, according to infor-mation communicated to county auditor Amanda Waske. A letter to that effect is currently being sent to all involved parties. A second petition protesting the Sun Valley Lake Rural Improve-ment Zone budget has been report-edly denied due to lack of eligible resident signatures, according to information communicated to Waske. A letter to that effect is cur-rently being sent to all involved parties.

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MARRIAGES • Arthur Lewis Allen of Stuart and Sharon Lynn Norris of Mount Ayr. Married March 23, 2013. Date marriage fi led March 25, 2013.

DISSOLUTIONS • Tiffany A. Hose, petitioner, concerning Christopher Schindler, respondent. Date dissolution fi led March 25, 2013.SIMPLE MISDEMEANOR AND

TRAFFIC CONVICTIONSMarch 21-28, 2012

Kelli Jo Wetzel, Mount Ayr, $220.00, speeding 11-15 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Shannon Richard Barnes, Tin-gley, $87.00, speeding 1-5 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Joni Annette Powers, Blockton, $92.00, speeding 1-5 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Karla Kay Labertew, Indianola, $168.00, speeding 11-15 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Cale Lee Plowman, Clarinda, $108.00, speeding 1-5 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Wayne Brandon Walters, Mount Ayr, $114.00, speeding 6-10 m.p.h. over the speed limit.FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY

MAGISTRATE COURT• March 27 - A judgment was

fi led in magistrate’s court fi nding Ashley Jean Joyce Hinds of Mount Ayr guilty of simple assault. The charge was reduced from domestic abuse assault. Hinds was ordered to pay a fi ne of $100, a surcharge of $35, court costs of $60 and jail fees of $40, all monies payable to the clerk of court. Appeal bond was set at $300 cash only. • March 27 - Three judgments were fi led in magistrate’s court fi nding Justin Michael Elken guilty on two charges of interference with offi cial acts and one charge of driving while license under sus-pension. On the fi rst conviction of inter-ference with offi cial acts, Elken was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay $60 in court costs, $21 in service fees and $1,200 in jail fees, all monies payable to the clerk of court by August 21, 2013. Appeal bond was set at $300 cash only. On the second conviction of interference with offi cial acts, Elken was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay $60 in court costs and $1,200 in jail fees, all monies payable to the clerk of court by August 21, 2013. Appeal bond was set at $300 cash only. On the driving while license under suspension conviction, Elk-en was sentenced to 30 days in jail, given credit for four hours served and ordered to pay a fi ne of $250, a surcharge of $87.50, court costs of $60, service fees of $21 and jail fees of $1,200, all monies payable to the clerk of court by August 21, 2013. Appeal bond was set at $300 cash only.

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• March 27 - A judgment was fi led in district court fi nding Wil-liam Scott Keller of Creston guilty of harassment in the second degree. An additional charge of arson in the second degree was dismissed due to Keller pleading guilty to the harass-

ment charge. Keller was sentenced to one day in jail and given credit for one day served. Keller was ordered to pay a fi ne of $315, a surcharge of $110.25, court costs of $100 and jail fees of $35, all monies payable to the clerk of court. A no contact order was put in place, prohibiting Keller from having any contact with his victims whatsoever for a period of fi ve years. Keller was also ordered to reim-burse the state of Iowa for his court-appointed attorney fees. Appeal bond was fi xed at $1,000. • March 27 - Trial information was fi led in district court charging Ryan Gene Barton of Kellerton of driving while license barred on Feb-ruary 19, 2013. Bond set previously at $2,000 continues and a preliminary hear-ing was cancelled. Barton was or-dered to appear for arraignment at the Ringgold County Courthouse on Monday, April 8, 2013. • March 27 - Trial information was fi led in district court charging Ryan Gene Barton of Kellerton of one count of driving while license barred and one count of OWI on March 2, 2013. Bond set previously at $7,000 continues and a preliminary hearing was cancelled. Barton was ordered to appear for arraignment on Mon-day, April 8, 2013 at the Ringgold County Courthouse. • March 27 - Trial information was fi led in district court charging Levi Alan Huffman of Greenfi eld of one count of theft in the fi rst de-gree and one count of burglary in the third degree. Bond set previously at $10,000 cash only continues and a prelimi-nary hearing was cancelled. Huff-man was ordered to appear for ar-raignment at the Ringgold County Courthouse on Monday, April 8, 2013.

RINGGOLD COUNTYSHERIFF’S LOG

(Call Origination Code: MA = Mount Ayr; KE = Keller-ton; EL = Ellston; TI = Tingley; DI = Diagonal; DE = Delphos; MO = Maloy; BE = Beaconsfi eld; BO = Benton; SC = Shannon City; BL = Blockton; RE = Redding; SV = Sun Valley; CO = In County; OC = Out of County; OS = Out of State)

March 20-27, 2013Wednesday, March 20

1:58 p.m., call for offi cer. (OC) 2:26 p.m., caller needing a re-port. (MA) 4:15 p.m., 911 call. (MA) 4:25 p.m., caller reporting a phone scam. (MA)

Thursday, March 21 1:49 a.m., caller with informa-tion for offi cers. (DI) 7:55 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 9:39 a.m., call for offi cer. (OC) 10:28 a.m., chief deputy return-ing sheriff’s phone call. (MA) 10:45 a.m., offi cer checking in. (MA) 11:34 a.m., call for jail regard-ing messages. (MA) 1:21 p.m., call for offi cers. (MA) 1:31 p.m., caller reporting cows out. (KE) 2:31 p.m., 911 call. (MA) 6:44 p.m., 91 call. (OC) 4:16 p.m., 911 call. (MA) 6:31 p.m., jail call. (OC) 7:03 p.m., strange call. (MA)

Friday, March 22 2:51 a.m., caller needing an ambulance. (MA) 5:59 a.m., pocket call -- no one there. 7:27 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 8:37 a.m., call for dispatch re-garding training. (OC) 9:05 a.m., report of a controlled burn. (CO) 9:24 a.m., ambulance needed in Taylor county. (OC) 10:16 a.m., caller asking about inmate’s bail. (OC) 11:28 a.m., caller with ques-tions about a gun permit.

11:55 a.m., caller needing an offi cer to sign papers. (MA) 12:31 p.m., jail information from Union county. (OC) 12:34 a.m., caller wanting to serve time over the weekend. (OC) 12:57 p.m., 911 call. (OC) 1:25 p.m., call for sheriff. (MA) 1:45 p.m., caller reporting sus-picious vehicle. (MA) 3:08 p.m., caller with informa-tion for child exchange. (MA) 3:24 p.m., caller with informa-tion for offi cer. (MA) 4:35 p.m., call back requested. (OC)

Saturday, March 23 3:51 a.m., report of dogs bark-ing. (KE) 7:39 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 8:20 a.m., people wanting to speak with offi cer to report a fend-er bender. (MA) 9:16 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 10:15 a.m., call for jailer. (OC) 10:24 a.m., caller reporting sto-len items. (KE) 10:33 a.m., caller with ques-tions about visitation. (OC) 10:38 a.m., sheriff checking in. (CO) 10:41 a.m., vehicle lockout. (DI) 11:12 a.m., call for offi cer. (MA) 1:35 p.m., 911 call, report of a fi re. (RE) 1:39 p.m., vehicle lockout. (MA) 3:08 p.m., call for offi cer. (CO) 3:21 p.m., call for offi cer. (OC)

Sunday, March 24 8:44 a.m., wrong number. 9:39 a.m., call for dispatch. (MA) 9:39 a.m., vehicle lockout. (MA) 10:28 a.m., caller needing an ambulance. (MA) 11 a.m., report of baby calves out. (CO) 12:34 p.m., caller asking about rabies tags. (CO) 1:14 p.m., caller with phone number for inmate. (OC) 6:55 p.m., 911 call, request for an ambulance. (MA)

Monday, March 25 7:22 a.m., jail information. (OC) 8:02 a.m., report of an accident and request for ambulance. (CO) 8:11 a.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (KE) 8:11 a.m., caller checking to see if anyone reported an accident. (CO) 8:16 a.m., Union county ambu-lance needing directions. (OC) 8:30 a.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (OC) 8:45 a.m., call back requested. (EL) 9:44 a.m., inmate coming in to serve time. (OC) 10:16 a.m., caller setting up visitation with inmate. (OC) 11 a.m., report of an accident with no injuries. (TI) 11:14 a.m., Union county com-ing in with an inmate. (OC) 12:01 p.m., inmate’s court in-formation. (OC) 12:10 p.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 12:34 p.m., report of cows out. (EL) 12:55 p.m., four-wheeler com-plaint. (KE) 2:10 p.m., civil call. (OC) 2:32 p.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (OC) 3:57 p.m., caller with informa-tion for dispatch. (MA) 4:53 p.m., call for sheriff. (MA) 6:38 p.m., residential alarm go-ing off. (CO) 9:42 p.m., 911 call, caller re-ported hitting a deer. (CO)

Tuesday, March 26 6 a.m., call back requested. (CO) 6:47 a.m., commercial fi re alarm. (MA) 8:39 a.m., Union county bring-ing in inmate. (OC) 9 a.m., vehicle lockout. (MA) 12:15 p.m., call for offi cer. (OC) 12:46 p.m., caller with informa-tion on wanted person. (OC) 1:02 p.m., 911 call. (MA) 1:24 p.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 1:30 p.m., caller reporting a phone scam. (MA) 1:53 p.m., caller with a com-plaint on a salesman. (MA) 8:56 p.m., caller with informa-tion to give to hospital. (MA)

Wednesday, March 27 12:42 a.m., request for an am-bulance. (MA) 8:43 a.m., call for sheriff. (CO) 8:50 a.m., call for jail. (MA) 9:32 a.m., call for offi cer on duty. (MA) 9:43 a.m., call for chief deputy. (MA) 10:10 a.m., call for offi cer. (MA) 10:13 a.m., call for chief depu-ty. (OC) 10:24 a.m., report on a scam. (OC) 10:24 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 10:32 a.m., call for dispatch. (SV) 10:4 a.m., call for dispatch. (MA) 10:56 a.m., call for dispatch re-garding a protective order. (MA) 10:58 a.m., call about jail phone. (CO) 12:37 p.m., caller checking to see if there was a controlled burn notice. (OC) 12:45 p.m., caller reporting sto-len items. (MA) 12:58 p.m., caller wanting to talk to the sheriff. (DI) 1:11 p.m., tornado drill. (MA) 2:53 p.m., 911 call, request for an ambulance. (MA) 4:06 p.m., caller reporting a missing dog. (MA)

COURTHOUSE NEWS Ringgold County Courthouse hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Ringgold county now has a website at www.ringgoldcounty.us. • Assessor: Neil Morgan, 464-3233. • Auditor: Amanda Waske, 464-3239. • Board of Supervisors: David Inloes, chairman, Royce Dredge and Kraig Pennington, members, 464-3244. Supervisors meetings are open to the public and are held in the su-pervisors conference room located on the second fl oor between the clerk of court and auditor’s offi ce. On days the board is not sched-uled to be in offi ce, please direct all inquiries to the auditor’s offi ce. To schedule a meeting time with the supervisors, contact the audi-tor’s offi ce. Regular board meetings are held on Mondays with offi cial public notice of the meeting agen-das posted at the Ringgold county courthouse, Mount Ayr Record-News, Sun Valley Lake and Diago-nal city hall the day before. • Clerk of Court (a state of-fi ce): Jackie Saville, 464-3234; fax: 464-2478. Offi ce hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. The clerk’s offi ce handles ali-mony and child support payments, probates, civil and criminal fi lings, magistrate’s court and records and services of adoptions, conservator-ships, court proceedings, divorces, estates, grand jury, guardianships, judgments, juvenile proceedings, mechanic’s liens, mental health admissions, petit jury, surety company certifi cates, state hospi-tal, traffi c violations, trust funds, trusteeships. Certifi ed copies can be made of above listed records. Court records are also available at www.iowacourts.gov. • County Conservation Board: Kate Zimmerman, phone: 464-2787, email: rangerkate@io-watelecom.net. Please contact for information on rules and regulations, parks, trail ways, camping, shelter reser-vations, environmental education and more. Parks are open March 15 - November 15. Walk-in traffi c is allowed year round. • County Weed Commission-er: Brenda Adams, 641-344-9629. • Development and Tourism: Karen Bender, Coordinator, 464-3704. If anyone has any calendar events, please contact the develop-ment offi ce at 641-464-3704. • E-911 Service Board: Merle Walter, 307 N. Webster St., Mount Ayr, 464-3311. • Emergency Management Agency: Teresa Jackson, Coordi-nator, 109 W. Madison St., Suite 105, cell: 641-202-9671; phone: 464-3344; fax: 464-0663, email: tjackson@iowatelecom.net. Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The tornado sirens in Mount

Ayr will be tested the fi rst Tuesday of each month unless there is se-vere weather. • Engineer: Zach Gunsolley, P.E., 464-3232. 707 South Hender-son Drive. Offi ce hours: Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. • General Relief: Gary Smith, 109 W. Madison St., 464-2397. Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Tuesdays, 8 a.m. - noon; Closed Wednesdays and Fridays. In case of emergency 641-464-2397 or 641-202-1199. • Recorder: Karen Schaefer, 464-3231. Passport applications are taken daily from 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. and noon - 4 p.m. Certifi ed vital records can be obtained from 8 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. The recorder’s offi ce serves as a passport agent. Items needed to apply are: certifi ed copy of birth certifi cate, driver’s license or state issued ID, two-inch square pass-port photos and passport applica-tion (both available at recorder’s offi ce) and fees. Allow four to six weeks from date of application to receive passport book or card from the passport agency. Expedited service is available for an addi-tional fee. Individuals with recent name changes can get their passport book/card updated without a fee within one year of issue. Forms may be obtained at the recorder’s offi ce. For additional information call the recorder’s offi ce or go to www.travel.state.gov/passport. Avoid a $5 penalty by renew-ing boat registrations by April 30, 2013. • Sanitarian: Ringgold County Public Health Agency, 464-0691. Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to

4:30 p.m. • Public Health Agency: 119 S. Fillmore, 464-0691. Hours: Mon-day - Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • Sheriff: Mike Sobotka, Emer-gency Only 911, Non-Emergency (Available 24/7) 464-3921 or 464-2911. New location at the Ringgold County Law Enforcement Center, 801 West South Street. Hours are 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Road Conditions - dial 511 or online at www.Io-waRoadConditions. org. • Treasurer: Debbie Cannon, 464-3230. Applications for 2013 Iowa Property Tax Credit for Elderly and Disabled Taypayers must be sub-mitted by the fi ling date of May 1, 2013. Applications may be picked up in the offi ce or downloaded at www.iowatreasurers.org. Property taxes can be paid on-line at www.iowatreasurers.org with Visa, Master Card and Dis-cover credit cards or e-checks. Payments made in the offi ce may be with cash, checks or with a Mas-ter Card, Visa or Discover credit or debit card. All documents conveying real estate need to have the name and address of the person to whom the property tax statement is to be mailed. Please check renewal notices and tax statements for the correct information. If the infor-mation is wrong, contact the trea-surer’s offi ce. Motorists can now renew mo-tor vehicle registrations online at www.iowatreasurers.org if a re-newal notice is received through the United States Postal Service that contains a personal identifi ca-tion number (PIN). Please be aware that the PIN can only be used one

time. Contact the treasurer’s offi ce for more information. Those with March birth dates are reminded to register their mo-tor vehicles by April 30, 2013. Bring in the renewal statement re-ceived in the mail so renewals can be quickly processed. • Driver’s License Offi ce: Lo-cated in the Treasurer’s Offi ce. Driver’s licenses may be re-newed any time during the period of 30 calendar days before and up to 60 calendar days after the driver’s birth date. The driver’s license station hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Phone 464-3230 with ques-tions. • Veterans Affairs: Gary Smith, 109 W. Madison St., 464-2397. Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Tuesdays, 8 a.m. - noon; Closed Wednesdays and Fridays. In case of emergency 641-464-2397 or 641-202-1199.

