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On to stateHandshakes and high-fi ves from coaches Eric Ehlen (left) and John Ford greet Erik Freed as he walks off the mat after his fi rst-place fi nish at the district wrestling tournament at Corning Saturday. The Raider 132-pounder will open state tournament action Thursday mornng. More details about the district tournament can be found on page 8 of today’s Record-News.

A pleasant surprise awaited players, parents and fans who attended the fi nal home game of the basketball season Tuesday, Feb. 5. In connec-tion with the annual Parents’ Night recognition, a banner hung on the east wall of the gymnasium to congratulate this year’s seniors as they approach graduation. Similar in design to the banner dedicated to the recent Ron Scott Duals wrestling tournament, the banner was designed by Podium Ink and sponsored by the athletic department. Mount Ayr

activities director Delwyn Showalter said he hoped to have a number of banners available to display on a rotating basis throughout the year. The current banner will remain in place through graduation. Brad El-liott of Podium Ink said the space on the wall had seemed bare since the silhouettes of athletes had been painted over a few years ago, and the banners seemed perfect for that location. More details about Parents’ Night can be found on page 8 in this week’s Record-News.

Honoring the seniors

BY MADISON HOSFIELD The life span of a sniper in the Russian army is extremely unpre-dictable. But to have that life end up in a small town in southwest Iowa was even more unpredictable for one Russian girl in particular. The roots of some families branch farther than you would think; this is true for one family es-pecially. Dr. Daniel Weddle and his family have an interesting back-ground that will leave you wanting to learn more. Angelina Gritsenko, mother of Dan Weddle of Mount Ayr, was born in Mariupol, Ukraine in 1923 where she grew up as a Russian girl. Around the age of 16, Ange-lina started attending the Univer-sity of Kiev in Ukraine. During her fourth year of college, the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II broke out and she became part of the Red Army. Along with about 2,000 others, Angelina was trained to be a sniper, a person who picked off enemy offi cers. The Russians tried to fi ght the Germans before they reached Stal-ingrad, but they were out-mas-tered. The Russians were camping in a low valley when the Germans surrounded them with their tanks on an early, wet, rainy morning. The Germans started shooting, and many Russians were wounded and lost their lives. One of the many injured was Angelina Gritsenko. She was knocked unconscious and lay in her spot for hours, not able to get away. While the Germans continued on in the valley to gather survivors, Angelina had woken up and col-lected herself. She knew when the Germans came back and discov-ered she was a sniper, she would have no life to look forward to. She soon encountered a Soviet nurse who had lost her life. With-out second thought, she traded pa-pers with the nurse, attempting to save her life. Angelina Gritsenko was now Angelina Sorochenko. The Germans gathered the sur-vivors and started them on their march from west of Stalingrad to nearly Poland to reach the prisoner camp. This was close to a death walk as they had little to noth-ing to eat. When they got close to town, the guards let them scrounge for food in trash cans or wherever they could fi nd. Although Ange-lina did not, some of the prisoners even took place in gathering food from a deceased horse carcass and became very sick. As long as she could keep up on the walk, she was okay. One particular encounter Dr.

Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series focusing on the issue of infrastructure main-tenance in Ringgold county, spe-cifi cally roads and bridges. This week’s subject is extraordinarily complex issue of road funding com-ing to the county. Regardless of the complexity, an understanding of the sources of revenue available to the county is crucial to any plan to address the county’s deteriorating infrastructure. For fi scal year 2013, Ringgold county engineer Zach Gunsolley reported a budget of $2.956 million for the county road department, and like all other Iowa counties, Ring-gold county relies overwhelmingly on state funds to construct, repair and maintain its roads and bridges. In fact, 79 percent of the second-ary roads budget come from a va-riety of state sources. The other 21 percent comes from local property taxes. State funds coming to the county fl ow from the Road Use Tax Fund and the Time-21 Fund. All money received from the state, with the exceptions of “farm-to-market” dollars and proceeds from local property tax, are held in the county account under the direction of the board of supervisors and comprise the county’s road budget. The Farm-to-Market Fund along with some federal funds are under the control of the state de-partment of transportation and fed-eral offi cials and are not fi gured in the county budget. Road Use Tax Fund (RUTF) The RUTF was established by the Iowa legislature in 1949 at the beginning of the heyday of road construction in Iowa. As time has passed, however, a larger share of the RUTF has gone to the state and the cities and less has gone to counties. The state legislature has es-tablished the current formula by which funds are to be distributed: 47.5 percent to primary roads (un-der state jurisdiction), 24.5 percent to secondary roads (under county jurisdiction), 20 percent to city streets and eight percent to farm-to-market roads, also under county jurisdiction.

A visual representation of the various state transportation funds is available on the Iowa Department of Trans-portation website. While the fi ne print is obviously too diffi cult to read in this small space, the complexity of the state’s funding system is quite apparent.

School board learns of bus grant, adopts 2013-2014 calendar The Mount Ayr Community school board of directors received word of the awarding of a federal bus grant, adopted the 2013-2014 school calendar and covered a wide range of other items at its regular meeting Monday, Feb. 11.Bus grant The Mount Ayr district has been chosen as a recipient of a Clean Diesel School Bus Rebate Program rebate from the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency. The district now has 90 days to sub-mit a purchase order for two new buses with delivery between July and October. During that time the buses to be replaced by the new ones must be scrapped. Mount Ayr was the only Iowa school district granted such a rebate from over 1,000 applications nationwide. The rebate is $30,000 each for two buses with capacity of at least 65 passengers. Each bus costs ap-proximately $95,000, so the dis-trict is still responsible for roughly $65,000 for each bus. Superinten-dent Joe Drake explained district buses are purchased through the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) fund. The fund has a current balance of $10,000, but another $70,000 will come into the fund in the spring when the dis-trict receives its tax revenues. The $80,000 total in PPLE combined with the $60,000 in grant money leaves a balance of roughly $55,000 for the district to fund from other means. Drake presented a couple options to the board including us-ing its unspent balance authority to fund the one-time expenditure.School calendar The board approved the school calendar for the 2013-2014 school year. Under the calendar, students will begin school Tuesday, Aug. 20 and get out Friday, May 23.

Christmas break will run for two full weeks from Monday, Dec. 23 to Friday, Jan. 3. As in years past, the week-long spring break coin-cides with the Southwestern Com-munity College break and will run from Friday, Mar. 14 through Friday, Mar. 21. Makeup days for inclement weather are May 27, 28, 29, 30, March 21 and March 20 in that order. Parent-teacher confer-ences are set for November 5 and 7 in the fall and March 11 and 13 in the spring. The number of days in each se-mester is unbalanced for the com-ing year. The 86-day fi rst semester will end prior to Christmas break. The second semester will total 94 days. Superintendent Drake said the decision was made to end the semester prior to Christmas be-cause students would have only three days of school prior to se-mester tests in January if the two semesters were equal. He and sec-ondary principal Lynne Wallace agreed that arrangement would not benefi t students. Teachers will have full-day professional development running August 13, 14, 15 and 19 prior to the beginning of school. January 3 and February 21 are also set aside as full professional development days. Early-dismissal professional development days are set for Sep-tember 18, December 13, January 17 and April 18.Personnel The board accepted the early re-tirement request from high school social studies teacher Pam Cross. They also accepted the resigna-tions of Joe Catanzareti as middle school boys basketball coach, Mark Budach as assistant girls bas-ketball coach and Jackie McVey as a food service employee. The early retirement policy for classifi ed employees was ap-

proved. Under the policy classi-fi ed employees age 55 or older on or before June 30 of the current year and who have completed 15 years of service to the district are eligible to receive an early retire-ment incentive. The incentive will be fi gured at 10 percent of the em-ployee’s current year’s salary less supplemental pay or extended

Van Maanen, Sietstra & Meyer, P.C., Certifi ed Public Ac-countants recently released an audit report on the Mount Ayr Community school district. The district’s revenues totaled $9,587,432 for the year ended June 30, 2012, a 0.2 percent decrease from the prior year. Revenues included $4,157,311 in local tax, charges for service of $1,020,488, operating grants, contributions and restricted in-terest of $1,651,996, unrestrict-ed interest of $11,766 and other general revenues of $2,745,871. Expenses for district op-erations totaled $9,438,512, a 0.7 percent increase from the prior year. Expenses included $5,277,988 for instruction, $2,584,052 for support services, $1,135,210 for other expendi-tures and $441,262 for non-in-structional programs. A copy of the audit report is available for review in the dis-trict secretary’s offi ce, in the offi ce of the auditor of state and the auditor of state’s web site at http://auditor.iowa.gov/reports/reports.htm.

Annual audit released for MAC schools

Local connection to WWII Russian sniper, Dachau prison camp

The Clearfi eld Lions Club will host representatives from Lions International leading up to publi-cation of a feature story in the or-ganization’s offi cial magazine. The Clearfi eld Lions plan a community celebration to wel-come the visitors Saturday, Feb. 16 beginning at 11 a.m. According to Gaylen Bell, president of the local chapter, he received a call from Lions Inter-national asking how such a small town as Clearfi eld could have the largest Lions chapter in the state. After a number of phone con-versations and exchanged pictures, the organization offi cers decided to

visit Clearfi eld to see the chapter for themselves. A feature story in the Lions International magazine will chronicle their visit. “This is truly a great event for the entire area,” said Bell. “Ap-proximately 1.4 million Lions members worldwide receive this magazine.” As part of the celebration, the Clearfi eld Lions will serve a free soup dinner that Saturday. Bell said his chapter hopes to host at least 100 visitors that day, and he extends an invitation to all Lions and area residents to be part of the Clearfi eld event. A community pic-ture will be taken on Main Street during the celebration.

Clearfi eld Lions to be focus of national publication

Weddle’s mother had on the march was with a German offi cer. While they were resting, a couple of SS soldiers came upon the group and whispered something in the guard’s ear. While doing so, they pointed towards Angelina, and she started becoming a bit nervous. The guard approached her and told her there was a wounded German offi cer, and due to the fact that she was

identifi ed as a nurse, she needed to take care of him. She did so, the best she could, and went without being questioned. They had walked as far as they needed and were put on a train to ride the last little way to their work camp in Poland. Here, they worked producing ammunition for the Ger

Funding for county roads complex topicSecond part of series explains sources of county road money

Money collected in the RUTF comes from a number of sources. Governor Branstad’s Transporta-tion 2020 committee estimated revenues for Fiscal Year 2011 at $470 million (39 percent) in annual vehicle registrations, $430 million (36 percent) in fuel tax, $240 mil-lion in new vehicle registrations and $70 million in drivers’ license fees, title fees, trailer registrations and other minor sources. Registration fees are based upon vehicle type, weight and model year, so estimating a “typical” fee for a resident is diffi cult. However, other taxes and fees can be broken down more easily. Motorists cur-rently purchasing fuel at an Iowa pump pay 21 cents per gallon in fuel tax for regular gasoline, 19 cents per gallon for ethanol-blend-ed gasoline and 22.5 cents per gal-lon for diesel. (The Iowa fuel tax has remained unchanged since 1989, when gas prices hovered near one dollar per gallon.) Driv-ers’ license fees range from $20 to

$65, title fees are $25 and trailer registrations run from $20 to $30. The state divides RUTF money coming to the county into two dif-ferent funds. • Secondary Road Fund (24.5 percent of RUTF)

Nearly two-thirds of the sec-ondary roads budget for Ring-gold county comes from the state Secondary Road Fund. For fi scal year 2013, this fund accounted for

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The Ringgold county board of supervisors covered a number of fi nancial and transportation items during its meeting Monday, Feb. 11. The supervisors voted to in-crease the surety bond for the county treasurer’s and extension offi ces. Bonds were increased from $50,000 to $300,000 for the treasurer and from $50,000 to $250,000 for extension. Surety bonds help insure for losses due to offi cial malfeasance. County engineer Zach Gunsol-ley gained board approval to seek bids for one culvert project on county road P33. The board also

approved a Transportation Safety Improvement Program grant from the Iowa DOT to educate the pub-lic about weight limits and other restrictions on county roads and bridges. The amount of the grant is $37,080. As part of Gunsolley’s time with the board, Sgt. Rod Riner was on hand to discuss Iowa Department of Transportation vehicle enforce-ment. He answered supervisors’ questions about posted weight limits on county bridges and other issues related to county roads. Ri-ner informed the board any vehicle that violates a posted weight limit is subject to citation for a moving violation.

Supervisors raise surety bond, talk roads

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Mystery dinner for Valentine’s DayTHOUGHTS& other thingsBY ALAN SMITH

Valle and I had fun Sunday night getting in the Valentine’s Day mood with a Valentine Mystery Dinner put on by the youth of our church group. The event was held at my brother Ron’s home in Lamoni where the youth had decorated the big room on the second fl oor of their modifi ed A frame for the occasion. They had made homemade valentines for each of those attending, the tables were decorated with Valentine’s Day decorations and they had even made special pink mints as appetizers on the table. A large pink sheet, however, separated the tables from the food preparation area. After a prayer, the youth, who were our servers, presented us with the mystery dinner menu. There were 15 numbered items and we were to choose fi ve at a time to be served. Using some puns, the group had come up with the names for the items to be served, but they were obscure enough that it wasn’t easy to guess what was coming -- especially the fi rst round. I thought I would try the shotgun method for my fi rst choice, so I put down 1, 4, 8, 12 and 15. I fi gured I would catch something I liked with that approach. I was soon served Cupid’s Arrow (a knife), Little Girl Scouts (a Brownie), a Slobber Robber (napkin), Cupid’s Wings (potato chips), and Invisible Love (an empty glass). Sticking to my diet was out of the question, but I did just take a nibble of the potato chips, knowing their sodium content. I picked up the brownie and ate it and waited for the next round. What I didn’t realize was that they took away ev-erything you had been given before moving on to the next round. I thought I would stick with my fi rst plan, so or-dered 2, 5, 9 and 13 for my next round. I realized I only had listed four things as I mistakenly put down 12 again. My order of Popeye’s Delight (three olives), Love Potion (a dip of ice cream), The Joker (a ham and cheese sandwich) and Wiggley’s Dream (a piece of red jello) was served up, along with another serv-ing of potato chips that I couldn’t eat. I picked up on the joke about Popeye’s valentine (Olive Oil) but it took a little longer to catch that hamming it up was a joke. This time I did not have any plastic ware to eat with. That was not a problem for the olives, sand-wich or the stiff slice of jello. They were all fi nger food. Not so much so with the ice cream, since my nap-kin had been taken away after the fi rst course. Since my hosts knew I couldn’t have a great amount of ice cream anyway, I fi nally decided to just pick up the plate and slurp it up. Valle said that wasn’t any dif-ferent than licking my ice cream bowl, which I have been known to do to get the last drop. It might not be the kind of activity one would think of on a special Valentine’s Day “date,” but everyone was having one kind of a challenge or another.

I had passed off most of my potato chips to a neighbor’s plate by this time, but I did make sort of a mess with the leftovers when I picked up my plate to eat the ice cream. When I was ready for the third course, I chose 3, 6, 7, 10 and 11. I chose not to take 14 since I had messed up and taken 12 twice. I received a Young Lover (a spoon), Diamond Studs (carrots), Puppet Potion (red punch), Pure Love (water) and Sour Love (pickles). You might have to be a little older to catch the signifi cance of spooning and change the spelling of carrots to catch the diamond reference. But I accomplished each of these. The spoon wasn’t much help with the carrots or pickles, but I managed to fi nish off the banquet. I missed out on Hay Maker, the fork, but by then that wouldn’t have helped much. Everyone was a good sport and once we were all served, there was the opportunity to help fi nish up the leftovers after our servers took the time to stop and have the meal as well. The tables were cleared away and it was time for the “Newlywed” Challenge. None of the cou-ples fi t that bill but it was fun to fi nd out about each other as fi rst the husbands and then the wives were asked to give answers to a series of questions that the other spouse then tried to match. Questions were asked about what the couples’ fi rst date was, what kind of vehicle they drove when they were fi rst dating, what the husband’s favorite food was, what the wife’s favorite color was, and so on. For the most part Valle and I had the answers match up. Our fi rst date was a barn party when we were at Graceland College, I didn’t have access to a vehicle when we fi rst started dating and Valle’s favorite color is red. Valle had to pick between Egg Fu Yung and Egg Plant Parmesan for my favorite food and picked Egg Fu Yung instead of my egg plant answer. The youngest couple seemed to have the lead early, but my brother and his wife Di came on strong in the end to take the prize -- a movie, Milk Duds and popcorn. Valle and I came in second, but passed our prize of M&M’s and microwave pop-corn on to add to the haul of the third place team. We didn’t want the temptation. All in all it was a fun evening celebrating Val-entine’s Day. The youth were each appropriately thanked for their efforts in getting the Valentine’s season kicked off on a great foot.

Fifty Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 7, 1963.) Mount Ayr has been selected as a site for one of the 64 girls sectional basketball tournaments, the dates for which will be February 12, 14 and 16. Six teams entered for com-petition will be Clearfi eld, Lamoni, Grand Valley, East Union, Diagonal and Mount Ayr. W. T. Timby of this city will be honored at a dinner and 50-year membership presentation ceremony tomorrow (Friday) evening. Mr. Timby completed 50 years of Ma-sonry as an active member of Faith Lodge, No. 179, A. F. & A. M. on January 24. He has also been a member of the York Rite Bodies for a number of years and is a member of the Shrine. Four 4-H leaders, who repre-sented Ringgold county at the annual Leaders’ Recognition Day in Ames, on January 28, are Helen Streebin, county extension assistant, Mrs. Lloyd Goins, Mrs. George Vicker, Raymond Umbarger and D. H. Al-len. Numerous fl owering plants and artistically arranged bouquets added to the beauty of the Clearview Home on the occasion of its formal opening on Saturday and Sunday. Approxi-mately 2,000 persons visited the home. Fire of unknown origin com-pletely destroyed the two-story home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew So-botka, located three miles southeast of Diagonal, while the Sobotkas were in attendance at morning church services. An all-expense-paid trip to the nation’s capitol city will be awarded the winner of an essay-writing contest, announcement of which was made this week by Eldon L. Main, manager of Rideta Electric Cooperative. All high school juniors in the area whose parents are mem-bers served by the cooperative are eligible to enter the contest. Births reported at Ringgold County Hospital this week were a daughter, born Jan. 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Merl Drake of Mount Ayr and a son, born Feb. 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Larry England of Mount Ayr. Obituaries this week were

Corydon Minor Anderson, J. W. Farrington, Owen Emery Laird, Vivian Mae Carter and Evan Grant Culver.

Twenty-fi ve Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 18, 1988.)