Energy service protection ends The Iowa Utilities Board re-minds residential customers pro-tected from energy service dis-connection under Iowa’s winter moratorium law that the morato-rium expired on April 1. This could result in those cus-tomers being disconnected for un-paid bills beginning April 2.

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Aquatic Committee on the progress of the Storm Shelter/Bathhouse/Pool Project

Thank YouI would like to thank my family, US Bank family, friends

and all my customers for a wonderful open house. Thanks to Bernard and Marla for fixing lunch for the family, Alicia, Tracy, David and gang, plus Judi for the “memorable pictures” you helped them gather, Thanks to my family and customers who sent me flowers, gifts, cards and well-wishes for my 40th anniversary at US Bank. All the kind words given to me really made it even more special, and I will never forget them. You are all stuck with me for awhile longer because this was NOT a retirement party. US Bank was just honoring my 40 years.

A special thanks to my Mom for being able to attend and for being there for me.

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…to all who celebrated the 41st anniversary of my 39th birthday with e-messages, cards, calls, gifts and attendance at my party.

And, thanks also to my sister, Sherry and husband, Art, nieces, Allison, Jackie and Kelly and mom, Iris Osborn for hosting.

My 70th birthday was memorable; but, today I am 39 again! Thank you, thank you.

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Thursday, April 4Ringgold County Master Gar-

deners will meet at the Iowa State Extension offi ce at 5 p.m.

Southwest Iowa Shutterbugs will meet at the Creston Pizza Ranch. Chatter and food begins at 6 p.m. Regular meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Sons of the American Legion will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Mount Ayr Legion hall. Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr.

Friday, April 5 Ringgold County Cares. Retirement open house for Glee Mobley at the NRCS offi ce at 1201 E. South Street in Mount Ayr from 1 to 3 p.m.

Saturday, April 6 Ringgold County Cares. Spring rummage and baked goods sale at the Tingley com-munity building from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sunday, April 7 Ringgold County Cares. Gospel sing at United Baptist-Presbyterian Church at 5 p.m. Old-fashioned potluck at the Benton community building from 5 to 7 p.m.

Monday, April 8 Thin Within support group will meet at 5 p.m. at the Lighthouse. Mount Ayr Community School board meets at 6 p.m. in the MACS board room. Jam session at the Mount Ayr American Legion building from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Mount Ayr Golf and Country Club board will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the clubhouse. Sowing in Tears Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. at the Light-house Church, two miles west of Mount Ayr.

Tuesday, April 9Mount Ayr American Legion

Post 172 will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Post. V.F.W. Lamoni Post will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Lamoni Community Center.

Wednesday, April 10$1 sack day every day at the

Ringgold County Neighborhood Center. Public is invited to attend a support group, “Touching Our Grief,” sponsored by HCI Care Services (formerly Hospice of Central Iowa) from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Extension offi ce. For more information, contact Kathy Rinehart, 464-2088. Ringgold Outdoor Alliance monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Iowa Roadhouse.

Thursday, April 11 Mount Ayr Lions will meet at 6 p.m. Board meeting at 5:30 p.m. Waubonsie Memorial Center meeting at 7 p.m. in Benton. Topaz Lodge #438 A.F. & A.M. meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Temple on Main Street in Kellerton. Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr.

Friday, April 12 Mount Ayr Lions Club annual spaghetti supper from 5 to 7 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr.

Saturday, April 13Spring fl ing at the Kellerton

community building from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Benton community building from 5 to 7 p.m. Freewill offering.

Monday, April 15 Card shower for Maxine Nor-ris’ 95th birthday. Cards and cor-respondence may be sent to her at 1715 W. Prairie Street, Creston, IA 50801. Thin Within support group will meet at 5 p.m. at the Lighthouse. Ringgold County Hospital board meets at 5 p.m. in the hos-pital conference room. Mount Ayr City Council will meet at 6 p.m. at Mount Ayr City Hall. Jam session at the Mount Ayr American Legion building from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sowing in Tears Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. at the Light-house Church, two miles west of Mount Ayr.

Tuesday, April 16 Calico Quilters will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon at the Senior Citizens Activity Center, Mount Ayr.

Wednesday, April 17 $1 sack day every day at the Ringgold County Neighborhood Center. Parenting Plus will meet at 5:15 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr. There will be a WIC Clinic at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information contact the MATURA offi ce in Creston at 641-782-8431.

Thursday, April 18 Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr.

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Couple observed birthdays/anniversary Jim and Lora Coulthard of De-catur, IL recently celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary April 1. In addition, they celebrated their 89th birthdays also -- Lora on February 19 and Jim on March 14. Children of the couple are Jim-

mie Lee, Sheila Page, Cherri Smith, George, Rosemarie and Craig. Cards and correspondence may be sent to Jim and Lora at 875 West McKinley, Apt. 112, Decatur, IL 62526.

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April 1 - The month of March did come in like a lion and, with the beautiful Easter Sunday weath-er, went out like a lamb. Waking up to snow on the ground, however, light, did seem like a bad April Fools’ joke. April Fools’ Day, while widely recognized in may countries around the world, in not a national holiday. But is often ob-served as a day when people play jokes or pranks on one another. One notable April Fools’ Day prank was April 1, 1976. Astrono-mer Patrick Moore announced in a BBC interview, that at 9:47 a.m., “a once-in-a-lifetime astronomi-cal event was going to take place. The planet Pluto would pass be-hind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would reduce Earth’s own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange fl oating sensation. The BBC received hun-dreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported she and her 11 friends had risen from their chairs and fl oated around the room.” If you haven’t gotten your taxes done, April 15, the deadline for fi l-ing your federal income tax return, is only 14 days away and that’s no joke. The government reports that many have not done so yet. The 16th amendment, passed in 1913, gave Congress the legal authority to tax all incomes without regard to apportionment. New to the library: In large print Christian fi ction: “Daybreak” by Shelley Shepard Gray. This is book one in The Days of Redemp-tion series. “The Scent of Cherry Blossoms” by Cindy Woodsmall. In large print fi ction: “Until the End of Time” by Danielle Steele. In regular print nonfi ction: “One Simple Act Discovering the Power of Generosity” and “God’s Guest List Welcoming Those Who Infl u-ence Our Lives” by Debbie Ma-comber; “Activate Your Goodness, Transforming The World Through Doing Good” by Shari Arison, and “Priceless Memories” by Bob Barker. In paperback fi ction: “Desert Heat,” “Skeleton Canyon” and “Dead To Rights,” Joanna Brady mysteries by J.A. Jance; “Injus-tice For All,” “Trial By Fury,” “Taking The Fifth” and “Minor In Possession,” J.P. Beaumont mys-teries by J.A. Jance; “Mobbed” and “Wrecked” by Carol Higgins Clark, and “Wicket Appetite” by Janet Evanovich. Paperbacks were donated by Betty Newton.

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Yard and Garden: Pruning strawberries Strawberries are well suited to home gardens. They are hardy, easy to grow and produce a good crop with moderate effort. Early spring is the best time to plant strawberries in Iowa. Gardeners with additional questions can con-tact the horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach at hortline@iastate.edu or 515-294-3108. What would be a good straw-berry variety for the home gar-den? Home gardeners can choose from three types of strawberries. June-bearers are the most widely planted type of strawberry. They produce one crop per year, the majority of fruit ripening in June. A second type of strawberry is the everbearing strawberry. Everbear-ing varieties (cultivars) typically produce fruit in June and late sum-mer/early fall with little fl ower-ing or fruiting in the intervening weeks. Day-neutral cultivars are the third type of strawberry. Day-neutral cultivars fl ower and fruit throughout the growing season if temperatures are moderate. Flower and fruit production stop during hot weather. Suggested June-bearing straw-berry cultivars for Iowa include ‘Earliglow,’ ‘Allstar,’ ‘Honeoye,’ ‘Surecrop,’ ‘Redchief,’ ‘Jewel’ and ‘Kent.’ ‘Fort Laramie’ and ‘Ogallala’ are good everbearing cultivars. ‘Tribute,’ ‘Seascape’ and ‘Albion’ are the best performing day-neutral cultivars. What would be a good planting site for strawberries? When selecting a planting site, choose an area that receives full sun and has a well-drained soil. Planting sites should receive at least six hours of direct sun per day. Leaf and root diseases are often problems in poorly drained, wet soils. Raised beds are a good planting option for gardeners with poorly drained soils. Do not plant in areas that are heavily infested

with perennial weeds. Perennial weeds, such as quackgrass, are extremely diffi cult to control in a strawberry planting. Also, avoid sites where strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes and peppers have been grown within the last two years to prevent possible root disease prob-lems. When is the best time to plant strawberries? Early spring (late March through April) is the best time to plant strawberries in Iowa. Apply and incorporate the recommend-ed type and amount of fertilizer (based on soil test results) into the top six to eight inches of soil prior to planting. If the fertility level of the soil is unknown, apply and in-corporate one pound of 10-10-10 or a similar analysis fertilizer per 100 square feet.

What is the proper way to plant strawberries?

When ready to plant, trim off the older leaves, place the roots of the plants in water for an hour and then plant immediately. Set each plant in the ground so the crown of the plant is even with the soil surface. The type of strawberry deter-mines plant spacing. June-bearing strawberries should be planted 18 to 24 inches apart in rows spaced four feet apart. Runners will devel-op and root freely to form a matted row about two feet wide. Ever-bearing and day-neutral strawber-ries are typically planted in beds consisting of two or three rows. Space rows one foot apart. Plants are spaced one foot apart within the rows. A two-foot-wide path should separate the beds.

Kindergarten registration for the 2013-2014 school year will be held on Monday, April 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the Mount Ayr elementary library. To be eligible for admission to school the next year, a child must be fi ve years old on or before September 15. Information will be sent to parents prior to the meeting which is intended for parents only.

MAC kindergarten registration April 8

Applications for medical fi eld scholarships for students in Di-agonal and Mount Ayr Community schools are being offered by the Ringgold County Hospital Auxil-iary. Application forms are available in the high school guidance offi ces at both schools. Students who will be 2013 graduates or older students who are already enrolled and study in the medical fi eld are eligible for the scholarships. Applications must be returned by April 19 to qualify. For more information, contact the Ringgold County Hospital at 464-3226.

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ISU Extension publication offers vegetable tips Iowa gardeners can select veg-etable varieties that perform well in their gardens with Suggested Vegetable Varieties for the Home Garden (PM 607), an Iowa State University Extension and Outreach publication. The publication, written by Richard Jauron, Cynthia Haynes and Ajay Nair, ISU extension hor-ticulturists, suggests produce vari-eties suited for Iowa gardens based on characteristics such as color, size, texture, fl avor, vigor and ear-ly or late harvest. The publication includes more than 60 crops. “Some people may be over-whelmed by the large number of vegetable varieties when they browse through garden catalogs and may have diffi culty selecting varieties,” said Jauron. “This pub-lication will help gardeners make good choices when purchasing vegetable seeds. To download this publication, visit the Extension Online Store, https://store.extension.iastate.edu/.

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April 1 - This writer hopes all of you had a blessed and glorious Easter. Thursday the Kitchen Band entertained with their music and George Hosfi eld’s humor. Mem-bers of the band were George and Naomi Hosfi eld, Doris Overholser, Harold Brown, Dorothy Clough, Don and Virginia Walden, Norma Webb and Rose James, with Bud Brown on the guitar and Carmene James playing the piano. This group always livens things up a little. Thursday, April 4, the high school swing choir will be per-forming. Director Greg Storhoff has brought his music groups be-fore to entertain and they are a joy to watch and listen too. Liver and onions was on the menu Friday. There are several who come just for that. This writer believes it was the fi rst time that Doug and Robin Schwandt and Bob and Terri Campbell had come to the meal site. All were glad to have them there and hope they come again soon. Everyone can al-ways count on Mary Kathryn Gep-ner to be there on liver and onions day too. Where else can you get a good meal for $3 for anyone over 60 or $5.40 if you are younger than that? Of course, if you are like this writer and liver and onions does not appeal to you, there is a nice hamburger you can have. Rose and Bernard try hard to please and ev-eryone appreciates them. Friday attendees were to wear some kind of an Easter hat for an Easter hat contest. Not many did so however. Winning prizes were Eugene Dillenberg, third; Evelyn Sickels and Joan Harvey tied for second, and Joyce Smith, fi rst. All received Mount Ayr money as fol-lows: Eugene, $5; Evelyn and Joan will share $10, and Joyce Smith, $15. Louise Frost got there too late to model her hat but Joyce shared her prize money with her because she at least made the effort to wear an Easter hat. Due to lack of participation by the attendees in special events, this writer has resigned from being in charge of them. All miss Dave and Darlene Ir-ving and Louise Stamper coming to the meals and hope that some-day they will be well enough to return. Remember Friday, April 12, will be the birthday dinner. Cakes will be provided by ladies of the Community of Faith church. Come on out and enjoy a fried chicken dinner and cake and ice cream. A successful meal site depends on good volunteers. There are many ways you can help that don’t require a lot of effort, such as dec-orating the tables for the appropri-ate season, picking up salt and pep-per shakers, etc. from the tables on Fridays, seeking entertainment for

all to enjoy, helping someone with their tray, pouring coffee and nu-merous other things. Don’t forget, Bernard is the site manager and Rose is the cook. They are not nec-essarily in charge of having to do everything. Won’t you think about volunteering in any way you can? “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” -- Vivian Komori

April 1 - Hope everyone had a great Easter and April Fools’ Day. The weather was decent and this area had a good rain over the weekend. This week looks to be warming up so that we have more moderate temperatures, more like April. There seems to be a lot of ac-tivities coming up in April so the Center wants to make sure every-one knows about them through this article and that you tell your friends. The Center is having its fi rst monthly potluck on Tuesday, April 9. They will start serving at noon and hope that there are plenty of people to join them. Bring along a covered dish for some good food and conversation and for those who want to stay for bingo after-wards, you are welcome to do that. The Center will provide the paper service and beverages. On Monday, April 22, the Cen-ter will have an AARP Safe Driving Course put on by AARP for those ages 50+. For those who are inter-ested in learning how to accom-modate for some of those things that are harder as they age, this is a great course. You may also get a discount on your car insurance as a lot of insurance companies will offer the discount. Those at the Center do know that some compa-nies in this area, namely Hartford, Auto Owners and Farm Bureau, do give discounts but you should con-tact your agent with more details about your insurance company and, if they do offer it, what kind of a discount they give. In order to keep up the discount, you usually have to take the course every three years. The charge for this is only $12 for AARP members and $14 for those who are non-members. A light lunch is provided also. The class will run from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Please call or stop by to sign up for the course. Tuesday, April 30, brings Cari Seddon, dietitian and diabetic educator for the clinics in this area, to the Center at 10 a.m. She will bring information on making healthy choices in their lives. Cari has done several classes at the Ac-tivity Center and is always very informative and fun. The same day as the diabetic educator the Center will also have Care Initiatives with another pizza party, bingo with prizes and lots of

fun. They have had good turnouts for previous parties with Care Ini-tiatives and always enjoy the cook-ies that they drop by every so often. Come and share the day with them learning from the diabetic educator and then enjoying lunch and bingo with prizes in the afternoon. The Weston day trip is proving to be popular. They will be tak-ing a limo bus leaving on Friday, May 24, at 8 a.m. and traveling to Weston, MO. Weston is a great des-tination for a day trip giving them the opportunity to tour the histori-cal town by bus, have a guided tour at the historical museum, tour an antebellum home, have lunch at Main Street Galleria & Tea Room and have time for shopping and a stop at the Farmers House Mar-ket before starting home. The cost for this day trip is only $65 and includes your lunch and costs for the tours. Call or stop by to sign up and pay your $65 as soon as pos-sible so they can plan ahead for the day. Those at the Center are always trying to think of new programs and activities they can do. If you think of something that might be of interest to others, let them know. In the meantime, stop by and have a cup of coffee with them any time.