What do the new SeaWorld park being built in San Antonio and Mount Ayr have in common? All the seating in the three restaurants that will be part of the new sea life park is being constructed by the new Setmakers plant in Mount Ayr. The contract for the project, the largest single one ever signed by Setmakers or its predeces-sor here, Miracle Recreation Corp., calls for the construction of solid oak furniture for the seating in the restaurants. The Ringgold County Hospital board of trustees voted to ask the county supervisors for a levy for the fi scal year July 1988-June 30, 1989 that would assist with fi nancing the ambulance service. This action was taken at a re-scheduled meeting held February 11 at the hospital confer-ence room. It was explained at the January board meeting and affi rmed at the February one that staffi ng of the service is a problem. Dagmar Becker, a 25-year-old veterinary medical student from West Germany, is spending a six-week work period working at Hilltop Veterinary Clinic in Mount Ayr. She will be making her home with the Weddle family while here. She chose the United States for her practicum after visiting as an exchange student when in high school. Members of the Mount Ayr Community high school academic decathlon team this year included Becky Hannasch, Eric Moe, Jamie Jones, Brent McClure, Jennifer Schaefer, Janell Freihage, Angie Elliott and Jackie Faris. Three seventh graders at Grand Valley Community school topped the junior high spelling bee held there Thursday, Feb. 1. Nicole Stuck took second place, P. J. Munyon was third place and Stacey Foland was fi rst in the contest held between seventh and eighth graders. The top spellers advance to the Area Education Agency spelling bee in Creston February 27. Area busi-

nesses donated prizes which were awarded to the top spellers at the end of the contest. As part of the celebration of Valentine’s Day at the Mount Ayr meal site, a Valentine’s king and queen were named by popular vote. Reigning through the meal at he meal site Friday afternoon were Guy and Opal Dugan of Mount Ayr. Mount Ayr Community’s Raider-ettes and the Murray Lady Mustangs will square off for the girls Class 1A sectional championship Satur-day night in a 7 p.m. contest in the MACHS gymnasium. Diagonal’s Maroons had a suc-cessful busy week of action, picking up victories over Lenox and Lamoni while dropping another close battle with Murray in the lone conference matchup which meant a tie for the loop title. Jeff Scott, Scott England, Cody Shay and Joe Love advanced on the tournament trail to state at the Class 1A Sectional Wrestling Tournament at East Union Saturday, Feb. 13. The Raider team placed third in the eight-team sectional with 122 1/2 points. Andrea Still, a Mount Ayr community eighth grader, was the runner-up in the 12 and 13-year-old age group at the district free throw shooting contest in Red Oak spon-sored by the Elks Clubs Saturday. Still advanced to the district by doing well at the area contest in Creston earlier in the year. She made 17 of 25 free shots in the competition, tying with two others for fi rst place. Through a series of shoot-offs she ended up in the runner-up spot, which does not advance to state competition. Her good free throw shooting ability has been a help to the MAC eighth grade girls basketball team during the season. The Bluegrass Quail Unlimited chapter, the fi rst Quail Unlimited chapter in Iowa, has recently been organized for upland game enthu-siasts in Adams, Ringgold, Taylor and Union counties. Randall Lynch of Kent, a Ringgold county native, is serving as chairman of the new chapter and helped get it organized. There are currently 28 members of the chapter. Obituaries this week were Bert T. Butterfi eld, Jenne Maye Lesan,

Willard F. “Bill” Ruby and Goldie Marie Smith Hammer.

Ten Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 6, 2003.) Budgeting for the state for the coming fi scal year, supplemental appropriations already passed and information on bills on which ac-tion is eminent were among topics for the state legislators at the fi rst of the Ringgold county legislative coffees for the year. State senator Jeff Angelo of Creston and state representative Cecil Dolecheck of Mount Ayr shared information and then answered questions from the area residents who attended the ses-sion Saturday afternoon at Pheasant Run Steakhouse in Mount Ayr. Ses-sions will be held the fi rst Saturday in March and the fi rst Saturday in April as well. Mount Ayr Community high school’s MathCounts team brought home the trophy for the best score by a small-school team at the regional MathCounts competition held at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs. Teams of junior high students from 17 schools par-ticipated in the regional competition. The Mount Ayr Community team included Zach Lynch, Lucas Smith, Brian Inloes and Grant Larsen. The Raider team will advance to the state competition to be held at Drake Uni-versity on March 14. James Smith was sponsor for the team. Plans for the Register’s An-nual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) are being made for a southern Iowa route which could take riders through Mount Ayr this year. That was another bit of infor-mation shared at the Mount Ayr city council meeting Monday night. The riders would be traveling through Mount Ayr, not making an evening stop here, so one regulation would be that entertainment and booths would be asked to close by 1:30 p.m. to encourage riders to move along the way to the next overnight stop. Dr. Peggy Whitson had come to her parents’ home near Beaconsfi eld Friday to be here for the public af-fairs visits to area sites beginning Monday. Her visits to schools in Mount Ayr, Bedford and Lamoni were postponed this week by the shuttle disaster which took place Saturday morning. All NASA public affairs events for astronauts were postponed for the week. With the loss of the Shuttle Columbia and its seven crew members Saturday morning, Whitson returned to Hous-ton Sunday. Mount Ayr Chamber of Com-merce members held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday morning at Ring-gold County Chiropractic Clinic, located at 116 W. Adams Street in Mount Ayr. Cody Woodward, owner and licensed chiropractor, has remodeled the building. Obituaries in this issue were Eva Maye Waddell Deemer and Katheryn Janiece Weigart Glenden-ning.

mans. The prisoners of war were given little food; soup twice a day is what their meals usually con-sisted of, if it could even be called soup. It contained water, a couple pieces of potato and cabbage. Due to working so hard and not having enough food to keep her strength up, Angelina got rundown and could no longer effectively work. She was sent to Dachau, a concen-tration camp in southern Germany. Dr. Weddle’s father, Victor Weddle, was part of an artillery unit where he drove a truck haul-ing ammunition. He was originally from Worth County, MO when he was drafted to become an Ameri-can GI in 1942. His travels took him to southern Germany, which was in the same proximity as An-gelina at the time. After the Americans eventually liberated Dachau, Angelina and Victor came in contact while they were both staying at Tell Am See,a lake near Munich. “There was a lot of stuff to be done, but there was also a quite a bit of leisure time. That’s when my parents met,” said Dr. Weddle with a chuckle. The war ended in 1945, and An-

gelina and Victor started their life together. The two got married in Munich in 1945 and had their fi rst child in March 1946. That summer, Victor was to be sent home. Being a part of the motor pool as a GI, Victor stole a jeep for a short while and drove his wife and son to Le-Havre, France. Here, Angelina and her son boarded a boat to New York City. Without knowing any Eng-lish, besides the form of English the American GIs used, Angelina spent a few days in New York City with her son before her husband reached them. Angelina was in awe by New York City and couldn’t be-lieve all of the food and people.

Her husband fi nally reached them in New York after about a week, and the three of them headed for the midwest. She kept the name of Angelina Sorochenko, the identity of the nurse, until she got married, even signing her marriage papers as Angelina S. Weddle. Dr. Weddle added his mother never referred to herself as a sniper, but as a sharp-shooter. If anyone ever complained about life as an American, Angeli-na was the fi rst to get after them after living in harsh conditions for three years as a prisoner of war. Angelina passed away in 1974, leaving behind a great story to tell.

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Frustration with the politics of and the lack of progress on a 2012 Farm Bill is leading to creative fl ows of juices within the farming community -- and beyond. While the latest bill remains stalled in the Senate and the stop-gap extension passed earlier does real damage to the spirit of the bill, a group at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, based in Minneapolis (and Washington), has begun discus-sions on ways to have an entirely new federal agricultural policy, one that transcends the old model of a farm bill. The ITATP said the farm bill concept has become an impotent tool, that instead of addressing the challenges of the modern food sys-tem, it has become a “patchwork of programs that not only fail to support each other, but often con-tradict and undermine each other.” In addition, ITATP believes that corporate infl uence (money) keeps real reform in Washington at bay. The group believes that can be ended by adoption of a new way forward. ITATP said that absent a “larger discussion about overarching goals for (the) farm and food system we want, this failure is no surprise.” “In fact, said ITATP, the Farm Bill largely ignores the deep sys-temic challenges plaguing our farmers and food system: wild fl uctuations in agriculture prices that hurt farmers and consumers, skyrocketing land prices that keep beginning farmers off the land,

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the exploitation of farm and food workers, the growing market pow-er of big corporations who over-whelm local food systems built to connect with their community, and rising income inequality that keeps healthy food out of reach for many, despite its availability.” Now, the group said, is the time to “think differently.” The ITATP is launching a new initiative designed to work with partners and experts to “identify new policy proposals that go Be-yond the Farm Bill” to build an al-ternative to it. They want to create a public policy agenda that supports, they said, as “a fair and sustainable food and farm system grounded in the values of resiliency, justice, health and sovereignty. The ITATP is not grounded in

traditional farm bill aspirations. It tends to look at farm policy more as social policy than as broader-based economic policy. While most farming interest groups asso-ciated with the traditional farm bill process represent farmers, com-modities and corporate agriculture groups, the ITATP is looking at exploitation of farm workers, the health of those workers and work-ers in packing plants and the idea of breaking the perceived corporate stranglehold on U.S. ag policy. If their collaboration sup-planted traditional farm bill policy development, it is possible the deadlock in Washington would be broken, and needed reform in how we treat workers and who controls ag policy might take place, but is also likely that farm policy would no longer be closely infl uenced by farmers and their direct interests. Remember, the lion’s share of any farm bill is social policy, i.e. food stamps and school nutrition pro-grams. We might break the dead-lock, but would we break the back of production agriculture whilst we do it? I’ll see ya!

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(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)

January 31-February 6, 2012Thursday, January 31

8:07 a.m., message for sheriff. (OC) 9:30 a.m., caller with questions about deputy schedule. (MA) 9:35 a.m., caller wanting to speak to the sheriff. 11:44 a.m., person checking in. 1:36 p.m., caller advising that they are leaving the county now. 3:20 p.m., caller requesting that a welfare check be done. (MA) 4:08 p.m., caller with questions regarding an inmate. (OC) 4:24 p.m., REC call, caller will call back during business hours.

Friday, February 1 9:26 a.m., call for jail. (MA) 9:28 a.m., caller reporting a scam. (DI) 9:41 a.m., call for sheriff re-garding a gun. (MA) 10:29 a.m., call about vehicle hold. 10:52 a.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 11 a.m., call for sheriff. (MA) 11:25 a.m., call for dispatch. (RE) 11:34 a.m., call for jail. (OC)

Saturday, February 2 3:20 a.m., call from college kids who were lost, cold, out of gas and stuck in the snow. (CO) 8:35 a.m., sheriff checking in. (CO) 11:41 a.m., caller returning sheriff’s phone call. (CO) 3:43 p.m., alarm going off - false alarm. (MA) 3:59 p.m., report of cows and a mule out. (CO) 6:50 p.m., report of people camping under a bridge. (CO) 9 p.m., request for an ambu-lance. (MA)

Sunday, February 3 10:45 a.m., report that mule was out again. (CO) 11:09 a.m., report of a dog chasing cows and caller wanting to speak to an offi cer. (CO) 12:42 p.m., caller wanting an offi cer to stop by their house. (MA) 1 p.m., caller needing offi cer to return his phone calls. (MA) 2:55 p.m., caller needing to speak to offi cer. (MA) 4:33 p.m., caller reported fi nd-ing a hunting dog. (MA) 10:07 p.m., caller needing to re-turn property. (CO) 10:40 p.m., report of a horse running loose. (CO) 11:14 p.m., 911 call.