March 25 (delayed) - Has the spring sprung since the fi rst day of spring? We’ve had snow fl urries, snow squalls and freezing temper-atures, along with a three-to-four-inch snow Saturday evening. News on the agenda is the forthcoming wedding of Levi Mast (Sammy and Alma) and Ruby Bontrager (Roy and Cora). Their special day is scheduled for April 24. Jerry Bontrager, 13, (Felty and Lizzie) ended up with a broken leg Friday evening when the horse he was riding slipped on the blacktop road and fell on his leg. He was taken to Ringgold County Hospital and from there carted on to a Des Moines hospital. He came home Saturday evening but had a restless night with ongoing pain. Timber View school had two days with two smiling young boys, Nelson Roy Troyer (Reuben and Ada), their youngest, and Virgil Troyer (Nelson and Lucy) their oldest child. The fl u has been rampant, tak-ing teachers and school children down one after the other, in differ-ent ways. Some have a bad head-ache and fever or cough or just hurting all over, bones and joints. How good it feels to fell better again.

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April 1 - After several days of beautiful spring-like weather and grass turning green, it got nipped in the bud again Sunday night when the temperature dropped 35 degrees, from a high of 60 degrees to 25 degrees Monday morning, along with a skiff of snow. Paul and Emma Troyer have an appointment with an eye special-ist in Des Moines early Monday morning to have surgery done on daughter Katie Maries to correct her crossed eyes. Levi and Rosa went to Wayne county, Ohio to attend the funeral of Levi’s sister, Mattie, Mrs. Ora Mast. Lester Beechy went to Bloom-fi eld to travel with siblings to northern Indiana to attend the fu-neral of an uncle, Ralph Schrock. Jonas Masts and son Raymond’s and family of Jamesport, MO spent Saturday with the Reuben Troyer family. The men worked on en-closing the cold farm greenhouse. Felty Bontragers have an invita-tion to a wedding in Wadena, MN that they plan to attend this week, assume April 4.

April 4 - Dorothy Barber’s Eas-ter day dinner guests were Kelly, Tony and Aaron Roach of Hel-ena, MO and Brandon Thomas of Maryville, MO. Afternoon guests were Kathy Quick, Brian Quick of Huxley and Abby and Josh Jensen of Ruthven. Mary and Morris Carpenter spent Thursday at Donna Ross’s in Des Moines. June and Vance Combs of Cape Girardeau, MO were Monday af-ternoon visitors of Helen Combs. Saturday afternoon Helen attended a party celebrating Cathy Ward’s 70th birthday in Mount Ayr. Gladys Jones attended Holy Week services Wednesday, Thurs-day and Friday at the United Meth-odist Church in Grant City, MO. She went to the prayer service at the Assembly of God church Wednesday morning. Friday Glad-ys, Helen Harris and Brent Harris went to Maryville, MO and had lunch at the Joy Wok restaurant. Sunday Gladys went to the sunrise service at the United Methodist Church, church at the Assembly of God and then she and Helen Har-ris went to Maryville, MO and had lunch at the Joy Wok restaurant. Ginny Quick, Rebecca Smith and Carrie Main went to Saint Jo-seph, MO Friday. Rebecca, Cliff, Bryson and Kaden Smith were weekend guests at Ginny and Bill Quick’s. They all went to Kenny and Berta Quick’s for Easter din-ner Sunday.

The Quick family gathered at Kenny and Berta Quick’s for Eas-ter dinner Sunday. Austin Quick and Cacey Wilson were afternoon visitors of Quicks. Brian Quick and Abby and Josh Jensen of Ruthven were weekend visitors at Kathy and Dan Quick’s. Easter day dinner guests at Cin-dy and Dick Snethen’s were Ra-mona Brand, Leigh Ann, Jim and Deva Freeman and Travis, Julie, Tanner and Jaynee Snethen. Joe, Jess, Rori, Vince and Ellie Snethen were Saturday visitors. Betty and J.W. Robertson, Wanda and Doug Hosfi eld, Cass Hosfi eld and Annie Uhlenkamp all went to Albany, MO Saturday eve-ning for supper at Poppa’s restau-rant. Gladys Jones visited at Betty and J.W.’s Thursday. Cindy Snethen took Max Wim-er, Sawyer Wimer and Lizzie Brott to the 4-H Easter party Saturday. Lew Knapp visited at Snethens’ Sunday. Vickie, Dan and Jennifer Smith of Council Bluffs visited Annabel Walkup Saturday. Annabel went to NCP club Thursday at Judy King’s in Blockton. Caitlyn Bainum was a dinner guest at Bobbi and Michael Bai-num’s Easter Sunday. The 4-H Easter party Satur-day was well attended with Kayla Hanawalt and Tucker Darrah win-ning the door prizes.

April 1 - Eugene McAlexander reported March weather totals as follows: a high of 67 degrees on March 16 and a low of 12 degrees on March 21. Snow measurement was four inches and with rain and melted snow, there were 1.34 liq-uid inches. Elsa Schmidt of Iowa City and her children, Greta and Quinn, en-joyed dinner with her parents, Eu-gene and Esther McAlexander. In the afternoon all pitched in to plant Eugene and Esther’s garden with potatoes, peas, onions, spinach, beets, radishes and lettuce. It’s good to look forward to summer and homegrown veggies. Elaine and Russ Baughman vis-ited Sunday afternoon in the home of Elaine’s parents, Eugene and Esther McAlexander. Wednesday Deb VanHorn of Bloomfi eld also visited her parents. Celebrating Easter Sunday with Rex and Ann Walters were their daughter, Janell Davison, and her children, Cooper, Drake and Shae. Several members of Beacons-fi eld United Methodist Church joined the Kellerton United Meth-odist Church in celebrating Easter Sunday at the Kellerton church. David and Michelle Mohler and

April Mohler of Lamoni, Amy and Ethan Meckling of Des Moines and Brent Wilson of Johnston cel-ebrated Easter with a cooperative dinner with Dorine Jones. Phyllis Manning spent a few days with her friend, Jo Sandquist of Johnston. They had a great time shopping, visiting and seeing a movie.

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April 1 - The community was saddened to hear of the death of longtime resident, Max Greimann, this past week. Deepest sympathy is extended to family and friends. Saturday, April 13, the SIPR committee is having a “Spring Fling” at the community center. They have several vendors and crafters signed up. You may fi nd some wonderful gifts and bargains for Mother’s Day or for yourself. Tables rent for $12. They will be open from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. There will be lunch available by SIPR. For more information, please contact Barb Gregg 641-234-0139 or Deanna Adams 641-344-7637. Hope to see you there. Kay Doolittle and Judy Doolit-tle were Des Moines shoppers Monday afternoon and joined some of the Church family at the Hope Mission. Terri Van Gelder, Cathy Reed and Judy Doolittle went to Dunlap. Friday they went to a cousin’s funeral. Judy Doolittle met Jeff and Teena Hash and Wes and Amber Richards, Emma and Jeffery in Lamoni Friday night for pizza. Saturday Judy Doolittle and Cortlynn Holmes had breakfast and Cortlynn enjoyed the Easter egg hunt at the Kellerton commu-nity building. Judy Doolittle, Teena Hash and Amber, Emma and Jef-fery Richards visited with Loreen Reed at Mount Ayr Health Care Saturday afternoon. Judy Doolittle had Easter dinner with the Rod and Deb Holmes family Sunday. Harold, Linda and Cherie Fo-land visited with Sandy Campbell Sunday. They all attended church and Linda sang a solo. After church all went to Bethany, MO to Toot-Toot’s for lunch.

Myron and Shirley Ingram en-joyed the company of their three children; Teresa Sickels and friend John of Saint Charles, MO; Tam-era Rustin and youngest son Luke of West Des Moines, and Michael Ingram and wife Connie of Rob-bins and their granddaughter, Lily Sickels. They all went to church at Trinity Church by Decatur. There was a very large crowd, being Eas-ter Sunday. They had an Easter sunrise service and following there was an Easter breakfast provided by men of the church. Then they had regular church service. After church all went to Quilt Country in Lamoni for a very good lunch. Colleen and Ed Minnick were Easter dinner guests of Ron and Betty Conley. Other guests of the Conleys included Darlene Minn-ick, Kylee, Cory, Payton and Pres-ton Fleharty and Nicole Minnick. They enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in the afternoon and had an early cel-ebration of Colleen’s birthday with cake and ice cream. Marlene Greimann enjoyed Easter with her daughter, Tracey Goddard, and family of Chariton. Larry McAtee returned home from the Decatur County Hospital this week and is doing well since his return. Helen McMorris’ daughter, Monica Zavada, and family are visiting with Helen this week. Her grandson, David Noonan, and sons Ian and Joshua visited Monday. Rod and Connie Smith and their family enjoyed an Easter dinner at the community center Sunday after church. Easter dinner was enjoyed by the family of Betty Stuart Saturday. Diane and Richard Servetti, Donna Norman and Marilyn Parkhurst and family were present.

Jan Homes and Kathryn Still went to Lamoni Wednesday eve-ning for supper. Thursday evening Kathryn Still, Ronche and Katie Still, Doug and Gina Still, Brad and Christy Still, Sharon Hubbard and Cassie Still went to the Comedy Club to see comedienne Etta May. They went to Granite City Brewery afterward to eat. This was a birth-day celebration for several of them. Everyone had a great time. Jan and Kathryn went to Creston shop-ping Friday and had lunch at Jade Gardens. Cassie Still was an over-night guest of her Grandma Kathy and Aunt Jan Friday night. Cassie helped her grandma and the SIPR committee with the breakfast and Easter egg hunt Saturday. The sis-ters went to Lamoni to Quilt Coun-try Sunday after church for lunch.

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Thank You……to CGI Foods, Hy-Vee, Mount

Ayr Volunteer Fire Department, all the leaders and parents and everyone who came out and ate to support us.

Boy Scout Troop 39

Congratulations to the Spring 2013 HELP Grant Cycle Recipients!

“Our mission is to serve the people of Ringgold County by providing recreational activities and educational opportunities in a safe environment”

Diagonal Community School 5th Grade $100 Diagonal Community School Preschool $225 Diagonal Community School $1000 Diagonal Community School Art Dept. $230Diagonal Community School 4th & 5th Grade $150 Diagonal Community School 4th-8th Grade $150Diagonal Community School English $300 Lions Club LaborMt. Ayr Conservation Board $868.20Mt. Ayr Community School Kindergarten $515Mount Ayr Community School 4th Grade $400 Mount Ayr Community School Elem. Art $99 Mount Ayr Community School 2nd Grade $274.77 Mount Ayr Community School Elem. $268.90 Mount Ayr Community School 4th Grade $400 Mount Ayr Community Communication Class $300Mount Ayr AG Program $815Mount Ayr Public Library $500 Mount Ayr Community Schools $1000 Mount Ayr Aquatic Center $426.66

We appreciate all the twenty-three applications we received. Unfortunately, we were only able to invest in about half of the $20,000 worth of requests. Our next granting cycle will be Fall 2013.

If you have any questions about the grants, please contact the VP of Grants Macy Larsen at macy.larsen@mtayrschools.org

for more information or contact the offices of the Diagonal or Mount Ayr Community Schools.

Kid Wind winnersThis group of Mount Ayr elementary students placed fi rst at the Kid Wind Challenge held at Southwestern Community College in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. They include (L-R) Caroline McAlexander, Grant An-derson, Jordan McAlexander, Jaycee Knight and Cayden Lambert. Each group of students built a wind turbine and prepared a presentation. They received a trophy and $100 for the TAG program. A total of 37 students from Mount Ayr Elementary competed in the event.

Clearfi eld takes fi rst steps toward dissolution at recent board meeting The Clearfi eld board of educa-tion appointed members to a dis-solution commission and approved the 2013-2014 budget at its regular meeting Tuesday, March 19.

Dissolution commission With no adjoining school dis-trict expressing an interest in re-organizing with the Clearfi eld dis-trict, the board of directors were forced to proceed with plans for dissolution of the district follow-ing the 2013-2014 school year. The fi rst step in the that process is the appointment of district pa-trons to a dissolution commission. Named to the commission are Gina Knox, Doug England, Sara Deskin, Michele Sobotka, Becky Kerns, Bob Cameron and Patty Parrish, with Mike Kemery as al-ternate.

Board members considered geographic location of a number of registered voters in the Clearfi eld school district prior to appointing residents to serve on the commis-sion.

Budget hearing, approval The regular board meeting re-cessed to hold the public hearing on the proposed 2013-2014 district budget. Superintendent Joe Drake explained with declining enroll-ment and expenses remaining the same or increasing, the district needs to increase the case reserve levy as much as possible for cash fl ow purposes. He also talked about the possibility of offering an early retirement plan for staff members. During discussion as part of the hearing, Ron Brown asked who determines the future of the school

building following dissolution. Drake said he had contacted Rick Engle, the district’s legal counsel, who stated the dissolution com-mission will make recommenda-tions to the school board in regard to assets and liabilities of the dis-trict. The board will make the fi nal decision on the sale or disposal of district property. Following the public hearing, the board voted to approve the 2013-2014 budget as presented. The budget carries a general fund levy of $21.02978 per $1,000 valuation, an instructional support levy at $1.1185, management fund levy at $1.33275, regular plant and equipment levy at $.33 and an in-structional support income surtax rate of $.10. The board then approved the following resolution: the Board of

Directors of Clearfi eld Community School District will levy propertytax for fi scal year 2013-14 for the regular program budget adjustment as allowed under section 257.14, Code of Iowa, in the amount of $43,798.00.

Other business The board approved the school calendar for the 2013-2014 school year. After a number of requests for an “open gym” on Saturdays, the board agreed to follow the existing building use policy, which states “Activities in the school district buildings and sites shall be super-vised by an employee of the school district or a school board member unless special prior arrangements are made with the superintendent and approved by the board.”

Ringgold County SAFE (Sub-stance Abuse Free Environments) is planning a mock teenage party awareness project Friday, April 5 from 5-7 p.m. at 303 W. Madison Street in Mount Ayr. A “Mock” Teen Party House is a re-enactment of a typical teen party and what can happen dur-ing that party. With a variety of teen party scenarios, parents and other adults will be able to tour the

house and see what can happen on a party night in the life of a teenag-er. Participants must be 21 to take the tour. Some scenarios will include: al-cohol poisoning, drinking games, a prescription drug abuse “pharming party,” someone passed out in the bathroom and the teens are afraid to call 911, “Triple C” – abuse of cough medicine and drinking and

driving. Underage alcohol use is more likely to kill young people than all other illegal drugs combined. Kids are also beginning to abuse alcohol younger than you ever thought pos-sible: nearly 20 percent of eighth graders have reported being drunk, according to a survey conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Ringgold SAFE plans mock party

SCICF grant to Senior CenterThe Ringgold County–South Central Iowa Community Foundation board recently held a contest for a $1,000 donation to an endowment fund. Dorothy Barber of Redding was drawn as the lucky winner and chose the Senior Center’s endowment fund to receive the $1,000 grant. Shown at the recent grant presentation are (L-R) Clint Spurrier and Michell Ricker, Ringgold-SCICF board members; Janet Hogue, Senior Center director; Dor-othy Barber, contest winner; Kevin Creveling, Barb Stephens and Sue Beck, Ringgold-SCICF board members.

The Graceland University Chamber Singers and Concert Choir partner with the Lamoni Community of Christ Choir to perform a free concert, “Choral Reunion,” Sunday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Carol Hall on the Lamoni campus. The Lamoni Community of Christ Choir will be directed by Dr. Don Breshears. Dr. Leonardo Lebas, Graceland’s Director of Choral Activities, will direct the Graceland choirs. The Graceland choirs will preview selections to be performed at the Community of Christ World Conference, April 13-18, in Independence, MO. Dr. Tom Morain will accompany the choirs for a few movements from Handel’s Messiah. “This will be a very exciting performance,” said Lebas. “It’s a privilege to host a fi ne choral ensemble like the Community of Christ Choir. We look forward to sharing this vibrant evening of mu-sical fellowship and sacred music with the community.”

Graceland offers choir concert

Northwest now part of the ICAN network Northwest Missouri State Uni-versity is partnering with the Iowa College Access Network (ICAN) to bring comprehensive college and career readiness programming and resources to students and par-ents in communities across Iowa, and to support initiatives around the state that support economic growth through increased train-ing and education of Iowa’s future workforce. “ICAN does a great job of mak-ing every middle and high school student in Iowa aware of career and higher education opportuni-ties, and we are proud to be a part-ner in this important work,” says Larry Mannasmith, an admissions representative at Northwest. “Our support will enable students – and their parents – to have access to critical college planning and fi nan-cial aid information and resources, along with expert guidance and support, leading to positive student outcomes.” The ICAN Partnership Program is open to any business, organiza-tion or institution with the desire to support long-term economic growth and success for Iowa com-munities and citizens. Northwest has joined to support ICAN’s work in career and college readiness programming, which is outlined in the ICAN College Access Power

Plan, a suite of programs and ser-vices designed to help families better understand college and ca-reer planning, how to successfully navigate paying for college, and choosing both a college and major that are the right fi t. “ICAN is proud to partner with Northwest Missouri State University in advancing career and college access readiness pro-gramming throughout the state of Iowa,” said Rob Miller, executive director of ICAN. “The College Access Power Plan is designed to guide students beginning in mid-dle school and throughout high school with the rights tips and advice for each level, ensuring that every student is prepared for the level they are in, as well as for the future steps they will need to take to be successful both in col-lege and a career. ICAN offers the most complete, step-by-step guide for parents and students preparing for life after high school. With the wonderful support from Northwest Missouri State University, ICAN is able to deliver the College Access Power Plan to communities across Iowa at no cost to the school, its students, or families.” The ICAN College Access Power Plan includes age-appropri-ate in-person presentations, printed guidebooks, access to a compre-

hensive website, electronic news-letters containing monthly planning tips and reminders for students and parents as they journey through high school and college, and un-limited access to ICAN staff, via phone or in person, for one-on-one assistance. ICAN’s programs and services are developed and presented by ICAN’s highly trained represen-tatives on topics such as high school planning, college and ca-reer planning, fi nancial literacy, successful college transitions and fi nancial aid. ICAN serves more than 280,000 students and parents annually. Students are encouraged to check with their high school counseling offi ces for the dates,

times and locations of ICAN pre-sentations in their area or visit www.ICANsucceed.org/calendar. Students can also contact ICAN toll-free at 877.272.4692, emailing ICAN@ICANsucceed.org or visit-ing www.icansucceed.org.

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Saturday, April 1310 a.m. - 4 p.m.

DESCRIPTION: 2 bedrooms, kitchen/dining room/living room/2 bathrooms, attached single-door garage with door opener, 8’ x 12’ utility shed in backyard, new roof in 2010, new paint in 2011, porch swing, hot water heat, window AC.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: The North 90 feet of the South 248 feet of the West 143.55 feet of Lot 3 of the Irregular Survey of the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NE 1/4 SE 1/4) of Section 1, Township 68 North Range 30 West of the 5th P.M., Ringgold County, Iowa.

TERMS: 20% down day of sale. Balance due upon delivery of abstract and deed.

Lola Peppmeier and Sons, OwnersAUCTONEERS: Jim Smith, Beaconsfield, Iowa • Ph. 641-783-2687

Curt Pierschbacher, KellertonCLERKS: Mary Ann Smith, Beverly McGinnis

Real Estate and HouseholdAUCTION

103 Sunset Lane, Mount Ayr, Iowa (4 blocks west of northwest corner of the the square, north on Sunset).

Saturday, April 20, 2013• Household goods start at 11 a.m.

(Look for a more complete listing of household goods in an ad in the April 11, 2013 issue.)• Real estate sells at 1 p.m.

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SEMI AND SEMI-TRAILERS* 1989 International Day Cab, Twin Screw 9 Speed, 80% Rubber, Cummings Motor, New DOT Inspection* 1970 C70 Grain Truck, Tandem Axle w/Detroit Diesel 5 & 2 Transmission, 20 ft. Steel Box w/Roll Top* 1988 Timpte Grain Trailer, 42 ft. long, 66 inch sides, Mini Air ride, 80% Rubber and Brakes* 1987 Merritt Cattle Pot with Removable Hog Deck, good rubber, spring ride, aluminum wheels, 48 ft. long 96 inch wide* PENDING: 1994 Wilson Cattle Trailer, 50 ft. long, 102 inches wide, tires & brakes 80%, spring ride

HAY EQUIPMENT* Vermeer Super J Baler w/Net Wrap and String Tie w/Monitor* Vermeer J Baler, String Tie w/No Monitor* 1995 John Deere 535 w/Net Wrap and String Tie, hydraulic green pickup, extra belts and monitor, “nice baler”* New Holland Side Delivery Rake

MISC. FARM EQUIPMENT* 2 Like New 500 Gal. Fuel Barrels w/Electric Pumps

Will be 2 hay racks of misc. farm hand tools

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TRAILERS* 1996 Diamond D 20H Stock Trailer* 2001 Diamond D 20H Stock Trailer* 2x16 ft. Cargo Trailers, like new* Gooseneck 6 Bale Trailer

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We will sell the following described property at public auction at the farm located at 2966 U.S. Highway 169, Redding, Iowa (3 miles east of Redding, Iowa on Highway 169).

Saturday, April 6, 201311 a.m.

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A more complete listing may be foundon the ad in the Thursday, March 28, 2013

issue of the Mount Ayr Record-News.TERMS: Cash or good check. Nothing removed until

settled for. Not responsible in case of accident or theft. All statements made sale day take precedence over any printed material.

Marilyn and Weldon Whitenack, Owners

AUCTIONEERS: Jim Smith, Beaconsfield, Iowa • Ph. 641-783-2687Curt Pierschbacher, Kellerton, Iowa

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Consigned for the Tuesday, April 9 Sale: COINS: 1935 Walking Liberty 1/2 dollar, 1921 Morgan silver dollar, (2) 1922 Peace silver dollars, 1923 Peace silver dollar, 1988 US Olympic silver dollar, Justin silver ruby/horsehead trophy buckle, Australian silver coin bracelet, Indianhead silver dollar 1 Troy oz. .999 pure, 1989 Peace silver dollar, (2) 1921 Morgan silver dollars, (2) 1922 Peace silver dollars, (2) 1923 Peace silver dollars, (4) $1 Barr bills, $2 bill, (2) mercury dimes, (1) unknown, Buffalo nickel.

Additional recent constructionTwo county construction projects were inadvertently omitted from the Home and Building section published last week in the Record-News. Pictured below are two units of Van Buren Square at 801 and 803 East Van Buren Street in Mount Ayr. They are being built by Van Buren Square, LLC.

BY MIKE AVITT This week’s photo appears in the November 27, 1894 edition of the Twice-A-Week News and gives some specifi c information that I did not previously have. In the September 13, 2012 “Snapshots of History,” I wrote about this build-ing being on the southwest corner of the Mount Ayr square and that it burned November 14, 1900. But now I have a better account of the bank’s beginning. In the 1870s, C. B. Morris and George Allyn bought the insur-ance business of Ithamar Beall. In 1880, Morris and Allyn started the Mount Ayr Bank which at that time was located on the north side of the Mount Ayr square. Mr. Mor-ris retired in 1885 and George Al-lyn brought his brother John into the fi rm as assistant cashier and partner. In April of 1890, the bank building burned and business was conducted in the courthouse un-til April of 1891 when the Mount Ayr Bank moved into its new brick

building. The $10,000 structure was built jointly with merchant A. O. Ingram. On December 2, 1899, A. O. Ingram’s Cash Store failed, be-ing, at the time, the biggest bank-ruptcy in Ringgold county history. The building burned less than a year later, but, for the most part, the 1890s were a robust period for Ringgold county. As I have said, I’ve been perus-ing Twice-A-Week News newspa-pers from the 1890s and have had some interesting revelations about the 1890s. The fi rst telephone ser-vice was in Mount Ayr in 1895. By 1900, telephone lines stretched all over Ringgold county, even into rural areas. Water service and elec-tricity were much slower being implemented in the county. Photography became extremely popular in the 1890s. Mount Ayr usually had two photographers op-erating studios, but it was common for these lensmen to set up tents or

Snapshots of History

The dry goods store of A. O. Ingram and the Mount Ayr Bank owned by Allyn Bros. in 1894.

wagons in small towns for two or three days. This often happened for special events like graduation exercises or reunions. This week’s picture came from the Elite Stu-dio of J. A. McClanahan in Mount Ayr. Another interesting piece of history was small towns were more successful securing doctors than barbers. Doctors would usu-ally stay in one spot for fi ve years or more, but barbers were gone in six months. Knowlton, Benton and Maloy would often lament in their “Personals” column about the lack of a barber in their town. I believe Maloy and Beaconsfi eld were the towns that failed to secure long-term doctors in the 1890s. Dr. Turner, the Benton physician, spent a great deal of time in Maloy as the two towns were close and on the same railroad line. Every town in Ringgold county had at least one bank in the 1890s except one --- Delphos.

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The Ringgold county board of supervisors met in regular session Monday, April 1. The board accepted the bid from Tanner Rinehart to mow eight out-lying sites belonging to the county. The winning bid was for $190 per time for all eight sites. Other bids came from Greg Cannon for $390 per time and from Mark Budach for $225 per time. The supervisors voted to use the services of the state auditor’s offi ce instead of a private auditing fi rm to conduct the 2013 county audit. They also voted to rescind the prior appointment of Debra Clark to the board of the Southern Iowa Regional Housing Authority and appoint Patty Parrish to that posi-tion instead. The board transferred contract renewal discussions for Vic Lil-lienthal and Lizzie Hanawalt to the authority of county engineer Zach Gunsolley. Both are employed in the county engineer’s offi ce. Chris Doster reported wellness

Supervisors hold meetingsigns had been posted around the courthouse sidewalk to designate a walking track. Five laps around the courthouse is equal to one mile. The supervisors also approved the formation of a wellness program for employees. County resident R.C. Rush met with the board to discuss the possibility of landowners taking responsbility for maintenance of road ditches on their property. Much discussion surrounded pos-sible liability issues as well as the

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Iowa farmers intend to plant crops in similar numbers to last year, according to the annaul Pro-spective Plantings report from the USDA. Iowa farmers intend to plant 14.2 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2013. This is un-changed from 2012 and if realized, would be 200,000 acres below the record acreage planted in 1981. Producers in Iowa intend to plant 9.4 million acres of soybeans in Iowa this year, up slightly from2012. Iowa farmers intend to plant 120,000 acres of oats. This is 10,000 acres less than producers planted in 2012. Iowa farmers intend to harvest 1.10 million acres of hay in 2013. If realized, it would be 40,000 acres below the record low acreage harvested in 2011 and 2012.United States prospects Corn growers intend to plant 97.3 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2013, up slightly from last year and six percent higher than in 2011. If realized, this will represent the highest planted acre-age in the United States since 1936 when an estimated 102 million acres were planted. Soybean planted area for 2013 is estimated at 77.1 million acres, down slightly from last year but the fourth highest on record, if realized. Compared with 2012, planted area is down across the Great Plains with the exception of North Dakota. Nebraska and Min-

Iowa farmers to plant similar amount of acres this year

nesota are expecting the largest declines compared with last year, while Illinois and North Dakota are expecting the largest increases. All wheat planted area for 2013 is estimated at 56.4 million acres, up one percent from 2012. The 2013 winter wheat planted area, at 42.0 million acres, is two percent above last year and up slightly from the previous estimate. Of this total, about 28.9 million acres are hard red winter, 9.67 million acres are soft red winter and 3.39 million acres are white winter. Area planted to other spring wheat for 2013 is expected to total 12.7 million acres, up three per-cent from 2012. Of this total, about 12.1 million acres are hard red spring wheat. The intended Durum planted area for 2013 is estimated at 1.75 million acres, down 18 per-cent from the previous year. The annual Prospective Plant-ings report published by USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service is based on the voluntary responses from nearly 2,000 Iowa producers and farmers nationwide. Data collection began February 27, with fi nal interviews completed on March 19. This report provides an indication of the acres farmers in-tend to plant as of March 1. Actual plantings will depend greatly upon weather, economic conditions and the availability of production in-puts at the time producers must make their fi nal planting deci-sions.

Grain stored in Iowa facilities is down across the board, accord-ing to a report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Iowa corn stocks in all positions on March 1 totaled 1.05 billion bushels, 18 percent less than last year and the lowest March 1 stocks since 1998. Of the total stocks, 53 percent were stored on-farm. The December 2012 - February 2013 report indicated disappearance totaled 510 million bushels, 23 percent less than the 666 million bushels used during the same pe-riod last year. Iowa soybeans stored in all positions on March 1 totaled 208

Grain stored in Iowa down, says USDA

million bushels, down 30 percent from the 295 million bushels on hand March 1, 2012. Of the total stocks, 43 percent were stored on-farm. Indicated disappearance for the December 2012 - February 2013 period was 130 million bush-els, two percent more than the 128 million bushels used during the same quarter last year. Iowa oat stocks stored in all positions on March 1 totaled 2.78 million bushels, down 64 percent from the 7.8 million bushels on hand March 1, 2012. Of the total stocks, 36 percent were stored on-farm.

Spring tillage is a tradition steeped deeply in American agri-culture. But more and more farm-ers are realizing that this iconic tradition is costing them – in more ways than one. Tillage comes at a high price. There are the known expenses like increased fuel and labor costs. But according to Rick Bednarek, state soil scientist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Des Moines, the bigger, long-term cost may be the loss of soil health and function – resulting in lower yields, higher input costs and re-duced drought resiliency for Iowa farms. “Tillage is incredibly destruc-tive to the soil structure and to the soil ecosystem,” Bednarek said. “Healthy soil is 50 percent air and water – which is made possible by the pore space in the soil – and 50 percent mineral and organic matter. But tillage collapses and destroys that structure, making the soil vulnerable to erosion and compaction,” he said. The possibility of another dry year should also have produc-ers rethinking their use of till-age, Bednarek said. “Because it destroys organic matter and soil structure, tillage actually reduces the soil’s infi ltration capacity,” he said. “Studies have shown that each tillage pass can release a half-inch of soil moisture from each acre. Tillage tends to limit the availability of water in the soil, and

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that could prove very costly during those long, summer dry spells.” Fortunately, more and more producers in Iowa are farming with systems to build soil health, Bednarek said. “Using a suite of conservation practices, like no-till, nutrient management and cover crops,” he said, “they’re keeping living plants in the soil as long as possible and they’re keeping the soil surface covered with residue year round.” And according to Bednarek, the benefi ts of improved soil health extend beyond the farm. “Produc-ers who improve the health of their soil are also increasing its water-holding capacity, which reduces runoff that can cause fl ooding. Im-proved infi ltration keeps nutrients and sediment from being carried off-site into nearby lakes, rivers, and streams,” he said. Producers interested in learning more about the basics and benefi ts of soil health or receiving tech-nical and fi nancial assistance to implement a soil health manage-ment system, please contact their local NRCS offi ce. Additional soil health information is available at www.nrcs.usda.gov.

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The Raider track team fi nished third in the Husky Invitational at Winterset Friday, March 29 against some stiff comeptition. The weather cooperated for this early meet, and several Raiders turned in solid performances for the night. Senior Braydee Poore started things off, earning fi rst place by clearing 6’ 2” in the high jump. The other fi rst-place fi nish of the night came in the 4x100 with a time of 45:14. The 4x100 team consisted of Grant Staats, Jacob Sobotka, Erik Freed and Cody Stackhouse. “I couldn’t be happier with the level of competition as we kicked off this season,” said coach Brad Elliott. “Many of our athletes set personal bests at this meet, despite poor training conditions as we pre-pared.”