Monday, February 4 12:33 a.m., fi re alarm. 7:31 a.m., call for dispatch. (OC) 8:08 a.m., caller setting up in-mate visitation. (OC) 8:18 a.m., individual checking in with sheriff’s offi ce. (CO) 8:33 a.m., individual dropping off items at sheriff’s offi ce. (MA) 8:50 a.m., caller setting up pris-oner visitation. (RE) 9:04 a.m., call for dispatch. (MA) 9:07 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 9:27 a.m., individual needing to register. (MA) 9:43 a.m., call for sheriff. (MA)

9:53 a.m., caller setting up in-mate visitation. (OC) 9:58 a.m., caller needing sher-iff’s offi ce mailing address. (OC) 10:16 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 10:37 a.m., 911 call, false alarm. (MA) 11:04 a.m., individual needing to see clerk. (MA) 11:20 a.m., call for dispatch. (MA) 11:33 a.m., call for jail. (MA) 11:43 a.m., call for offi cer. (MA) 11:55 a.m., sheriff checking in. (OC) 12:02 p.m., call about visita-tion. (OC) 1:04 p.m., dog complaint. (MA) 1:25 p.m., caller needing inmate information. (OC) 1:51 p.m., call for sheriff. (KE) 3:43 p.m., caller returning offi -cer’s call. (MA) 6:14 p.m., caller needing offi -cer. (KE) 6:47 p.m., caller needing to speak to offi cer. (MA)

Tuesday, February 5 8 a.m., call for offi cer. (OC) 8 a.m., caller checking on in-mate. (OC) 8:19 a.m., call for clerk. (OC) 9:54 a.m., call for jail. (MA) 10:46 a.m., report of a con-trolled burn. (CO) 11:01 a.m., call for dispatch about fi re. (OC) 11:08 a.m., attorney calling for inmate. (OC) 11:23 a.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 11:34 a.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 11:39 a.m., call for jailer. (CO) 11:57 a.m., civil issue. (CO) 8:30 p.m., report of a car/deer accident. (MA) 11:23 a.m., 911 call. (KE)

Wednesday, February 6 11:59 a.m., report that con-trolled burn is over. (CO) 12:05 p.m., call for inmate from their attorney. (OC) 12:15 p.m., call for jail. (OC) 12:28 p.m., wrong number. 1:03 p.m., offi cer checking in. (MA) 1:06 p.m., report of a break-in. (MA) 2:02 p.m., 911 call, request for an ambulance. (MA) 2:30 p.m., call for dispatcher. (OC) 2:53 p.m., call for jailer. (OC) 3:16 p.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 3:24 p.m., call for jail. (OC) 3:41 p.m., 911 test. 3:50 p.m., call for jail. (OC) 4 p.m., call for offi cer. (OC) 4:38 p.m., caller requesting welfare check. (OC) 6:03 p.m., caller needing page done. (MA) 6:25 p.m., caller requesting page. (CO) 7:10 p.m., caller requesting of-fi cer call them back. (OC)

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: Teresa Jack-son, 109 W. Madison St., Suite 105, 464-3344. Offi ce hours: Tues-day and Friday, 8 a.m. to noon or by appointment. For emergencies call 641-344-9767. • 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

contract pay. In addition, any em-ployee with 10 continuous years of service and who has accumulated a minimum of 105 sick days by the end of the retirement year will be reimbursed at minimum wage for the balance of the unused sick days. Part-time employees will have their sick day pay prorated to regular working hours. Under the policy eligible employees must submit their requests on or before February 28 of this year.District study committee The board formally approved the list of members comprising this year’s District Study commit-tee. They include Brenda Adams, Stacy Andresen, Joe Drake, Patty Eaton, Chris Elwood, Jess Frost, Jodie Geist, David Greene, Chan-telle Jennett, Marcy Bjustrom, Ra-nae Klinkefus, Jeremy Larsen, Kim Lutrick, Leslie Murphy, Jeremy Newton, Angela Reynolds, Martha Ricker, Skip Rushing, Kristi Sack-ett, Duane Schafer, Brandie Shay, Delwyn Showalter, Valle Smith, Alan Smith, Michelle Sobotka, Carroll Taylor, Lynne Wallace, Allison Wallace, Morgan Weeda, Aaron Riley and Matt Poore.Superintendent’s report Superintendent Drake dis-cussed two fi nancial items as part of his report. First he reviewed the spending reduction plan by which the district’s unspent balance re-mains just over $1 million. He recommended the district keep its unspent balance authority between $1-1.1 million to cover unfore-seen emergencies or appropriate one-time expenditures. Depending upon the percentage the state sets for allowable growth, Drake said he could not accurately predict any budget adjustments for the coming year to maintain the unspent bal-ance. Drake explained the effect the allowable growth fi gure would have on district fi nances. Drake ex-plained the district is already com-mitted for an additional $156,976 in certifi ed staff salary and benefi ts and another $30,000 and classi-fi ed salary staff and benefi ts for the 2013-2014 school year. He said those numbers could fl uctu-ate based upon resignations and the number of employees signing up for district health insurance. If the state would agree to provide a four percent increase in allowable growth, the district would receive $189,208, more than enough to cover the approximate $187,000 in salaries and benefi ts. On the

other hand, if the state would ap-prove only two percent allowable growth, new money coming to the district would total $115,168, nearly $72,000 short of the sal-ary/benefi t amount. Any shortfall in new money, Drake said, would require cuts to the district budget. He recommended not only board members but also all community members contact their legisla-tors to lobby for higher allowable growth. Drake also presented his pre-liminary budget for the coming school year. Again, he cannot fi -nalize the budget fi gures until state money is set, but he said he does not plan to increase the tax levy from its current $16.57 level. Drake also reported district health insurance premiums de-creased two percent for the coming year.Other business The board approved a number of resolutions pertaining to the is-suing of $6,615,000 in general ob-ligation school refunding bonds. The resolutions approved the paying agent, bond registrar and transfer agent; the tax exemption certifi cate; continuing disclosure certifi cate; and authorization of the issuance of bonds. A request from the 2014 junior class parent committee to use the high school gym, auditorium and commons area for prom activi-ties was approved. In addition, the board approved the committee request to use a school vehicle to accompany buses to Omaha for the after-prom celebration. The vehicle would be used in case of the need to return anyone to Mount Ayr because of illness or other emergency. The board approved the posting of no parking signs adjacent to the bus loading lane running the length of the west side of the high school. Drake said patrons have gotten into the habit of parking in the lane during evening events. Vehicles parked in this lane would prevent access for emergency vehicles to that side of the building.

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Afton police chief John Coulter and Jake Hubbard explain their roles as incident managers to members of the volunteers of the Community Emergency Response Team.

Ringgold county’s Commu-nity Emergency Response Team (CERT) consists of 35 volunteers who are trained to assist local re-sponders in emergency situations and to inform the public about emergency preparedness. At a recent training session, county emergency manager Teresa Jackson spoke to the group about

Volunteers receive CERT trainingupcoming CPR/fi rst aid training, water rescue shoreline training and pets in disaster training. Afton police chief John Coulter explained his role as incident manager at the search for a miss-ing Ringgold county woman last fall. He discussed things that went wrong as well as the things that went right, especially the success-

ful location of the woman. Assitant incident manager Jake Hubbard added his perspective to the inci-dent. Ringgold County Extension di-rector Judy Hensley demonstrated the importance of teamwork with the presentation using buttermilk, food coloring and dish soap.

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. 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 January birth dates are reminded to register their mo-tor vehicles by February 28, 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, 464-2397. Mondays and Thurs-days, 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.

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Thursday, February 14 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.

Saturday, February 16 Card shower for Lucy Ricker’s 80th birthday. Cards and cor-respondence may be sent to her at 304 E. Jefferson Street, Mount Ayr, IA 50854. Southern Iowa Parks & Recre-ation’s breakfast for supper at the Kellerton community center from 5 to 7 p.m.

Monday, February 18 Antiques Club will meet at the Senior Citizens Center at 9:30 a.m. Hostess will be Sandy Mekus. Bring a favorite antique or col-lectible. Iowa College Access Network®

(ICAN) free FAFSA assistance by 30-minute appointments at the Mount Ayr Community high school from noon to 6 p.m. 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. Chapter CK, P.E.O. will meet at 1 p.m. at Heritage park (Home of Kathryn Chartrand). Hostesses will be Camille Jackson, JoAnn Buckner and Sue Buck. Program is “A Reason for Hearts and Flowers.” Guest speaker is Angie Glendenning. Sowing in Tears Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. at the Light-house Church, two miles west of Mount Ayr.

Tuesday, February 19 Calico Quilters will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon at the Senior Citizens Activity Center, Mount Ayr.

Wednesday, February 20 $1 sack day every day at the Ringgold County Neighborhood Center. Baked potato bar at the Tingley community building at 5 p.m. 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, February 21 Mount Ayr Model Railroad Club at 1210 E. Monroe Street at 6 p.m. Contact O. Martsching at 641-464-9294. Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr.

Friday, February 22 Card shower for Marlene Zarr’s 80th birthday. Cards and correspondence may be sent to her at 1206 E. Monroe Street, Mount Ayr, IA 50854.

Hang gliding class at the La-moni Community Center at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 23 Reception for Roger and Beth Elliott’s 25th anniversary at the Decatur county fairgrounds in Leon. Food will be served from 6 to 8 p.m. with a DJ from 8 to 12 p.m. If unable to attend, cards and correspondence may be sent to them at 10976 280th Street, Lamoni, IA 50140-9530.

Monday, February 25 $1 sack day every day at the Ringgold County Neighborhood Center. The Second Childhood Doll Club will meet at 12:30 p.m. at Rumors for lunch. Meeting will be at the Ringgold County Extension offi ce at 1:30 p.m. Program will be by Darlene Bear. Thin Within support group will meet at 5 p.m. at the Lighthouse. Ringgold County Tourism meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Cham-ber of Commerce building. Sowing in Tears Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. at the Light-house Church, two miles west of Mount Ayr. Jam session at the Mount Ayr American Legion building from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 26Bag Day at the Ringgold

County Neighborhood Center.Wednesday, February 27

Blockton community potluck at 12 noon to celebrate Edith Camp-bell’s 90th birthday. If unable to attend, cards and correspondence may be sent to her at P.O. Box 248, Blockton, IA 50836. Bag Day at the Ringgold County Neighborhood Center. Sushi class at the Lamoni Com-munity Center at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 28 Deadline for Judge Lewis scholarship applications for 2013 graduates. Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr.

Mary Kathryn Gepner

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Birthdays

Marlene Zarr

Zarr to celebrate 80th birthday Marlene Zarr will be celebrat-ing her 80th birthday anniversary February 22. Her children, Mi-chael Zarr, Mindy Lesan and Max Zarr, are holding a card shower for this great event. Cards and correspondence may be sent to Marlene Zarr, 1206 E. Monroe Street, Mount Ayr, IA 50854.

Beth and Roger Elliott

Elliotts to celebrate 25th anniversary Randi and Jessica Elliott would like to request your presence to help their parents, Roger and Beth Elliott, celebrate their 25th anni-versary which is February 13. There will be a reception held Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at the De-catur county fairgrounds in Leon.

Food will be served from 6 to 8 p.m. with a DJ from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight. If you are unable to attend, cards and correspondence may be sent to Roger and Beth at 10976 280th Street, Lamoni, IA 50140-9530.

A reminder that the resources provided to patrons of the library include free e-book and audio book checkout through the library’s par-ticipation in the Wilbor Consor-tium. If you have an e-reader, come in and let them show you how easy it is. This week the nation will be fo-cused on President Obama’s fourth State of the Union address. This is the annual address presented by the President of the United States to Congress that not only reports on the condition of the nation but allows presidents to outline their legislative agenda, requiring con-gressional cooperation and their na-tional priorities. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States states, “He shall from time to time give to Congress informa-tion of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” The Constitution does not spec-ify the date; by tradition, the Presi-dent makes this annual report in late January or early February. Nor does the Constitution require that Presidents deliver a speech in per-son to a joint session of Congress. President George Washington de-livered the fi rst annual message before a joint session of Congress in New York City, the provisional capital, January 8, 1790. The third President, Thomas Jefferson, did not like to make speeches. He considered it as too monarchial, similar to the Speech from the Throne. He began the practice of writing the address and sending it to Congress to be ready by a clerk. This continued until President Woodrow Wilson re-es-tablished the practice of appearing before Congress. Wilson, a former college professor, believed that he could be more persuasive in per-son. The term “State of the Union” was fi rst used by President Frank-lin Roosevelt in 1934, before that it was simply referred to as the “President’s Annual Message to Congress.” Some of the more memorable addresses include a message from President James Monroe in 1823 warning Euro-pean powers against meddling in the Western Hemisphere. This was the basis for the famous Monroe Doctrine. In 1941 president Frank-lin Roosevelt outlines his hope for the post-war world in his famous “Four Freedoms” statement in his “State of the Union” address, Pres-ident Lyndon Johnson declared un-conditional “war on poverty.”

In 1974 President Nixon, hop-ing to bring an end to the Water-gate investigation, declared that “One year of Watergate is enough.” In 1975, President Gerald Ford said, “The State of the Union,” is not good. And in 2002 President George W. Bush linked Iraq, Iran an North Korea into an “axis of evil.” New books in the library: In large print Christian Fiction: “Dark Crossings” by Karen Harper, “Han-nah’s Joy” by Marta Perry, Book Six in her Pleasant Valley series and “Home By Dark, A Danger-ous Homecoming” by Marta Perry. These books were donated by Judy Linn.

Club Notes

Daffodil Days, a spring project of the American Cancer Society, will be March 11-15. Orders can now be given to most of the people who helped last year. The prices have remained the same as the last few years. They are $10 for 10 fl owers, $25 for the annual collectible bear and bunch and also $15 for Dainty Daffo-dils which bloom and then can be planted in the ground. Places or persons to contact to order the daffodils include Cindy Snethen of Redding, Martha Ham-

mond or Dixie Taylor of Diagonal, Nancy Jarred of Tingley, Linda Swanson of Kellerton, Wanda McGahuey, Pat Weddle, Cleone Hosfi eld, Dorothy Hughes and Deanna Adams of Mount Ayr, Sta-cy Andreason at the school, Public Health offi ce, Ringgold County Hospital, Mount Ayr Medical Clin-ic, Patty Dolecheck at Dr. Crain’s offi ce, U.S. Bank and Great West-ern Bank. If there are any questions, please contact Phyllis Riggs, 44-2655, or Helen Terry, 464-2355. Word has been received from the American Cancer Society that this spring will be the last Daffodil Days project. Wouldn’t it be spe-cial for Ringgold County to do bet-ter than ever!

Maloy Shamrocks The regular meeting of the Maloy Shamrocks took place Jan-uary 20, 2013 at the Waubonsie Center in Benton. President Han-nah Glendenning called the meet-ing to order. Payton Weehler led the Pledge of Allegiance. Secretary Laura Davison took roll call to the question, “What is your favorite ice cream fl avor?” Present were Abbey Schafer, Alys-sa Johnson, Amber Davison, Blair Glendenning, Bradley Wurster, Brayden Swank, Caylie Hickman, Elsie Schafer, Hannah Glenden-ning, Hannah Jackson, Jamie Stackhouse, John Shields, Kirsten Dolecheck, Kyle Dolecheck, Lau-ra Davison, Lucas Wurster, Nick Wurster, Paige Lynch, Rhett Mur-phy, Ryker Hickman, Samantha Schaefer, Tanner Parman, Tessa Shields, Trent Stewart, Wyatt Jackson, Zach Murphy, Payton Weehler, Dawson Swank, Hallee Stewart and Loryn Schaefer. Davison then read the minutes from the last meeting. Samantha Schaefer voted to approve the min-utes with Zach Murphy seconding the motion. The treasurer’s report was given by Wyatt Jackson. Han-nah Jackson approved the report and Amber Davison seconded the motion. Old Business was discussed. A committee of Samantha Schaefer, Hannah Jackson and Amber Davi-son presented ideas of fair cutouts to make for the Ringgold County Fair. Kirsten Dolecheck motioned to approve the design and get ma-terials with Lucas Wurster second-ing. During new business the club decided to donate money to the Waubonsie Center for allowing the club use of their building for meet-ings. Amber Davison motioned to donate $200. Samantha Schaefer seconded the motion.

Kyle Dolecheck motioned to adjourn the meeting. Zach Murphy seconded. Kyle led the 4-H Pledge. Presentations were done by Zach Murphy, Brayden Swank, Nick, Lucas and Brad Wurster on basket-ball plays and by John Shields on making fruit dip. Respectfully submitted, Laura Davison, Secretary

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• Janet and Jim Knedler of To-peka, KS, Phil Stamper of Colora-do Springs, CO and Guelda Barker attended the musical, “Grease,” at the Dodge City, KS high school, of which the Knedler’s son, Kelly Knedler, is the vocal music direc-tor. Kelly and Tami Knedler’s son and daughter, Alden and Aria, were part of the production. They also attended the grade school basketball game Satur-day morning. Alden played in the game. • Janet and Jim Knedler and Guelda Barker visited Sunday af-ternoon in the Rodney and Sonjia Clay home in Horton, KS.

February 11 - Gerald and Nor-ma Green celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary with family over the weekend. Congrats. Richard and Joyce Brown met Jason Brown in Des Moines Satur-day and had a good family day. The fi remen’s breakfast will be February 23 from 7 to 9 a.m. New on the menu this year are home-made doughnuts. Come and sup-port these men with a freewill of-fering. You never know when you might need them. Joyce Brown spent a few days in Grant City, MO with her mom, Freda Baker, as Freda has the shin-gles. Delbert and Shirley Molt were in Des Moines Saturday. Peggy and Ben Roed were Saturday noon guests and Sunday evening supper guests of David and Mary Kay Loutzenhiser and Bazel was an overnight guest. Congratulations to the speech students, basketball students and wrestlers. Blockton is being well represented by Hannah Marcum, Callyn Bond and Cole Bond. Remember: “We don’t laugh because we’re happy; we’re happy because we laugh.”

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February 11 - Madelyn and Carl Meek of Grant City, MO vis-ited with Dorothy Barber Tuesday. The Barber family got together for supper Saturday evening at the OldTowne cafe in Allendale, MO. Attending were Dorothy Barber, Carl and Madelyn Meek, John and Linda Barber of Benton and Keleta and Bill Dunkeson of Mount Ayr. Oney Brumfi eld’s supper guests Sunday were Rick and De-loris Brumfi eld of Gravity, Paul and Dalton Brumfi eld and Kenny Brand of Sharpsburg. Helen Combs called on Kim Scharfenkamp and Dale Olney Wednesday afternoon. Sherry Da-vidson visited with Helen Friday afternoon. Rebecca and Cliff Smith and sons were overnight visitors Sat-

urday at Bill and Ginny Quick’s. They all went to the dinner theater murder mystery at the Mount Ayr Country Club Saturday evening. Louden and Calvin Main were also Saturday overnight guests of Quicks. Allison and Berkley Davidson were Sunday lunch guests at Ken-ny and Berta Quick’s. Mary Jane Jones of Clever, MO is visiting Betty and J.W. Robert-son. Mary and Cindy Daniels vis-ited the Robertsons Saturday. Gary Lambert was also a Saturday visi-tor. Annabel and John David Walkup visited Mike and Mary Walkup in Winterset Wednesday. Annabel called on Jean Haidsiak at Clearview Home in Clearfi eld Saturday. She also attended funer-al services for Arloa Wackernagle Saturday. The Sunshine Workers 4-H club met Wednesday afternoon at the Frontier Hall with Aaron, Tucker, BayLee and Alexis Darrah as hosts. Aaron, Tucker and BayLee gave presentations and the club mem-bers decided to continue with the Adopt-a-Highway program. They will also host an Easter party for neighborhood kids on the Saturday before Easter next month. Bernie Rothman was a lunch guest at Bobbi and Michael Bai-num’s Wednesday.