Team Scores1) Pella - 1502) Norwalk - 723) Mount Ayr -664) Earlham - 515) Greene County- 476) Creston - 427) Adel-DeSoto-Minburn - 348) Clarke - 299) Martensdale-St. Marys - 2210) Nodaway Valley - 1711) Wintereset - 1012) Central Decatur - 813) Chariton - 2

Individual StatisticsHigh Jump 1st - Braydee Poore - 6’2”Shot Put 10th - Joe Ricker - 38’11” 11th - Jed McCreary - 38’.5” 12th - Lincoln Lutrick - 35’8”Discus 6th - Joe Ricker - 112’ 18th - Lincoln Lutrick - 91’11”

The outdoor track season for the Mount Ayr Raiderettes kicks into high gear this week with meets at Clarinda April 2 and at Interstate 35 today (April 4). (Results will appear in next week’s Record-News.) Coach Deb Larsen reports that “despite the cold weather, the girls have been working hard and are looking forward to competing, al-though warmer temperatures would be welcome.” Coach Larsen has strong leader-ship with several returning letter-winners. That list includes seniors, Hannah Fletchall, Emily Fox, Madison Hosfi eld, Maggie Jennett,

A 3-on-3 basketball tournament will be held Saturday, April 13 in Diagonal. Teams will be divided by age and gender: third and fourth grade boys and girls, fi fth and sixth grade boys and girls, seventh and eighth grade boys and girls, high school boys and girls and adult men and women. Coed teams in each age group will also be available if enough interest is shown. Teams are limited to fi ve mem-bers at a $25 entry fee. For teams

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Diagonal Sports CalendarApril 4 - 11

Apr 9 MS Trk Graceland 4:00Apr 11 G Trk Moravia 4:30

Raiders place third in tough Husky InviteFirsts grabbed by 4x100, Poore in high jump

Members of the 2013 Raider track team include (front row, L-R) Riley Weehler, Logan Arends, Nick Wurster, Shane Swank, Caleb Schnoor, Noah Larsen and Trevor Anderson; (second row) Ethan McGill, Jacob Taylor, Heath Evans, Tyler Triggs, Jed McCreary, Braydee Poore, Jacob Sobotka and Lincoln Lutrick; (back row) Quintin Chumbley, coach Brad Elliott, Joe Ricker, Grant Staats, Rhett Murphy, Dawson Knapp, Zach Lemon, Matt Poore, Jacob VanHeeswyk, Cody Stackhouse, Kyle Dolecheck, Erik Freed, Lincoln Martin, Zane Sickels, Jack Jones, Lew Knapp and coach Kurt Wallace.

27th - Jed McCreary - 78’9”Long Jump Nick Wurster - 17’11.5” Jack Jones - 17’7.5”3200M 17 th - Dawson Knapp - 12:47.27 22nd- Logan Arends - 15:51.534x800 2nd - 8:43.49 (Kyle Dolecheck Erik Freed, Heath Evans, Noah Larsen)Shuttle Hurdle Relay 4th - 1:04.10 (Grant Staats, Shane Swank, Zane Sickels, Braydee Poore)100M 5th - Cody Stackhouse - 12:10 18th - Jack Jones - 12:79400M

18th - Rhett Murphy - 59:70 23rd - Jacob Taylor - 1:03.444x200 4th - 1:38.16 (Grant Staats, Shane Swank, Zach Lemon, Lin-coln Martin)110M Hurdles 2nd - Braydee Poore - 15:981600 M 3rd - Noah Larsen - 4:51.94 22nd - Wyatt Jackson - 5:46.10200M 4th - Jacob Sobotka - 24:02 19th - Nick Wurster - 26:71400M Hurdles 12th - Shane Swank - 1:03.311600 Medley Relay 3rd - 3:58.02 (Zane Sickels, Zach Lemon, Kyle Dolecheck, Heath Evans)

800M 12th - Trevor Anderson - 2:21.78 25th - Quintin Chumbley - 2:41.954x100 1st - 45:14 (Grant Staats, Jacob Sobotka, Erik Freed, Cody Stack-house)4x400 3:99.96 (Jack Jones, Lincoln Martin, Erik Freed, Jacob Sobot-ka) Tuesday night, April 2 Mount Ayr boys track competed in Afton at the East Union Invitational and travel to Osceola today (April 4) for the Clarke Invitational. Results will appear in next week’s Record-News.

Raiderettes boast several returning letter-winners

The 2013 Raiderette track team includes (front row, L-R) seniors Madi Hosfi eld, Morgan Quick, Emily Fox, Hannah Fletchall, Logan Wimer, Jena James and Maggie Jennett; (second row) Christiana Overholtzer, Shelby Comer, Paige Daughton, Leah Klejch, MaKayla O’Mailia, Naomi Richards and Adrian Richards; (back row) coach Deb Larsen, Brook Rychnovsky, Ashton Johnson, Hannah Glendenning, Kirsten Dolecheck, Maddie Mobley, Laura Davison, Neesie Brand, Taylor Wilson, Bailea Stark, Ica Hauge, Katie Holmes and coach John Larsen.

Morgan Quick and Logan Wimer and manager Jena James; juniors Paige Daughton, Leah Klejch and Brook Rychnovsky and sophomores Hannah Glendenning, Ashton John-son and Adrian Richards. Other squad members include junior Bailea Stark and sophomores Neesie Brand, Shelby Comer, Katie Holmes, Christiana Overholtzer and manager Ashley Paxson. Freshmen new to the squad are Laura David-son, Kirsten Dolecheck, Ica Hague, Makayla O’Mailia, Maddie Mobley and Taylor Wilson.

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with three or four members, the en-try fee is $20. Games will begin at 8 a.m. and will be held in the Diagonal Com-munity school gymnasium. To enter or for more informa-tion, contact Gina Knox at 712-621-5487 or g_gunsolley@hot-mail.com.

The 10th annual Prairie ChickenDay will be held Satur-day, April 6 at 6 a.m. Outdoor enthusiasts are en-couraged to meet at the Keller-ton Bird Conservation Area to enjoy the greater prairie chick-ens as they boom and dance. Viewing will begin at fi rst light (approximately 6 a.m.), which is the best time to see the birds. The viewing area is located two miles west of Kellerton on Highway 2 and about one-and-a-half miles south on 300th Av-enue. Iowa DNR Wildlife Diver-sity Program and AmeriCorps personnel will be on hand to an-swer questions. Attendees are encouraged to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. The viewing

Annual Prairie Chicken Day, GPS Easter egg hunt set for April 6

area is open grassland with little protection from the elements. The prairie chickens will be about 200 yards from the viewing stand, so attendees should bring their own binoculars or spotting scopes. One commercial scope will be available along with the possibility of a few extras for those who do not have the equipment. Coffee, juice and donuts will be available at the viewing stand for all who attend. For more information, contact Josh Rusk at 515-238-7194.

GPS Egg Hunt In conjunction with the Prai-rie Chicken Day event, Ringgold County Conservation (RCC) is holding a free GPS Egg Hunt Sat-urday, April 6 from 9-10 a.m. The hunt will take place at the Kel-lerton Bird Conservation viewing

area. Participants will use Global Positioning System (GPS) units for a modern take on the tradi-tional egg hunt. They will learn how to use a handheld GPS unit for hunting, hiking geocaching and much more. RCC director Kate Zimmerman will give an introductory lesson on the GPS units prior to participants going on the geocache egg hunt. Space is limited to 15 partici-pants per session. Preregistration by April 4 is encouraged. Same-day registration will not be al-lowed. All participants under age 12 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information or to register, contact RCC at 641-464-2787.

Boat registrations due April 30 Iowans will be registering about 235,000 boats between now and April 30, using a new system that has a new look and includes regis-tration information, title and decals on one document. Boat owners should bring their current registration when they re-new as the new system requires additional information, much of which is on the current registra-tion including make, model, model year, hull identifi cation number, boat length, width and more. Boat registrations are handled

by Iowa’s county recorders in the county where the individual re-sides. Nonresidents who register their boat in Iowa will go to the county where the boat is primarily used. Owners who purchased a boat from a private seller and is regis-tering it in their name should bring

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Amish workers take apart the old Judge Lewis Park bath house block by block for repurposing somewhere else. Now that the workers have left, city superintendent Brent Wise plans to enlist Jeff Sickels’ heavy equip-ment to help remove the remaining the debris and generally clean up the area.

Tangible signs of progress

“Breakfast with the Master”The “Breakfast with the Master” series sponsored by the Ringgold Coun-ty Ministerial Association completed its six-day run on Saturday. Orga-nizers report 495 people took part in the event this year to commemorate the Easter holiday.

The Ringgold County Cattlemen’s Association held their annual business meeting and trophy auction Thursday, March 28 at the Legion building in Mount Ayr, Iowa. (Above) The association’s president Trent Johnston displays a creation made by Tony Allen while auctioneer Steve Taylor searches for the highest bibber. During the meeting Jim Werner was also recognized for being named an Iowa master farmer. The auction raised a record $6,020.

The Graceland University Per-forming Arts Series will present Dancers In Company on Friday, April 5 at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The 1 p.m. performance is a lec-ture demonstration and 7:30 p.m. is a formal presentation. Both will take place in Graceland University Shaw Auditorium. Dancers In Company is the touring repertory dance company of the Department of Dance at TheUniversity of Iowa. The company of 12 dancers, undergraduates and graduate students, tours throughout Iowa and the Midwest from March to June each year performing live concerts and lecture demonstra-tions for audiences of all ages. A variance of dance styles is pre-sented by the company, including contemporary dance, jazz dance and classical ballet. The company was formed in 1984, when program director Judy Allen with the Dance faculty and Mary Louise Plautz, who directed the Arts Education Outreach pro-gram, recognized the great need to bring live dance performances to Iowa audiences. The company has, since its inception, brought dance performances to many communi-ties where a live dance concert is a

Graceland to present Dance In Company in Friday performances

A presentation about the recent Ringgold County Mission Trip to South Africa will be held Sunday April 14, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m.at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. A potluck lunch furnished by

Fair, Development Corporationreceive donations from Monsanto The Ringgold County Develop-ment Corporation and Ringgold County Fair Association will now be able to better serve the commu-nity thanks to the support of local farmer, Craig Elliott, and Ameri-ca’s Farmers Grow Communities. Sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of Monsanto Company, Grow Com-munities provides farmers in eli-gible counties the chance to win a $2,500 donation for a local non-profi t organization of their choice. To further support counties de-clared natural disaster areas by the United States Department of Ag-riculture (USDA) due to drought this year, winning farmers in these counties are able to direct double donations, a total of $5,000. Ringgold county was declared a

disaster area by the USDA, giving Elliott the opportunity to choose two organizations to receive $2,500 donations. He selected the Ringgold County Development Corporation and Ringgold County Fair Association. The development corporation will use the donation to promote and assist economic de-velopment throughout the county. The fair plans to use the money to complete the 4-H building on the Ringgold County Fairgrounds. “I’m so grateful to be given this opportunity,” said Elliott. “The money is going to two great orga-nizations and will benefi t the great-est amount of people.” This year, the Monsanto Fund will invest nearly $6 million in rural America through Grow Com-munities, which includes double

donations for counties impacted by the historic drought. In Iowa $495,000 is being given across 99 counties. America’s Farmers Grow Com-munities is sponsored by the Mon-santo Fund to partner with farmers in helping them positively impact

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April 4 - March has come and gone and all in a fl urry of not only a lot of snow but also a lot of ac-tivity. Time does fl y when you are having fun! March started off with everyone welcoming Dick Fuqua to Maple Ridge. Dick is a won-derful gentleman and all are very pleased to have him with them. He has moved to Maple Ridge from Lamoni. Have you ever given pigs much thought? March 1 was National Pig Day so tenants took time to learn more about the animal and found them to be quite smart! During that time everyone enjoyed play-ing pig mania, trivia and even had a greased pig contest. Tenants have been able to enjoy music more often as the piano in the living area keeps quite busy. It is nice to have family members and visitors stop and play a few tunes while they are visiting. This past month Marcia Allen and Ken Smith, children of Paul and Fran-ces Smith, played dinner music for everyone. It was also nice to have Carmene and Ann James entertain for an afternoon with solos and du-ets on the piano. Several went to Mount Ayr Health Care to listen to a different kind of music. Musical-ly Inclined, a group from Creston, entertained. Margaret Wilson, Phyllis Fau-bion, Dick Fuqua and Vergene Higgins traveled to the Mount Ayr

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Community high school one eve-ning to enjoy their play, “Dono-vans’ Daughters.” Bingo is still a favorite game and all are pleased to be able to en-joy it often. This month’s winners were Donna Benegas, Vergene Higgins, Margaret Wilson, Paul Smith, Frances Goff, Earle Schad, Elladeen McGahuey, Dick Fuqua with guests Ken Smith and Erma Harris. Mary Kathryn Gepner has spent each Monday afternoon with ten-ants bringing a different book and topic each week. It is always a joy to listen to her as she is so very interesting and knowledge-able. Interesting social hour top-ics were had during March as they included March means. . ., sharing from Ruth’s book, kitchen gadgets and pups. All subjects and present-ers were great. One of the men commented that he didn’t know he would enjoy the kitchen so much until he came to the kitchen gad-get session. Betsy Budach led the pups session and brought along her puppy and lots of interesting things that go along with pets. This sub-ject certainly brought back a lot of memories and stories from those gathered. Another time that all enjoy is sharing time. This time tenants had many interesting items to view while listening to tenants tell about each. Dominoes is fast becoming a great way to spend an afternoon not to mention read aloud with Dorothy Hughes. Easter week found everyone enjoying several different Easter activities and games. On Good Fri-day all attended an Easter brunch put on by Deanna Adams, Marie Still and Sandy Swietlik. All ar-rived to a beautifully set table and a feast of French toast, hash browns, sausage, eggs, bacon and fresh fruit. Each place setting included a bunny and a basket fi lled with

candy made by Marie. The morn-ing closed with the group singing Easter songs led by Dick Fuqua. Visitors are always welcome at Maple Ridge so please stop by anytime! Those visiting during the month of March have been Jim, Joyce and Jayla Johnson and Wyatt with Annabelle Jones; John and Mary Howell, Steve Powell and Paulette Clem with Nina Poore; Amy Mobley with Frances Goff; John Hargrave, Ken Smith and Marcia Allen with Paul and Fran-ces Smith; Gary and Carol Schad with Earl Schad; Bobbie and Anne Rinehart, Di-ane Drake, Sharon Smith and Jus-tin and Angela Boord with Marga-ret Wilson; Betsy, Erin and Molly Budach with Betty Rullestad, and Candice Faubion with Phyllis Faubion. Happy spring!

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First Christian at 11:30 a.m. will precede the noon presentation. The community is invited to both the potluck and presentation. Dr. Bruce Ricker and mission participants will give a 30-minute PowerPoint program and answer questions. The presentation will cover everything from getting “kissed” by an elephant and walk-ing with lions to feeding hungry children and doing a Holy Spirit camp for 83 orphans and vulner-able children. The Ringgold Mission Team also has a Facebook page, “Mis-sion Trip to South Africa from Ringgold County.” Team member Cyndi Sobotka reports over 7,500 visits to the Facebook page so far. The mission trip was associated with Blessman Ministries, which feeds 5,000 orphans and vulnerable children each day. In addition, the ministry teaches micro-enterprises including sewing, computer tech-nology, raising chickens, planting corn, brick making and well dig-ging. Visit blessmanministries.org for more information.

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April 4 - Modern Mothers club will meet at Rumors on April 10. Joan and Don Stringham ate lunch with Katie McGary, Matt Swank and LeaAnn Friday at Ru-mors. Wallace and Patty Sobotka at-tended Chuck Sobotka’s 80th birthday party Saturday in Diago-nal. Weekend guests of Mike, Ma-linda, Shane and Mitchel Swank were Matt Swank, Katie McGary and LeaAnn. Easter dinner guests of Bob and Lucy Ricker were Brent, Martha, Jessie, Jake and Joe Ricker, Bruce and Michell Ricker and Blake and Socorro Waugh. Wallace and Patty Sobotka had Easter dinner in the home of Steve and Cyndi Sobotka. Easter dinner guests of Don and Joan Stringham were Mike, Ma-linda, Shane and Mitchel Swank, Matt Swank, Katie McGary and LeaAnn. Junior and Mary Swank and Karla Larson and Jarred were Eas-ter Sunday dinner guests of Rich-ard Swank. All the family and Tammy and Alex Booth were Easter dinner guests of Ann Baker. Mary Gepner was a Easter Sunday supper guest of Mike and Nancy Gepner.