February 11 - Mary Swank ac-companied Susan Ferber to Des Moines Wednesday for doctor appointments. They also ate at Cracker Barrel and shopped. Those attending the district wrestling in Corning Saturday were Mike, Malinda and Mitchel Swank, Jamie Stringham, Joan and Don Stringham and Mary Swank. They watched Mount Ayr wrestlers Dawson Knapp, Grant Statts, Erik Freed and Shane Swank. Con-gratulations to Erik who made it to state. Matt Swank and Katie also at-tended the district wrestling meet held in Corning Saturday. Jamie Stringham was a guest of Joan and Don Stringham from Fri-day night to Sunday. Wallace and Patty Sobotka were Sunday dinner guests of Steve and Cyndi Sobotka. Visitors in the home of Mary Kathryn Gepner from Thursday, Feb. 1, through Sunday, Feb. 4, were her nephew, Master Ser-geant Gail Matthews, wife Kellie and son Tim. Sergeant Matthews is transferring from Aurora, CO to Quantico, VA. They left Monday, Feb. 4, to go to Virginia. Super guests Friday of Mary Kathryn Gepner were her house-guests, Gail, Kellie and Tim Mat-thews, and Mike and Nancy Gep-ner. Mary Gepner and her houseg-uests, Gail, Kellie and Tim Mat-

thews, were Saturday supper guests of Mike and Nancy Gepner. Also visiting Mike and Nancy Gepner was their granddaughter, Sophia Nicole Camacho. Super Bowl Sunday guests of Mike and Nancy Gepner were Mi-chael, Hannah and Sophia Cama-cho, Mary Gepner, Gail, Kellie and Tim Matthews, Andy Freihage and a friend, Brittainy. Sunday evening Malinda Swank stopped at the home of Mary Kathryn Gepner to visit with her houseguests, Gail, Kellie and Tim Matthews.

February 11 - A baked potato bar supper will be held Wednesday evening, Feb. 20, at the Tingley community building. Meal will consist of a baked potato, a choice of toppings, dessert and bever-age. Serving begins at 5 p.m. It’s freewill offering with proceeds go-ing toward upkeep of the Tingley community building. Everyone welcome. Valentine’s Day will be ob-served at the meal site Friday, Feb. 15. A valentine king and queen will be revealed and crowned at this time. Voting for this couple will be ongoing all week at the site until 11 a.m. Friday. There’ll be special music, plus treats for everyone. The Community Singers from the Clearfi eld, Lenox and surround-ing areas will be entertaining at the site President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 18. Pie a la mode will be a special treat to be enjoyed that day. It is such a busy time. There is not a chance for anyone to get the winter blahs. This writer sure is glad to live in Iowa instead of out east where they’re getting all that snow and wind. Last week was pretty normal at the meal site. The musical duo, Peggy Skarda and Virginia Walden, were present Monday with more of their special music. Ethel Camp-bell shared a joke to add a bit of humor to the day. Karon Naomi showed some beautiful pictures she just fi nished painting. The band was present to enter-tain Tuesday. Members included accompanist Carmene James, plus Junior Brown, Doris Overholser, Mary Jane Narigon, Iona Triggs, Evelyn Sickels, Marge Werner, Bill and Norma Webb, Dick and Vir-ginia Walden and Dave and Wilm-ina Jennings. Virginia Walden and Pinkie Collins both shared jokes to provide bits of humor to the day. Dave Patch provided the blessing by singing “The Lord’s Prayer.” It was good to have Don and Mary Jane Narigon back again. Friday found the singers on hand to entertain. They included accompanist Darlene Morgan, di-rector Bonnie Manders, plus Doro-thy Clough, Marge Werner, Mary Jane Narigon, Dave Patch, Bill and Norma Webb and Dick and Vir-

ginia Walden. It was good to have Darlene Morgan back again. All wish it could have been for a hap-pier reason. Happy birthday wishes were extended to Carmene James, who observed a birthday Thursday, Feb. 7, and also to Charlene Ford, who observed a birthday the same day, Feb. 7. Janice Lindeman was wel-comed back to the site Friday. All hope to see her back really soon. Mount Ayr meal site was closed Friday because of a funeral dinner at their site. Tingley felt it a privi-lege to deliver meals to folks in Mount Ayr and Kellerton to help out.

February 11 - Brad and Daryl Holden accompanied Gene Motsinger to Benton for the monthly breakfast for supper at the Waubonsie Center Saturday eve-ning. Sunday Allen Jarred called on Gene and later in the day Billie Adli and Mollie brought treats and conversation. Rod Shields fi xed barbecued ribs for Aleha, Hayley, Hope and Harper Whittington Sunday. Sta-cey Shields is in Arizona visiting with her parents and sister. Charlie and Vickie Jeanes were in Des Moines Friday to see his eye doctor. He got a good report. Kayla and Tyler Hanawalt were Saturday afternoon and evening visitors with their grandparents, Charlie and Vickie Jeanes. Their parents, Josh and Lizzie, were in Des Moines to help Liz Stewart celebrate her 30th birthday. Lil Rinehart, Bev McGinnis and Vickie Jeanes worked at the Redding Methodist Church spa-ghetti supper Sunday night. Walt McGinnis and Charlie Jeanes were there to eat and visit. It was also good to see the Bishops, Murphys and Sudduths from this neighbor-hood among the diners.

February 11 - It has been a little warmer in recent days and all at the Center are happy about that. Al-most all the snow has disappeared with the warmer temperatures and that is wonderful news. Without the snow cover, it is bound to be a little warmer. Yesterday and last night, however, the wind was very strong and the picture in mind was that of the old man winter cloud

blowing out through his mouth for all he was worth. It is still windy at this writing, but not nearly as bad. There were fewer people in for bingo Tuesday but a nice big, cheerful crowd was there to play pitch Wednesday. There was a lot of laughing, talking and bidding going on. Ruth, the hostess for that day, was unable to be there so Myron and Shirley Ingram were the host and hostess and closed the Center. The birthday club men Thurs-day, Feb. 7, with nine in attendance celebrating the birthdays falling in February. Those at the Center had not known until the printing of last week’s paper that Lavena Wimer had been ill and hospitalized but she was there bright and cheery Thursday with her granddaughter as a special guest for the club. All of them at the Center are wishing her well. It was mistakenly put in the pa-per last week that snack and game night will be starting at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24. It will start at 5 p.m. Sorry about the mistake. The chair exercises went well this morning. Counting Sharon and the hostess, Dorothy Saville, they had four people doing the pro-gram. It lasts about 45 minutes and it is a lot of fun. Every time you do the exercise it seems to be a little easier. After exercise, coffee and a fellowship time are enjoyed in the kitchen. Please come and join them. It really is a fun time. It has been somewhat quiet this past week so not a lot to write about. See you next week.

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February 11 - This week seemed to fl y by. A person needs to slow down and smell the roses once in awhile, but who has time for that? Valentine’s Day is upon us and this writer is still recouping from Christmas. A note to all the guys out there, if you don’t want to be in the doghouse, remember February 14. Get your gal something special she’ll never forget! Monday residents started the morning with exercise and then they read from a new book called “Curiosities of Iowa.” It’s remark-able how much they did not know about their own state. There was Bible study with Scott Marcum in the afternoon and the kitchen made snickerdoodles for afterward. Tuesday residents made a val-entine pocket for their doors. They have a bunch of talented artists among them. Bingo was played in the afternoon. Winners were Dar-lene Gilbert, Lila Barker, Lorane Leonard, Gladys Gose and Nioma Gaule. Wednesday residents exer-cised and they also exercised their brains with some trivia. Sharmane McAlpine conducted church ser-

vice in the afternoon. Thursday was the birthday of James Dean so everyone had a little fun with trivia about his mov-ies and his short life. It was amaz-ing how much they knew and the things they didn’t. A movie and popcorn were enjoyed in the after-noon. It was a perfect dreary day for a movie. Friday residents exercised and read some more from the “Curiosi-ties of Iowa” book. They all want to go to Adair and see the big spi-der made from a Volkswagen bug. The school kids came to read in the afternoon. Residents fi xed them a goody bag to take with them. Glad-ys Gose put some ribbon and heart stickers on a bag of candy. The kids left valentines for the residents. Visitors this week were Normie Beggs with several; Kerry Saville, Dorothy Baker, Gordon Kilgore and Kathy Valenzuela with Clara Kilgore; Jacque Simmons, Fran Losec and Kelly Allee with Helen Lyddon; Marcia Nickell with Dorothy Wetzel; Kelsey and Keagan Bailey and Bernita Stansberry with Colet-ta Bradley; Jack and Dixie Taylor and Darla Sobotka with Lorabel Taylor; Sundae, Meghan and Eric Nor-dstrom with Ona Knott, and Gary and Carolyn Williams with Jean Haidsiak. Everyone would like to welcome Kenneth Bolinger to Clearview. This writer had a chance to visit with him and he is a delight to talk to. All look forward to getting to know him better. Food for thought: “Try to be like a turtle -- at ease in your own shell.”