April 1 - Harold and Jeannette Williams went Saturday to the home of their son and wife, Brian and Laura, and enjoyed an early Easter dinner. Other guests includ-ed their daughter, Lisa, and her friend, Ron; granddaughter, Sa-mantha and great-grandson, Tay-lor; Laura’s parents, and a friend of Laura’s. Linda Swanson and her sister, Cathy, met their cousins and uncle at Mama Lacona’s for their month-ly lunch meeting Friday. Linda attended funeral services for Max Greimann Saturday. Ernie and Judy Mercer also attended funeral services for Max Greimann’s visi-tation Friday evening and funeral Saturday. Hester Derscheid went to the Tingley meal site for the anni-versary celebration and later she shopped in Creston and visited with Jack and Louise Cothron on her way home. Conne Huff enjoyed visits from family over the weekend. Willis Huff and son Christopher and his wife, Danae, were lunch guests Saturday and grandson Jeff Mercer was an afternoon visitor Sunday.

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Jeani Swartwood

April 1 - What a busy week they have had at Clearview. The week-end teased them with a hint of warm weather and then they were hit with snow again! Exercise and trivia started off Monday morning. Scott Marcum arrived for Bible study Monday afternoon with everyone enjoying cookies and coffee after the les-son. Residents came to the living room Tuesday morning for Bible trivia. They all know the Bible and could answer every question. They all had popcorn to munch on while taxing their brains. The Commu-nity Singers entertained Tuesday

afternoon. Color was the theme for songs. Residents always enjoy listening and visiting with the sing-ers. They all came to the dining room afterwards for refreshments of caramel apple cheesecake bars, and chocolate frozen dessert. Their next visit will be in May. Wednesday morning were exer-cise and Easter trivia. Amy brought a puppy with her and everyone had a ball with “Scotty.” Scott Mar-cum was the minister for church Wednesday afternoon. The staff had brought in their baby pictures and Thursday morn-ing residents tried to guess who they were. They had quite a time and only got a couple right. There was also a jar of Easter eggs sit-ting on the counter for everyone to guess how many and Carolyn Hull was the winner. This month there will be something different for them to guess. The monthly birth-day party was Thursday afternoon and everyone enjoyed playing bin-go. Winners were Lorane Leonard, Gladys Gose, Clara Kilgore and Jean Haidsiak. There were refresh-ments of cupcakes and soda after bingo. After exercise Friday morning everyone had some Good Friday trivia and named fl owers with each letter of the alphabet. The school kids came to color Easter eggs with the residents Friday afternoon. Martha Larson, Nancy Brown and Diana Bolinger brought the kin-dergarten, fi rst and second grades up to help the residents. They had about 15 dozen eggs and this writ-er thinks they went through them all. With a little dye here and there, they all went home with their eggs and an Easter treat. SunBest Foods donated the eggs. Friday evening Clearview was honored to have the SWCC jazz choir, Modern Sound, perform. Their director, Ryan Howe, along with singers, Tyler Hochstetler of Winterset, Lucas Williams of De Soto, Lance Bird of Winterset, Mike Ernst of Green-fi eld, Samantha Takes of Cedar Falls, Sally Gaire of San Jose, CA and Amber Azurduy of Los Ange-les, CA, performed songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s. They had been on tour for the last two weeks and Clearview was their last stop. Evelyn Stevenson celebrated her 103rd birthday Saturday after-noon with family and friends. Her sons, Jim and Shirley Morey, Ed and Georgia Morey and John and Donna Morey, came with cake to share with family, friends and resi-dents. Bev Stream also enjoyed family helping her celebrate her birthday Sunday afternoon. Daughters Barb Curtis and Becky Barrans and families brought in snacks for all to enjoy. Several went out for Easter din-ner and some had guests. Dorothy Wetzel had lunch with Galen and Marcia Nickel, and all the grand-kids and great-grandkids. They all enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in the afternoon. Gladys Gose went to the home of her daughter, Dorothy and Stan Knox, Saturday evening for supper. They also took her to church Sunday morning. Evelyn Lund’s son, Chuck Lund, picked her up Sunday morning and she enjoyed lunch with their family. Helen Lyddon joined John and Karla Lyddon and their family for lunch Sunday. Harriet Garrett was happy to be at home for the week-end with her husband, Marvin, and family. Jeane England had as her guests Sunday her daughter and grandson, Linda and Nick Hubu-ch. Jim and Shirley Morey joined Evelyn Stevenson for lunch Sun-day. Lila Barker received a call from her son, Rusty, wishing her a Happy Easter. Ethel Helgeson was hostess to her husband, Har-lan, and daughter, Elaine and O J Fargo, Sunday evening for dinner. Visitors for the week have been Galen and Marcia Nickell, Rob Wetzel and Angie and Brooklyn Sheffi eld with Dorothy Wetzel; Liz Kilgore, Kathy Valenzuela, Gordon Kilgore and Kerry Saville with Clara Kilgore; Jim and Shirley Morey, Ed and Georgia Morey, John and Donna Morey, Judy Mozingo, Jeannine and Guy Hampton, Normie Beggs, Keeta Beggs and Maralyn Schlapia with Evelyn Stevenson; Bob and Ro-berta Lockhart and Linda and Nick Hubuch with Jeane England; Gary and Carolyn Williams, Terri and Chelsea Stevens and George Haidsiak with Jean Haid-siak; Rick and Marvin Garrett and Sharlene Hood with Harriet Garrett; Joe, Donna, Katelyn and Megan Warin and Jack and Dixie Taylor with Lorabel Taylor; Mark and Becky Barrans, Stan and Barb Curtis, April and Brandon Wright and Clint Curtis with Bev Stream.

April 1 - Hopefully everyone had a nice Easter! The warmer weather has sure been welcomed by all at Health Care. The outside patio times with friends and family are always enjoyed a lot with the weather changing. Several residents were able to go out and enjoy time with fam-ily and friends for Easter Sunday which included Margaret Camp-bell, Bev Moore, Maxine Werner, Virginia Albers, Ruth Angus, Dar-lene Minnick and Evalee White. Residents having guests Sunday were Catherine Crawford, Elaine McCampbell and Sylvia Hall. The week began with rhyming words which were started Monday morning followed by daily exer-cises and devotions. Coffee hour was held in the afternoon and resi-dents were able to talk about any questions or concerns that they had on their minds, along with drawing a new name for the resident of the month for April and also honored the March resident. Chocolate waffl e cookies and coffee were served as they were also celebrat-ing National Waffl e Day. Tuesday morning the shopping cart was open for business. Domi-noes were played in the afternoon with the help of Phyllis Sickels. Neil Stanley was a guest player with his mother, Ada Stanley. Ruth Angus led a game of Mexican train dominoes and it was a lot of fun as well. A card game of Skip Bo was played also at another table. Charles Hawkins led the Bible study. Wednesday residents enjoyed listening to Easter stories along with sharing past memories. Jim Pollock led the church service. Ellen Powell played the piano. During lunch everyone celebrated Maxine Werner’s 92nd birthday and were treated with delicious birthday cake. Bingo was enjoyed in the afternoon with helpers Phyl-lis Sickels, Corwin Karr, Harold Crawford and Judy Doolittle. Linda Swanson called the numbers. Win-ners included Dorothy Sobotka, Ruth Angus, Loreen Reed, Kenny Driftmier, Sylvia Hall, Elaine Mc-Campbell, Margaret Fletchall, Ver-gene Higgins, Corwin Karr, Earl Brand and Evalee White. Blackout winner was Margaret Fletchall. Thursday residents started the day with nail care provided by Phyllis Riggs, along with many receiving hair care by the stylist. Residents got a chance to make an Easter bonnet in the afternoon with Deanna and helpers Rosemary Hullinger and Marlys McPherson. Friday brought a morning of fun Easter games such as tossing eggs into baskets along with put-ting an Easter egg around different objects with a hockey stick. Easter trivia and egg and rabbit facts were talked about along with Easter memories and residents fi nished with daily exercises. They were all treated with decorated cookies in the afternoon bingo game. Deanna called the numbers while Abby Swanson, Phyllis Riggs, Har-old Crawford and Phyllis Sickels helped at the tables. Guests were Neil Stanley and Abby Swanson. Winners included Nieda Cunning-ham who won blackout, Lorene Triggs, Elaine McCampbell, Neil Stanley, Marvin Morse, Phyllis Sickels, Ruth Angus, Kenny Drift-mier, Dick Fuqua, Margaret Wil-son, Abby Swanson and Virginia Albers. Saturday some residents en-joyed playing word games fol-lowed by exercises. Sunday school was taught by Mary K. Overholtzer this past Sunday with music by Charlotte Swank. Welcome visitors over the past week have been Roy and Do-ris Bane of Laramie, WY, Ellen Powell, Tate and Isaac Dugan and Marie Still with Ruth Angus; Terri Main with Dorothy Main; Neil Stanley with Ada Stanley; Larry and Arletta Hogue of Ankeny and Lyle Hogue of Missouri with Irene

Hogue; Connie Worthington and Greg and Michelle Worthington of Des Moines with Margaret Fletch-all; Rhonda Cooper of Kent with Kathryn Adams; Julie Ingram of Winterset, Nancy and Race Kel-ley and Steve and Marilyn Werner with Maxine Werner; Merna King of Bedford and Heather King and Elicia Ropte of Des Moines with Ed and Lorraine King; Janice Richman with Wayne and Irene Bohn; Judy Doolittle, Teena Hash and Emma, Jeffrey and Amber Richards of Leon with Loreen Reed; Wayne and Suzanne Brown of Pleasant Hill, Irene Miracle of Adel and Marilyn Bolle of West Des Moines with Shirley Brown; Larry and Pat Teply and Missy Dog with Gerald Gardner; Ethel Campbell with Don Campbell; Bob and Jean Wright of Waukee with Earl Brand; Cheryl Stuck and Jim, Megan, Evan and Maggie Stuck, all of Warrensburg, MO with Bev Moore; James Ruby, Lois Grace and Ron and Terri Ruby with Betty Ruby; Stephen Campbell of Altoona, Mary Weaver and Connie Drake with Paul and Marie Campbell; Jim and Rosemary Hullinger, Judi, Travis, Bryce and Brock Shaha and Harold, Melynda and Samantha Crawford with Catherine Craw-ford; Leola Adams with Luella Ad-kisson; Pam Cooper with Virginia Albers, and Pam and Robert Grace and Carol and Arlene Sobotka with Dorothy Sobotka.

April 1 - Happy April Fools! Hope everyone had a safe prank to play on their friends and family. Mother nature sure played a prank on all of us with one last snow. It didn’t amount to much but the temperatures were below normal. Coming up today (Thursday) will be the nature program at 9:30 a.m. followed by a baseball game in the afternoon. Kathi will be in to play high rollers on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and the Tingley Kitchen Band will be in to play Tuesday at 2 p.m. Residents will get to pick their activity on April 11 at 9:30 a.m. followed by a pizza party in the afternoon. Monday Pattie read to the resi-dents in a small group setting. It was enjoyed by many. In the af-ternoon Liz prepared the kitchen for “In the Kitchen with Liz” for the afternoon activity. The ladies measured fl our and other ingredi-ents for some spring desserts. Liz shared her mom’s lemon bars to start off. They also grated some carrots for an old-fashioned carrot cake cupcake with nuts and raisins. The fi nal recipe was a simple or-ange coffee cake made with large biscuits and fresh orange rinds. They ate the coffee cake right after it was taken out of the oven. The bars and cupcakes were served for dessert Tuesday. Liz mixed up some cornfl ake cookies in the kitchen for coffee club. Pattie dropped them onto waxed paper before serving them to the residents. Jane and Roland Buck and Peggy Wagenknecht were in to help lead the music in the morning. Lisa played the piano in the south lobby. Bingo was played in the afternoon. Win-ners were Laura Osborn, Minnie Breckenridge, Shorty Umbarger, Roxie Trullinger, Norma Smith, Doyle Murphy and Helen Banks. Carmene James played the piano before bingo. Carmene also stayed to help Pattie with the prizes. Wednesday Pattie and Kathi were busy all morning with hand care. Jim Pollock was in to lead church in the afternoon. Carmene James played the church music on the piano. The Little Raider Preschoolers were in to color Easter eggs. There were 15 kids coloring the eggs along with their fi ngers. Several residents were out enjoying the fun and designing eggs to be colored, too. Beth Christner and Gina Still were the teachers for the group.

Students included Adalynn Dredge, Addison Doolittle, Aubree Shields, Ashlyn Byers, Adden Shay (Twilla Lininger’s great-grandson), Brack-en Collier, Brittlyn Nickle, Conlee Stark, Ivy Bice, Kaley Murphy, Kensie Barnes, Tanner Streit, Lil-lie Curry, Ella Waske (Matt and Katie Routh’s niece) and Jaxson Greene. The National Honor Society members were in to host the birth-day party for March Thursday. They played hangman with the residents and served brownies and ice cream for refreshments. NHS members were April Shields, Hagan Willis, Matt Poore, Madison Hosfi eld and Brooke Rychnovsky. Friday Liz and Sommer had the residents folding and assembling the April Chatterbox. Helping were Joan Hill, Anita Hayworth, Iris Osborn, Rose Hunt, Helen Banks, Marilyn Richards, Donnie Johnston and Permelia Fletchall. Donnie Johnston delivered them to the residents. Sommer read the Mount Ayr Record-News and Diagonal Progress to a group of residents. They were all interest-ed in the building edition in the Record-News. At noon Liz, Pattie and Kathi peeled boiled eggs for residents at the lunch table. Liz and Amber fi lled 300 plastic eggs for the Easter egg hunt Friday night. Helping to hide the eggs and candy were Liz Schafer and her girls, Ab-bey, Elsie and Emmalee. In the af-ternoon, Sommer called bingo and volunteers Bessie Parker, Kelly Kern and Nina Fricke helped with the prizes. Residents gathered in the south lobby and outside on the south porch to watch the staff’s kids look for Easter eggs on the south lawn. There were 28 kids in search for eggs. Eight girls and boys won and Easter basket fi lled with fun and games. Winners were Hail-

ley Gregg, Ty Jones, Analise Hill, Trey Fooken, Kenny Lehman, Kylie Hubbard, Brandon Brobst and Kaylee Jeralds. Others out for the egg hunt were Wyatt Parman, Wynston Jones, Caleb Hubbard, Klayton Hill, Haylee Robb, Chloe Robb, Madeline Oshel, Claire Os-hel, Hayden Brobst, Daysen Gregg, Kenleigh Fooken, Abby Nelson, Colt Cameron, Claire Routh, Pais-ley Hill, Colton Hubbard, Kody Jeralds and Hunter Nelson. Sunday Kathi Blunck was in to offer Sunday school in the morn-ing. Liz Schafer and her girls came in to deliver candy to the residents for Easter before lunch. They all enjoyed seeing them in their Easter dresses. Visitors last week were Janis Taylor with Anna Linkey; Joyce England with Lois Anne Sobotka; Pat Carr of Spencer with Kathleen Freed; Donna Bond and great-granddaughters with Laura Os-born; Leonard Miller, Lyla Miller, Sue Rahn and Steve Miller with Ray Miller; Kay Sickels with Vera Daughton; Shirley Erickson with Don Strange; Devan Souza of Ce-dar Rapids with Iris Osborn; Dick and Carol Ann Reeve and Steve and Michelle Rhine and Gavin and Jordan with Ione Veatch; Andrew Drake with Minnie Breckenridge; Annette and Pete Faux of Farming-ton, MN with Ione Veatch; Larry Hunt of Kansas City, MO with Rose Hunt; Jim, Lori and Al-lison Norris with Mildred Beymer; Ron and Teena Gater with Liz Lynch; Vicky, Dan and Jennifer Smith with Vera Carson; Nancy Greenberg with Forrest and Car-meta Shields; Bill and Linda Kon-nath and John Trullinger with Rox-ie Trullinger; Darren and Kisha Martin with Shirley Martin; Mike and Bev Auer, Ruth Hoy, Charles Grout, Ron Grout and Bob Grout with Pearl Grout;

Adriene Rathburn and Larry and Louise Sackett with Cleola Geist; Dorothy Barber with Doyle Murphy; John Walkup with Vera Carson; Gary Scott and Dale Scott with Edna Scott; Roger and Karen Stickler with Helen Stickler; Lesa Darrah with Berniece Hoffman; Jeremy, Joni, Gavin and Haylee Gillam and Kathy Butler with Pam Larsen; Bill and Diane Brecken-ridge with Minnie Breckenridge; Todd, Jennifer, Matt, Katie and Kyle Taylor with Anna Lin-key; Gene, Janice, Katie, Court-ney, C.J. and Jerinema Karr with Shirley Karr; John, Lesa, Aaron, Tucker, Baylee and Alexis Dar-rah with Berniece Hoffman; Da-vid and Quita Koehler with Twilla Lininger; Betty Cole with Donnie Johnston, and Jane Lee Feeback with Pauline Wood.