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February 11 - Sunday - It’s the last week of January. It seems like it went by fast. Only one more month of real winter. February looks like a busy month so it will go fast too. Monday - Darla Sobotka and Linda Bell planned to go up to Linda’s mom’s for a couple of days -- leave Monday and come back Wednesday. Instead of driving up this time, they fl ew. Darla and her husband, Doug, are taking fl ying lessons. They started in Decem-ber and Darla wondered if Linda

would want to do that. Linda asked if the instructor would be with them. Darla said, “Yes, of course.” They just thought that would be a good chance for them to get in some cross-country fl ying instruc-tion. It was fun. Linda’s mom hadn’t been out all winter. She needed her hair cut and permed. They got that done on Tuesday and went out for lunch. Wednesday they got her in to see her doctor. She hadn’t been in for a physical for over two yeas. She said she felt fi ne; why does she need to see the doctor? She is in pretty good shape for 92 years of age or so the doctor says. Then they went out for lunch again and met Linda’s brother and wife and her sister-in-law. Her mom sure enjoyed getting out. They got home around 5:30 p.m. and fl ew into the Creston airport. When they went over Af-ton, Linda called her sister-in-law, Sherry, and told her she was fl ying right over her house, go out and wave to her. It takes an hour and 15 minutes to fl y and four and one-half hours to drive by car. Pretty nice. Friday - They celebrated Tom and Joyce Esser’s 50th wedding anniversary at the “Store.” Tom bought coffee for all who were there. They always enjoy Jeannie Larson too. She joins them for her break when she’s working at the store. They all wish Tom and Joyce many more years. This coming Saturday, Feb. 16, is the day a photographer is com-ing to Clearfi eld to take pictures and do a story on the Lions shuttle service. It will be in the magazine that goes all over the world. They are inviting anyone who wants to be in the picture with them. They want to have at least 100 people. The time is 11 a.m. for the picture and then at 12 noon you can join them for a bowl of soup. Then after dinner the Lions will have a short meeting. Linda hopes the weather is good. See ya then. Closing with “There’s no time like the present to procrastinate.” From the coffee table, Linda B.

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The deadline is Thursday, February 28, 2013.

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Several members of the Mount Ayr FFA chapter received recognition at the FFA advisor review night held re-cently in Chariton. Pictured (L-R) are Jena James, Iowa Degree; Erin Dolecheck, Iowa Degree; Leigh James, Offi cer Book; Logan Wimer, Iowa Degree, Offi cer Book; Hagan Willis, Offi cer Book; Johnathan Triggs, Iowa Degree; and Austin Quick, Iowa Degree. Not pictured is Morgan Quick, qualifi ed for the Iowa Degree and Equine Science Profi ciency Degree.

The Ringgold county H.E.L.P. Youth Pod is opening their second annual granting cycle, and they in-vite county residents and groups to apply. H.E.L.P. stands for Helping Enrich the Lives of People. It is a youth pod that serves the people of Ringgold county by providing rec-reational activities and educational opportunities in a safe environ-ment. The group grants money to people or organizations they feel will help the community. Applications will be accepted until Friday, March 1. Grant appli-cations are available in the Mount Ayr high school office and the Di-agonal school office. Questions should be directed to Dawson Knapp at 641-234-0217. The group requests grant recipi-ents’ presence at the annual ban-quet in May.

Results are back for the Mount Ayr FFA chapter’s entries in the FFA advisor review night held at the Chariton high school Monday, February 4. Four students were awarded the prestigious Iowa Farmers Degree. Jena James, Morgan Quick, Logan Wimer and Johnathan Triggs each submitted a lengthy application and several years of records for their SAE project. Two students, Austin Quick and Erin Dolecheck, will need to make corrections and

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resubmit for another review at dis-trict competition March 9 at Earl-ham. Students who obtain their Iowa Degree are eligible to make appli-cation for their American Degree within two years of graduating from high school. Morgan Quick earned a profi -cience award in equine science. She received a one rating and will continue to advance. The chapter earned three bronze degrees for the treasurer, secretary

and record book/scrapbook. The chapter will travel to the subdistrict contest February 21 atIndianola. There, FFA students will compete against other stu-dents in the south central region in POA slideshow, conduct of meet-ings, parliamentary procedure, greenhand quiz, chapter quiz, job interview, ag broadcasting, pub-lic speaking, ag sales, and creed speaking events. FFA state convention will be in Ames on April 21 – 23.

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A number of students from Clearfi eld and Diagonal elemen-tary schools were honored for their submissions to the Corning Center for Fine Arts (CCFA) art show. Clearfi eld’s Emily Fletcher earned a fi rst-place ribbon. Ry-lan Larsen and Alex Baker were awarded second-place ribbons, and Cody Maynard earned third place. Honorable mentions went to Shayla Berger, Aiden Eggert and

Enjoying the rewardSixth graders enjoy an afternoon of bowling as a reward for a job well done at school. According to Mount Ayr elementary principal Chris Elwood, fi fth and sixth grade students can qualify for a quarterly Reward Day by meeting criteria based on academics, behavior, and attendance. Students who met the criteria for the second quarter were able to spend an afternoon bowling at Lucky Lanes. The fi rst quarter reward was a movie at Princess Theater. Elwood also thanked the S.O.S. group their help in funding these two days.

FAFSA workshop to be held at MACHSbirth • Most recent federal and state tax returns • W-2 forms or other records of income earned last year • Current bank statements and investment records • Records of untaxed income received last year • 2012 business and farm re-cords

• Alien registration numbers if not a U.S. citizen Sponsored by the Iowa Col-lege Access Network, the personal 30-minute sessions will be held 12-6 p.m. Monday, February 18 at Mount Ayr Community high school. To schedule an appointment, please call 464-0532.

Clearfi eld, Diagonal art students earn recognition at Corning art fair

Macy Harban. CCFA particpation recognition awards went to Brayden Berger, Keegan Smith, Max Harban, Wil-liam O’Connor, Emily Parmenter and Macy Harban. Diagonal students recognized included Bradyn Cool (fi rst place), Briar Knapp (second place) and Garrett Stephens (third place). Honorable mentions went to Carter Lumbard and Skyler

Stamps. Earning CCFA awards were Jasmine Hansen, Clarie Oshel, Lauren Burton, Caleb Hubbard, Taylor Hubbard, Toby Ruby, Hail-ley Gregg, Will Strange, Calli Herr, Rhett Larson, Kayla Bentley, Kade Klommhaus and Erin Sobotka. Other schools participating in the show included Bedford, Corn-ing, Glenwood, Mount Ayr and Nodaway Valley.

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Future Raiders support current RaidersArea peewee wrestlers attended the last home dual to support the Raiders. Pictured are (front row, L-R) Drew Ehlen, Brayden Cook, Brock Shaha, Nathan Nvotney, Preston Fleharty and Tucker Knox; (secord row) Trae Fooken, Jacob Novak, Trae Ehlen, Kolbin Klommhaus, Bryce Shaha, Xander Harmening and Cain Harmen-ing; (back row) Corey Fleharty, Payton Fleharty, Chris Kemery, Adler Shay, Reas Knapp, Briar Knapp, Dawson Swank, Clayton VanBuskirk and John Ford.

Caylie Hickman took fi rst place in the 12-year-old girls division of the Knights of Columbus district free throw contest in Osceola Feb-ruary 3. She will now advance to the regional contest February 24 in Albia. Caylie is the daughter of Doug and Susan Hickman of Mount Ayr.

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“Fox” Clinton to SWCC hall of fame Ron “Fox” Clinton, retired Southwestern Community College athletic director, coach, and in-structor, will be inducted into the Southwestern Community College Athletic Hall of Fame during a cer-emony to be held on Sat., March 2, 2013, at approximately 2:30 p.m., prior to the men’s basketball game, which is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., in the Student Center. The women’s team plays at 1 p.m. that day. The SWCC teams face Iowa Central Community College from Fort Dodge. A re-ception will be held in the upstairs of the Student Center following the men’s game. Clinton worked at the college from 1964-2009.

Useless FactsBY ZACH LEMON • J.P. Morgan bailed out the U.S. in 1895. • Giraffes clean their ears with their 18-plus-inch tongues. • Pigs can’t look up at the sky. • Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fi ght be-cause he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fi ght, Rob-inson went into the ring and killedhis opponent, Jimmy Doyle. • Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world there is a duck watching you. • It’s impossible to hum while plugging your nose. • You’re more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket then you are to actually win the lottery. • It cost $7 million to make the Titanic, and $200 million to make a fi lm about it. • A seashell next to your ear is the sound of your blood surging, not the ocean.

Wallace Center to offer apprenticeships in sustainable farming practices The Wallace Centers of Iowa (WCI) will offer up to four appren-ticeships in 2013 at the Henry A. Wallace Country Life Center near Orient. The apprenticeship program is designed to provide practical experience to individuals who are committed to sustainable farming practices and want to work within the process of food production. Sessions will be at least a minimum of eight weeks with a maxi-mum of 12 to 15 weeks. Each session will provide comprehensive, practical experience operating a medium-sized organic vegetable and fruit production garden including direct seeding, planning weekly CSA produce boxes, produce harvesting and cleaning, orchard care, and high tunnel production. Apprentices will also assist with public programs and events such as fi eld days, youth programming, farmers markets, and restaurant supply. In addition, the apprentices will be expected to create a pay-

it-forward project following the apprenticeship that helps others better understand the importance of sustainable farming practices. WCI will provide a stipend of $1,000 to $1,500, depending upon the length of the apprenticeship, housing, and assistance after the appren-ticeship in developing a business plan and work portfolio. For a com-plete list of program opportunities and expectations, visit www.wal-lace.org or contact Diane Weiland at 641-337-5019 or dianeweiland@wallace.org. Prospective apprentices must complete a brief question-naire before March 15, 2013. The Wallace Centers of Iowa’s two locations include the Henry A. Wallace Country Life Center in rural Orient and the Wallace House in Des Moines. Together, the two historic sites provide educational pro-grams and community services, produce organic fruits and vegetables, and offer locally-sourced meals. More information about the non-profi t can be found at www.wallace.org.