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Church NotesMount Ayr Larger Parish

United Methodist ChurchesPastor Skip Rushing

Redding 9:00 a.m., Worship. 10:00 a.m., Sunday School.

Middle Fork 9:00 a.m., Sunday School, all ages. 10:00 a.m., Worship.

Mount Ayr10:00 a.m., Sunday School.

10:30 - 11:00 a.m., Refreshments and Fellowship. 11:00 a.m., Worship. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

100 N. Polk, Mount AyrFr. Bashir Abdelsamad, Pastor

Saturdays, mass at 5:30 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Catholic ChurchGrand River

Fr. Bashir Abdelsamad, Pastor Sunday mass, 8:00 a.m.

United Church of DiagonalPastor Ed Shields

9:30 a.m., Church. 10:30 a.m., Sunday school.

Tingley First Christian ChurchAl Rusk, Pastor

10:00 a.m., Church school. Mar-garet Hull, Superintendent. 11:00 a.m., Worship.

First Lutheran ChurchMount Ayr - LCMS

Vacancy Pastor: Rev. Jonathan Watt Sunday, April 7: 11:00 a.m., Worship with holy communion.

Free Methodist Church Charles Weiman, Pastor

10:00 a.m., Sunday school. 11:00 a.m., Worship service. 7:00 p.m., Evening worship. Wednesday, Family Night Prayer meeting; F.M.Y., C.L.C., 7 p.m.

Kellerton Assembly of God Church

Pastor Barton Shields 9:30 a.m., Sunday School. 10:30 a.m., Worship service. 6:00 p.m., Sunday evening wor-ship. Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Adult Bible study.

Blockton Christian ChurchScott Marcum, Pastor

9:30 a.m., Bible School. 10:45 a.m., Worship. Second and fourth Sundays of each month, Youth Groups. First Wednesday of each month, Church Night.

Tent ChapelChurch of Christ

Richard Reinhardt, Minister(3 miles south of Blockton, Iowa)

Bible study, 10:00 a.m. Morning worship, 11:00 a.m. Watch “In Search of the Lord’s Way” - 7 a.m., Sunday on Ch. 17; KDSM Dish 259, 6:30 a.m. or Direct TV 364, 6:30 a.m. Sundays, 6:30 p.m., evening ser-vices. Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m., Bible study.

Regular Baptist ChurchMount Ayr

464-3293 (Church)Pastor Seth Denney

9:45 a.m., Sunday School. 11:00 a.m., Morning worship service. Nursery available. 6:30 p.m., Evening service. Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m., AWANA; 7 p.m., Midweek Bible study and prayer. 7 p.m., Youth service.

Hickory GroveAdvent Christian Church

Sherry Wiley, supply pastor The church has closed for the winter and will reopen in the spring on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2013.

Mount Ayr Assembly of GodPastor Doug Rohrer

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8:15 - 8:45 a.m., Prayer 9:00 a.m., Sunday school for all ages. 10:00 a.m., Fellowship. 10:30 a.m., Worship service. Nursery available. Children’s church. 5:00 p.m. Men of Valor Saturday, March 2: 8 - 11 a.m., Open Closet.

Thursdays: Revolution Youth - 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesdays: Kids Club - 5-7 p.m.

KellertonUnited Methodist Church

Rev. Robin Thomas, Pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship.

Beaconsfi eldUnited Methodist Church

Rev. Robin Thomas, Pastor Sunday, 9:00 a.m., Morning Wor-ship. No Sunday School.

First Christian Church Pastor Chris Conklin

Sunday, April 7: 9:00 a.m., Sunday school. 10:00 a.m., Church. Wednesday, April 10: 9:00 a.m., Dorcas. Wednesdays: L.A.M.B.S. at 3:30 p.m.; Choir at 5:30 p.m. Thursday Prayer group at 9:30 a.m.

United Baptist-Presbyterian Church

2343 State Highway 169Mount Ayr

Michael Maddy, Pastor(641-464-2127)

www.ubpchurch.com Sunday, April 7: 9:00 a.m., Sunday school.

10:00 a.m., Church service. Greeter, Dean Blades; Call to worship, Deb Larson: Musician, Nancy Sackett; Children’s sermon, Pastor Mike Maddy; Message: Mike Maddy. Snacks: Sharon Carr. Monday, April 8: 5:00 p.m., Stretch exercises-UBP Church. Tuesday, April 9: 7:00 a.m., Men’s breakfast at UBP Church.

Wednesday, April 10: 5:00 p.m., Stretch exercise at UBP Church. 5:30 p.m., Choir practice at UBP Church. Director Judy Cunning. 6:30 p.m., Bible study at Mount Ayr Health Care. April 5-7: Ringgold County Cares packaging held at the UBP Church. Contact Ron Schafer to help. Platte Center Presbyterian Church

Delores Dench, Pastor 9:15 a.m., Sunday school. 10:00 a.m., Fellowship. 10:30 a.m., Worship. Bank of Christ Outreach and Hope

Center2nd & Ringgold, Kellerton

10:00 a.m., Sunday school for children and adults. 11:00 a.m., Church service with Kathy Johnston speaking.

Wishard Chapel Community Church

Pastor Bill Armstrong 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., Worship. Women of Wishard (WOW): Every fi rst Wednesday at 7 p.m.

EllstonUnited Methodist Church

Rev. Robin Thomas, Pastor 9:00 a.m., Church services. 10:00 a.m., Sunday school and Bible study. United Methodist Women: Every second Monday at 1:30 p.m. United Methodist Men: First/third Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. Youth Group: First/third Wednes-days, 6:30 p.m. Second Sunday - potluck; fourth Sunday - fellowship time. Website: ellstonumc.org

TingleyUnited Methodist Church

Rev. Robin Thomas, Pastor 9:30 a.m., Sunday school. 10:30 a.m., Worship. United Methodist Women: Every Third Wednesday. Youth Group: Second and Fourth Sundays, 5 p.m., at Ellston.

The LighthouseNon-Denominational Fellowship

Doug Greene, PastorDarin Dolecheck, Youth Pastor

(west 2 miles on Hwy. 2) 9:45 a.m., Sunday School. 10:30 a.m., Worship. 6:30 p.m., Evening Worship. Mondays, 5 p.m., Thin Within Support Group; 7 p.m., Sowing in Tears Support Group. Wednesdays, 6 - 8 p.m., Crew Kids’ Club; 8 - 9 p.m., SOC Youth Meeting. Saturday Night Service, 7 p.m., Bible Study and Prayer led by Darla Dolecheck. Sermons available online at: light-houseonline.org.

Area Bible Fellowship Church204 North Van Buren, Clearfi eld

Pastor Ron Christian 10:00 a.m., Worship service. 11:15 a.m., Sunday school.

Wednesday: 6:30 p.m., AWANA.Website: www.areabiblefellow-

ship.org

Trinity Christian ChurchTerry Roberts, Minister

446-8654(Hwy. 2 West, Decatur)

8:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., Sunday morning worship services. 9:30 a.m., Sunday School, all ages. Wednesday: 7 p.m., Youth/Small group Bible study. Nursery avail-able.

The Community of ChristTony and Sandy Crandell, Co-pastors

Sunday, April 7: 9:50 a.m., Sunday school. 11:00 a.m., Worship service with John Dunsdon speaking.

Mount Ayr Restoration BranchSherman Phipps, Presiding Elder

Alan Smith, AssistantSunday, April 7:Welcomers: Sue Beck family.

9:45 a.m., Family Worship, Bob Rowlands family. 10:00 a.m., Classes. 11:00 a.m., Worship. Gordon Winkler, presiding; norman Nelson, speaking; Pat Bolingbroke, pianist; Alan Smith, special music. Custodians: Sherman Phipps. 6:00 p.m., Family fellowship at Bob Rowlands home. Wednesday, April 10: 7:00 p.m., Prayer service.

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Junior BolingerJUNIOR “ROCKY” BOLINGER Junior Lee “Rocky” Bolinger, 78, of Creston, Iowa was the second oldest child of Rex Leo Bolinger and Austie (Spencer) Bolinger. He was born south of Mount Ayr, Iowa in rural Ringgold county on March 7, 1935. He said he was just born on a fence post. He worked as a farm hand for Leroy Francis, who had the best strawberries. He was drafted into the United States Army and served in Korea 1957 to 1959. When he was dis-charged, his folks had moved out west of Diagonal, Iowa and lived on the ranch. Rocky helped his dad milk about 100 head of cows. He later worked for Tom Kenny and Raymond Dill on the farm. Junior married Sandra Sue Shimer June 5, 1961. They lived in rural Diagonal on the Roy Lum-bard farm. They moved to Lenox in the 1960s and Junior worked for Totes. In 1968 Junior started working at the Farm and Home in Creston so they moved to Creston in 1970 and he worked there until 1989. Junior and Sandy decided to adopt and were lucky to get two lovely daughters from Korea. Rocky liked to garden and al-ways kept his yard well cared for. He collected country and western music. Rocky fi nally decided to do a little singing with some of the groups in the area. He wished he had started singing several years before he did. Some of the songs he liked to sing himself were “Pass Me Bye,” “Wind Me Up,” “Kiss An Angel Good Morning” and “The Fireman.” Junior and Sandy enjoyed at-tending the Lenox Rodeo and the Diagonal Labor Day celebrations.

They attended all the girls’ school activities and continued with their grandchildren’s activities. Family has always been very special to Rocky. Left to mourn his passing are his wife, Sandy Bolinger; their daughters, Julie Ann (Matt) Weis, both of Creston, Iowa and Mandy Sue Bolinger (Lon) Nelson of Port Barrington, Illinois; fi ve grand-children, Samantha McDonald, George and Owen Weis of Creston and Kylee and Jameson Nelson of Port Barrington, Illinois; fi ve sisters, Viola Wahl of Clearfi eld, Iowa, Margie Kenner of Galena, Missouri, Doris (Greg Briner) Bolinger of Tingley, Iowa, Dora (Ronnie) Ray of Creston, Iowa and Georgia (Gene) Springer of Fairbury, Nebraska; fi ve brothers, Lowell Dean (Doreen) Bolinger of What Cheer, Iowa, Robert (Doc) (Linda) Bolinger of Kent, Iowa, Floyd (Kay) Bolinger of Diagonal, Iowa, Ronnie (Del) Bolinger of Lenox, Iowa and Melvin (Sharon) Bolinger of Knoxville, Iowa; un-cle, Loren (Dorothy) Bolinger of Blockton, Iowa, and aunt, Sherry Bolinger of Clearfi eld, Iowa; four brothers-in-law, Virgin Shimer of Creston, Iowa, Albert (Joy Reyn-olds) Shimer of Perry, Iowa, Dell (Betty) Shimer and Jackie (Marie) Shimer of Creston, Iowa; three sisters-in-law, Elaine Bolinger of Sharpsburg, Iowa, Kay Camden of Lenox, Iowa and Loula Shimer of Blockton, Iowa, and nieces, neph-ews, cousins, friends and family. Junior was preceded in death by his parents, Rex and Austie Bolinger; one brother, Clark Bolinger; fi ve brothers-in-law, Jack Camden, Robert Keener, Thurman Keener, Johnnie Shimer and Dwayne Wahl; one sister-in-law, Cora Adamson, and aunts and uncles. Rocky will be missed by his loving family and friends. He will be forever in their hearts. May God grant comfort and peace to those who mourn his passing. Celebration of life services for Junior “Rocky” Bolinger, age 78, of Creston, who died Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at his home in Creston were held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at the Ritchie Funeral Home in Lenox. Interment was held at the Blue Grove Cemetery in rural Taylor county. Memori-als can be given in Rocky’s name. Memories can be shared with the family at www.ritchiefuneralhome.

com under obituaries. Arrange-ments were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Lenox.

Max GreimannMAX ELTON GREIMANN

Max Elton Greimann son of Nicholas Lyle and Z. Florence (Messinger) Greimann, entered this world on April 12, 1928 in a farmhouse in Ringgold county, Iowa, just three/fourths of a mile south of where he would one day farm for over 60 years. He attend-ed grade school at a country school and then later went to school in Ellston and graduated from high school in 1946 in Arispe after his parents moved to a farm northeast of Ellston located on the Union/Ringgold county line. After gradu-ation Max returned to Ringgold county and bought his present day farm from his grandfather, Henry. On May 15, 1949 he married his high school sweetheart, Rosella Lavonne Smith, and they contin-ued to farm as a team for almost 50 years. This marriage was blessed by two children, Paula Rose (1951) and Elton Lyle (1953). Over the years Max added to his land by buying two neighbor-ing farms. He primarily raised cat-tle and hogs but also had sheep and chickens for a short time. His main income for years was dairy cattle of which he and Rosella milked up to 40 cows at one time. Max was very outgoing and never met a stranger. He would often strike up conversations with people he had never met before and in no time had them laughing along with him as he joked with them. He did love to kid and joke with people. Giving people a hard time in a joking way was what he was well known for in his neigh-borhood. He loved his family and espe-cially enjoyed watching his grand-children and great-grandchildren at family get-togethers. He also cared for many pets in a very lov-

ing manner that few would bestow upon a stray cat or dog. They be-came like children to him as he cared for ailing cats and dogs. He also enjoyed working in his garden and fl ower beds. After he stopped farming, he would raise a big gar-den each summer and give most of the produce to widow women in Kellerton as he always had more than one person could eat. As his heath declined, he had to opt to move into an apartment in Kellerton where he resided for two years with help from his daughter and public heath personnel. In Jan-uary 2013 Max decided he could no longer care for himself in his home so he decided to move into the nursing home for more help and companionship. Max departed this life peace-fully in his sleep on March 25, 2013 at 84 years, 11 months. He was preceded in death by his par-ents; his wife of almost 49 years, Rosella; siblings, Roe and wife Donna Greimann and Pauline and husband Lawrence “Mug” Crevel-ing, and brother-in-law, Paul Wee-da. Those left with wonderful memories are his daughter, Paula and husband Danny Webb of Kel-lerton, Iowa and their children and grandchildren, Nicholas and wife Elisa Jones and son Isaac of Paris, France, Danise Russo and children Devin and Hannah of Kellerton, Iowa and Rick and wife Becky and son Carson and one expected in June of Ankeny, Iowa; his son, Lyle and wife Vicki of Fort Dodge, Iowa and their children and grand-children, Cory and his children, Brayden and Madison, of Jamaica, Iowa and Kelli and daughter Jolie of Gowrie, Iowa; sister, Darlene Weeda; several cousins, in-laws, nieces and nephews, and a host of lifelong friends. Memorials are to the Kellerton United Methodist Church or an animal shelter of your choice. Ar-rangements were by Watson-Arm-strong Funeral Home in Mount Ayr. Services were held at the Unit-ed Methodist Church in Keller-ton on Saturday, March 30, 2013, with Rev. Robin Thomas and Rev. Joyce Smith offi ciating. Musicians were Sandy Campbell and Richard and Camille Jackson. Casket bearers included Royce Dredge, Carrol Adams, Mar-ty Lesan, Jerold Adams, Allan Dolecheck and Leland Dolecheck. Honorary pallbearers were Nicholas Webb, Danise Russo, Rick Webb, Cory Greimann and Kelli Greimann. Burial was in the Maple Row Cemetery in Kellerton.

Annual pack-a-thon set for April 5-7 Ringgold County Cares is gear-ing up for the next big packing date. The fourth annual pack-a-thon to pack 100,000 meals is set for April 5-7 at the United Baptist-Presbyterian Church. The event will run from 4 p.m. to midnight on Friday, April 5. Packaging will resume on Satur-day, April 6 at 7 a.m. and go until 7 p.m. Saturday evening. Volunteers will fi nish the work from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. To sign up to volunteer or spon-sor a table, contact Ron Schafer, 801 S. Henderson Dr., Mount Ayr, IA 50854, call 641-414-1527 or email schafer@mchsi.com.

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Public Notices County Columns

Ringgold County Supervisors Proceedings

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Public NoticeRinggold County Hazard Mitigation Plan Available

A draft version of the Ringgold County Hazard Mitigation Plan is nearly complete. This important plan will identify hazards that most affect the county, including cities and schools, and will contain a list of proposed projects to make those hazards less damaging. Jurisdictions that approve the plan will become eligible for federal funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to complete hazard mitigation projects. The planning team for this effort desires public comment on the plan. The draft plan, not including appen-dices and maps, has been placed for public viewing at the following loca-tions: • Ringgold County Courthouse Emergency Management Offi ce, 109 W. Madison, Mount Ayr; • Mount Ayr Public Library, 121 West Monroe, Mount Ayr, • Electronic version available at www.sicog.com. Comments or suggestions of any nature can be made to: • In writing to Andrew Collings, Southern Iowa Council of Govern-ments, P.O. Box 102, 101 E. Mont-gomery Street, Creston, IA 50801; • By email to Andrew Collings at collings@sicog.com, • By phone at 641-782-8491. 5-1t

March 25, 2013 The Ringgold County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, March 25, 2013. The meet-ing was called to order at 9 a.m. with the following members present: Da-vid Inloes, Royce Dredge and Kraig Pennington. A motion was made by Royce Dredge and seconded by Kraig Pen-nington to approve the agenda with the cancellation of Group Benefi ts and Lizzie Hanawalt due to weather. AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. A motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge to approve the previous min-utes. AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. Greg Sharp and Lyle Hogue met with the board on behalf of the American Legion. Sharp mentioned utilities run $1,000 every month; they pay $1,000 per year for insur-ance and $1,200 per year for a liquor permit. The organization also pays $3,500 quarterly to the Department of Revenue. The American Legion receives $150 per month from Area 14 Agency on Aging for the meal site. The revenue received does not cover expenses. Sharp noted that this is the Legion’s contribution to the community. Sharp added that all money from bar sales goes to char-ity; the Legion has no paid employ-ees. Sharp ended with stating taxes are too much money for the Legion to pay as they are already struggling because the income does not keep the organization going. County assessor Neil Morgan stated the organization is half profi t half exempt. Morgan said the Legion could be 75 percent exempt if they have documentation to demonstrate this. Greg Sharp questioned whether tax payments made this month as well as September 2013 and March 2014 are set in stone. The board of supervisors can only intervene if a business or organization can show an inability/hardship to pay the taxes owed. At that point the supervisors can abate or suspend the tax bill. Sharp added that the bar operates as a catering service. Dredge and Pennington want to keep the Legion open and serv-ing community. The board agreed to abate the taxes for the American Legion for payments made in March 2013, September 2013 and March 2014. Assessor Morgan mentioned the deadline for the American Le-gion to request a change in assess-ment is April 15. Morgan asked the board if their opinion is to make the organization tax exempt. The board agrees that is what should be done. The fi nal deci-sion is made by assessor Morgan. Vic Lilienthal met with the board to review his contract with secondary roads. Inloes is preparing a contract for county attorney Clint Spurrier to review and then it will be presented to Lilienthal and Lizzie Hanawalt. At that time an agreement on terms can be made. The board tabled the approval of the Ramsey Farms liquor permit. The board opened fuel bids for sec-ondary roads. Robert Schlapia with RK Fuels was present. They were as follows: RK Fuels, $289,135.65 and MFA Oil, $290,048.15. Engineer Zach Gunsolley met with the board to review secondary roads updates. He reviewed the fi nal draft of the fi ve-year program for his department. This is a program report that has to be submitted to the DOT on a yearly basis. Projects are not set in stone and can be changed through-out the year if needed. Gunsolley discussed the J45 project between Ringgold county and Decatur coun-ty. Gunsolley recommended to the board that Decatur county survey the Ringgold county portion of J45 since they have already had their portion surveyed. Decatur county will be the lead county on this project. Nicole Fox and Charlie Purcell with the Department of Transporta-

tion met with the board to conduct a training session regarding the DOT program as it relates to secondary roads.

RESOLUTION RC13–71 WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors here-by approves to abate the American Legion, parcel 006323, taxes due March 2013, September 2013 and March 2014. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 25, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–72 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby ac-cepts the fuel contract of RK Fuels. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 25, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–73 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby ap-proves the DOT Secondary Roads budget. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Royce Dredge and sec-onded by Kraig Pennington stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 25, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–74 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby ap-proves the DOT Secondary Roads Construction Program. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 25, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–75 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby approves the Denco crack repair quote. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Royce Dredge and sec-onded by Kraig Pennington stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 25, 2013. There was no further business. A motion was made by Kraig Penning-ton and seconded by Royce Dredge to adjourn the meeting at 4:33 p.m. DAVID INLOES ChairmanATTEST: AMANDA WASKE Ringgold County Auditor

Tingley

Wishard Chapel

Carol McCreary • 464-3178

April 1 - Easter Sunday brought 103 worshipers to Wishard Chapel Community Church. Pastor Bill Armstrong’s sermon was entitled “Empty Spaces.” First Things First presented a song “If Not For the Old Rugged Cross.” Easter gift bags were presented to all the chil-dren attending. The Wow meeting planned for Wednesday this week is postponed until next Wednesday, April 10, at 6 p.m. at the church before Bible study. Bible study will resume as usu-al next week. On Friday, April 5, Wishard Chapel will help with packaging meals. If you wish to help, call Sandy Armstrong for a spot and a time. Wishard Chapel took part in the Breakfast With The Master last week on Wednesday at the Chris-tian church. Pastor Bill had the ser-mon, Carol Anne McCreary sang “I’ll Pray for You, You Pray for Me,” Connie Richards and Marion Jennings were greeters and Benson Hainline helped cook pancakes. Others from Wishard helped with the cleanup. Connie and Doyle Richards hosted a Richards family Easter dinner. Jodie Beerman, Lexie, Sa-die and Maci came from Norwalk and other guests were Kris and Bruce Quick, Ashton and Austin, Colton and Amelia Quick and Jax-on, Cacey Wilson, Braden Barber and Lucille Main. Family attending Easter dinner with the McCrearys were Mike and Grace Warin, Jodie Wurster, Nick, Luke and Brad, Tom Bradley and Cooper, Faith Shinkle and Barbie Belzer, Andrew and Laurie Anne. First Things First gospel singing group will be singing and having the morning service next Sunday, April 7, at the Christian church in Creston.

April 1 - What’s new at Tin-gley? Another party. All April birthdays will be honored at a par-ty to be held at the Tingley meal site Friday, April 5. The special en-tertainment will be provided by the Friday Singers. April Fools’ Day came a week early for most of them. They woke up to a covering of snow and some ice last Monday morning. Some minor adjustments and everything was set to go on as usual for the

meal site. A few were extra cau-tious and didn’t venture out to the meal site. Lloyd and Muriel John-son enjoyed having their daugh-ter, Linda Ness, accompany them. Peggy Skarda and Virginia Walden were on hand to provide some mu-sic for those present. Karon Naomi brought another lovely paint-ing she’d just fi nished. Virginia Walden brought a joke to share to add a touch of humor to the day. A large number of band mem-bers showed up to entertain Tues-day. They included accompanist Carmene James, plus Bonnie Manders, Dorothy Clough, Bill and Norma Webb, Iona Triggs, Dick and Virginia Walden, Evelyn Sickels, Doris Overholser, Junior Brown, Mary Jane Narigon, Dave Patch, Harold Brown and Marge Werner. They didn’t realize they’d be the special entertainment for a birthday party being held there for Maxine Werner, who observed her 92nd birthday on Wednesday, March 27. Present to celebrate with Maxine were her daughter, Nancy Kelly, and Race; her son, Steve Werner; a granddaughter, Ju-lie Ingram; a retired teacher friend, Leona Driskill; former neighbors, Jack and Althea Hoffman; pastor, Lila and Jack Greene; sister-in-law, Marge Werner; niece, Jean-nette Buell, and a host of meal site friends. All extended her a happy birthday. Maxine’s family treated everyone to hot fudge sundaes. Friday was Good Friday. This was the meal site’s Easter. Eas-ter bonnets, along with the Fri-day Singers, provided the day’s special entertainment and special it was. The Singers included ac-companist Kay Henderson, direc-tor Bonnie Manders, plus Bill and Norma Webb, Dorothy Clough, Marge Werner, Iona Triggs, Don and Darlene Wimmer, Dick and Virginia Walden, Harold Brown, Dave Patch, Mary Jane Narigon and Peggy Wagenknecht. Such a big number and variety of hats showed up. The singers closed with “Easter Parade,” whereby those in hats paraded, modeling their bonnets for all, especially the two judges, Ethel Campbell and Mary Sue McIntosh. All then had an opportunity to step forth to tell something about their hat as a last-minute chance to sway the judges to pick them. Wish it would have been possible to have a picture of everyone with hats. They were all so good and there were so many. Judges fi nally picked their top four choices to be the Easter dinner cook, Mary Jane Narigon; Easter fun, Marge Werner; classic hat, Dorothy Clough, and the man cir-cuit rider, Dick Walden. Everyone with a hat received something for their efforts. Hopefully they had as much fun with hats as those there watching did. Nancy Jarred provided treat cups for all to enjoy. Lloyd and Kay Drake were welcomed home Friday. They have just returned to their home in Tin-gley this week after spending the winter months in Texas.

MaloyJoan Jackson • 785-2210

April 1 - Richard and Carole Davison hosted Easter dinner Sun-day. Those present were David, Diana and Chad Pedersen and Joyce Davison of Maryville, MO, Jim, Brenda and Samuel Jorgensen of Norwalk, Michael Jorgensen of

Des Moines, Mikaeka Jorgensen of Chicago, IL, Rod, Darla, Jori, Shelby and Levi Davison of Cos-by, MO and Robert, Julie, Laura and Amber Davison of Maloy. Tim and Mel Burton hosted family for an egg hunt and lunch Easter Sunday. Mel’s family from Winterset, her sister from Des Moines and Tim’s mother and sis-ter were able to attend. Katelyn Warin was home from Iowa State University for Easter break. Her family enjoyed hearing about her recent study trip abroad to Spain. She did this over the ISU spring break. Saturday evening guests in the Wendell Jackson home were Curt, Kevin, Melanie, Wyatt and Han-nah Jackson. Wyatt Jackson and Riley Wee-hler had a track meet in Osceola Friday afternoon. Kathi Braby’s nieces, Sydney and Ciera Haynes of Omaha, NE, stayed over night with the Brabys Wednesday evening. Becky, Jamie and Jessi Heilman and friend Kaile of Van Horne ar-rived Friday for the weekend with Dick and Joyce Weehler. Saturday evening they celebrated Jamie and Jessi’s 16th birthday with a barbe-cue. Neil, Jill, Riley and Payton Weehler, Jordan Stewart, Jensen Stewart and her friend, Hanna, and Randy, Kim, Mallory and Evan Weehler attended. Megan Warin played in the three-on-three basketball tourna-ment in Mount Ayr Saturday. She and her teammates, Macy Larsen, Tessa Shields and Kelcie Shields, were champions of the girls middle school division. Melanie and Hannah Jackson attended the high school track meet in Osceola Friday. Hannah Jackson went with other TAG students to Creston Wednesday. They participated in a windmill competition. Her team placed third. The families of Joe and Linda Murphy had their Easter celebra-tion Sunday evening. Those who attended were Kevin, Melanie, Wyatt and Hannah Jackson, Jared, Leslie, Rhett and Zach Murphy and Justin, Jessica, Ayla and Kaley Murphy. Joan Jackson visited in the Erin Jackson home in Maryville, MO Wednesday afternoon. The Joe Warin family enjoyed church Sunday in Lenox. Later they went to the home of Willa Poore in Mount Ayr for a family dinner with Donna’s family. Easter dinner at Dick and Joyce Weehler’s Sunday was attended by Neil, Jill, Riley and Payton Wee-hler, Jordan and Jensen Stewart and friend Hanna, Becky, Jamie, Jessi Heilman and friend Kaile of Van Horne and Diane Weehler of Des Moines.

Clearview Estates

April 4 - Well, tenants are think-ing that spring is here. Well they are at least hoping that it is. Every-one enjoyed the last few days of March. It was good to get out and walk outside or even just sit in the sun. The weather also cooperated to allow them to have two Easter egg hunts. They enjoyed seeing the kids full of energy run around. Kids just brighten their spirits. Tenants started out the month of March with the Friday Sing-ers entertaining. Other music to their ears through the month were the Tingley Kitchen Band and the Tuesday morning music in the morning group. The activity gals had an ice cream social on March 4. You can never go wrong with ice cream. All attended the high school play on the evening of March 9. They had a good time and the kids did very well. Con-grats to Shaun Kniep and her gang. The nature program was March 11 and everyone learned new things about fi sh. Tuesday afternoons after bingo they spent some time playing hangman, learning about Saint Patrick’s Day, remembering nursery rhymes, fi lling Easter eggs with goodies for the kids and en-joying other mind trivia and word scrambles. Monday afternoons everyone has enjoyed coffee uptown but this month tenants had a couple days they did not get out and enjoyed hot chocolate and French vanilla coffee at home. Everyone fi nishes up Monday afternoons with nail care. They enjoyed shopping trips this month uptown, Creston and the general store at Clearview Homes. Women’s day out was spent in Creston and men’s day out was spent in Lamoni. Bingo is a hit on Tuesday and Friday afternoons and they have a pizza party fol-lowed by bingo the last Saturday evening of the month. Pastor Chris Conklin came and

ate with tenants and entertained accompanied by Ermil Hainline on their guitars. Pastor Skip and members of the Methodist church have coffee and goodies the third Friday of the month. Tenants really enjoy the conversation with folks from the community. This draws a big crowd. Sunday morning before Sunday school all gather for cof-fee and donuts. This is a good time to catch up with everyone on how their week has gone and plans for the next. If tenants went to every-thing, they would never get a nap in and they sure can’t complain of being bored. The daffodils and tu-lips have erupted from the ground. Tenants are praying for April showers and warm weather. Other visitors in were Vic and Jeannie Ruff, Emily and Cecilia Burroughs, Aaron Ruff, Wanda McGahuey and Barb Walter with Donella Johnson; Patty Stark, Alyce Mattis, Do-nElla Reed and Louise Frost with Thelma Grimes; Ron and Karen Saltzman, Do-ris Drake, Steven Saltzman, Amy Saltzman and Barbara Foy with Nina Saltzman; Randall Nickle, George and Leona Barker and Luella Wilson with Ruth Nickle; Keith and Rhonda Hunt, Doris Overholser, Emma Bentley, Mar-garet Saville, Marjorie Tully and Megan Carter with Amon Hunt; Diane Saltzman, Lorrie Haver and Charles and Jasper Abarr with Frances Saltzman; Marvin and Melonie Lane and Jim, Megan, Evan and Maggie Stuck with Marjorie McFarland; Dick and Camille Jackson, Raymond Banner and the Swersie family with Esther Jackson; Doug and Sherri Hymbaugh with Dwight Cunning; Benson and D’Ambra Hainline, Alan and Dianna Wilson, Lafe, Missy, Liam, Maren and Isley Smith and Cail Hainline and his family with Ermil Hainline; Jim Ward, Roxie Trullinger and Cathy Ward with Jessie Woollums, and Ted and Ronda Smith, Ray-mond Banner and Terry Lininger with Rena Smith.

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