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$2,024,000 of the $2.956 million county’s road budget. Secondary Road Fund money is distributed to all 99 counties, but Ringgold county receives less than 1/99 of the total funds due to defi ciencies in funding factors such as popula-tion and traffi c compared to larger counties. • Farm-to-Market Fund (Eight percent of RUTF) Ringgold county receives about the same amount of money each year in the Farm-to-Market Fund.for fi scal year 2013 It is estimated the county will receive $641,000. The Farm-to-Market Fund is set aside specifi cally for construc-tion, repair and maintenance of the state’s farm-to-market road system. In Ringgold county, road-ways designated with a “P” or “J” prefi x are farm-to-market roads, regardless of surface type. When established by the Iowa legislature, these roadways were intended not only for agriculture but also for the movement of people and the effi -cient access to goods and services in rural areas. Unlike money in the Second-ary Road Fund, money set aside in the Farm-to-Market Fund is con-trolled by the state department of transportation. Counties must send plans and specifi cations for proj-ects to the state for their approval before funds are released. Another difference between the Secondary Road Fund and the Farm-to-Market Fund is the fact that counties are required by law to expend their funds within three years or the funds are redistrib-uted to other counties. In addition, counties may borrow ahead up to fi ve years worth of funding.

TIME-21 Fund For fi scal year 2013 Ringgold county received $221,000 from the TIME-21 fund. This fund was created by the Iowa legislature in response to the DOT’s 2006 report revealing the impending “perfect storm” in highway maintenance needs versus available revenue. Its goal was to generate additional revenue through a series of proposed “alter-native funding mechanisms,” such as increased gas tax, increased li-cense and registration fees, the im-plementation of certain toll roads and user fees, to name a few. Unlike the RUTF, proceeds from this fund are split among the state, counties and cities at a 60-20-20 ratio. Under the legislation, most county funds coming from TIME-21 would be targeted toward repair or replacement of defi cient bridges and, to a lesser extent, to maintenance of the farm-to-market road system. Since its inception, the TIME-21 has generated some additional funding, primarily because of in-creased registration fees for cer-tain vehicles. Unfortunately, in large part due to a worsening of the “perfect storm” and because most of the proposed “alternative funding mechanisms” were never fully implemented, the TIME-21 fund has fallen far short of its original predicted revenues. The fund fell $151.7 million short in Fiscal Year 2012, and by 2018, the year TIME-21 had originally been predicted to become fully funded, the shortfall estimate had grown to over $1.5 billion. Despite receiving $221,000 for this fi scal year, Gunsolley es-timates the county would likely have received more had the ad-ditional revenues been divided by the existing RUTF formula instead TIME-21 because of the difference in the funding formula ratios.Transfer of Jurisdiction Fund Over the past 10 years, Ring-gold county has averaged approxi-mately $64,000 per year from the

Transfer of Jurisdiction Fund. In 2003 the state transferred jurisdic-tion of a number of roadways to the counties. To help counties assume the added responsibility for repair and maintenance, the legislature set aside funds to ease the transi-tion. That funding mechanism, however, expires at the end of June, and the money will then be divided among all 99 counties by the Secondary Road Fund formu-la. Again, because of the funding ratio, Ringgold county will likely receive less than $64,000 in years to come.Farm-to-Market Extension Fund The county received $26,400 in the Farm-to-Market Exten-sion Fund this year. This fund is separate from the Farm-to-Market Fund. Extension funds are earmarked for costs associated with mainte-nance and repair of farm-to-market roads that run through towns with populations of less than 500 peo-ple. In Ringgold county, all towns, with the exception of Mount Ayr, fall into that category, and each town, with the exception of Ben-ton, has a farm-to-market road run-ning through it. Ringgold county gave towns the choice of allowing the county to maintain their farm-to-market roads or to receive the state fund-ing via the county to maintain them through their own city ser-vices. Delphos, Diagonal, Kel-lerton and Maloy have chosen to maintain their own stretch of farm-to-market roadway and therefore receive a portion of the extension funds from the county.County property tax In fi scal year 2013, $619,100 in rural property taxes was budgeted for county roads. This amount fi g-ures to approximately 75 percent of the rural basic line item on the tax bill and generates approximately one dollar per acre for an average county parcel with average pro-duction capacity. Only taxes on rural property are provided to the Secondary Roads Department - no properties within city limits cur-rently pay county taxes that go to county roads.

Federal funds In fi scal year 2013, Ringgold county also received $208,000 from the Surface Transportation Program fund and $241,000 from the Highway Bridge Program fund from the federal government. Much like the state’s Farm-to-Market Fund requirements, any projects using federal funds must meet strict federal guidelines and can be used only for paving and bridgework respectively. Accord-ing to Gunsolley, the average-sized bridge in Ringgold county current-ly costs about $500,000 to replace. With the current level of funding for bridges, he remarked, it would take over 400 years to replace all of the county’s bridges.Need vs. Revenue

As stated last week, the Iowa County Engineers Association has estimated a cost of $4.8 million per year simply to maintain the cur-rent status of roads and bridges in Ringgold county. If all the above funding sources were combined in fi scal year 2013, the total money available to Ringgold county is an estimated $4,000,000 in round fi gures, about $800,000 short of the Association’s estimate. More-over, as has been shown, infl ation of construction costs continues to skyrocket, so this defi ciency is likely to rise year after year. As a result of this yearly shortfall that has occurred over the past several decades, the state and counties face two diffi cult choices: raise revenue or reduce services.

The fi nal installment of the se-ries in next week’s Record-News will examine various proposals to increase state road revenues as well as what Ringgold county resi-dents may expect if more revenue doesn’t become available.

More on county road funds___________________________Continued from front page

Legislative Coffee to be held Saturday A Legislative Coffee will be held at the Ringgold County Ex-tension offi ce, 101 N. Polk Street, Saturday, Feb. 16. State senator Joni Ernst and state epresentative Cecil Dolech-eck will be meet and greet citizens from 1:00 to 2:00 pm with light re-freshments provided. Anyone is welcome, including youth. The elected offi cials will give comments of what is happen-ing in the Legislature as well as take comments or questions from the audience. It is interesting so come, listen, and learn. The Legislative Coffee is spon-sored by the Mount Ayr Chamber.

A Ringgold county farmer has been elected as an offi cer of the Iowa Cattlemen’s Foundation for 2013. Lee Faris will serve a one-year term as vice president of the orga-nization. Other offi cers named to one-year terms were Glenn Rowe, Lo-rimor, president; Joanne Tupper, Ionia, secretary; and Kent Pruis-mann, Rock Valley, treasurer. The Iowa Cattlemen’s Foun-dation is a 501(c)3 non-profi t or-ganization that provides several scholarship and learning opportu-nities for young people interested in cattle production, such as the Beef Scholarship Extravaganza and the Youth Beef Team program and scholarships. Funds are raised for ICF through an annual auction held during the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association Convention, memo-rial donations, cash donations, and a small fee raised through the pur-chase of Cattlemen Care license plates.

Faris named ICA vice president

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey encourages eligible farm owners to apply for the 2013 Century and Heritage Farm pro-gram. The program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Agri-culture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Farm Bureau and recog-nizes families who have owned their farm for 100 years in the case of Century Farms and 150 years for Heritage Farms. “These awards are an opportu-nity to recognize the hard work and commitment by these families that is necessary to keep a farm in the same family for 100 or 150 years,” Northey said. “If you consider all the challenges and unexpected ob-stacles each of them would have had to overcome during their life on the farm, it gives you a greater appreciation of the dedication and perseverance of each of the fami-lies being recognized.” Applications are available on the department’s website at www.IowaAgriculture.gov by clicking on the Century Farm or Heritage Farm link under “Hot Topics.” Applications may also be re-quested from Becky Lorenz, coordinator of the Century and Heritage Farm program via phone at 515-281-3645, email at Becky.Lorenz@IowaAgriculture.gov or by writing to Century or Heritage Farms Program, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Steward-ship, Henry A. Wallace Building, 502 E. 9th St., Des Moines, IA 50319. Farm families seeking to qualify for the Century or Heritage Farms Program must submit an applica-tion to the department no later than June 1, 2013. The ceremony to recognize the 2013 Century and Heritage Farms will be held at the Iowa State Fair and is scheduled for Tuesday, Au-gust 13.

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February 11 - By the time this column is read, the month is will be half over. Coming up on Mon-day will be the Community Sing-ers at 1:45 p.m. with the Blockton Community Church hosting the birthday party. A patriotic service will be planned on Feb. 21 in hon-or of President’s Day. Liz will lead country school in the morning at 9:30 a.m. on the same day. “Like” them on Facebook to see what is going on. Search for Clearview Home - Mount Ayr. Condolences go out to the fami-lies of Sarah Eike and Dorsey Der-rick. Sarah’s smile will be missed by everyone. Dorsey had always enjoyed music with the activ-ity staff. This, too, will be missed. Clearview staff and residents offer their sympathy and prayers. Monday Pattie read to a large group in the multipurpose room in the morning. Sommer spent time in the special care unit and read stories and shared pictures from the Our Iowa magazine. Coffee club was fun with Pat-tie serving puppy chow to the residents Tuesday morning. Peggy Wagenknecht was in for music in the morning with Lisa on piano. They also went to the special care unit to sing. Lisa played the piano in the south lobby. The Tingley Kitchen Band was in to enter-tain. Band members were few but mighty. They included Mary Jane Narigon, Iona Triggs, Doris Over-holser, Carmene James, Vern Jr. Brown, Evelyn Sickels and George Hosfi eld. Wednesday Pattie, Sommer and Kathi were busy with hand care all morning. Chris Conklin was in for church in the afternoon. Sommer made popcorn and watched some shows on the TVLand channel. Thursday Katie Zimmerman brought in a program about car-dinals. She had a video about the bird’s life cycle and their habits. She shared a mounted bird with the residents. In the afternoon a game of Valentine jingo was played. Seth Denney was in for Bible study to fi nish the afternoon. Sommer and Kathi hung the crayon heart craft residents made in the dining room. Friday Kathi read the Mount Ayr Record-News and Diagonal

Activities StaffActivities StaffClearview Home

Progress to the residents. In the afternoon they played bingo. Kathi called and Shawn Cameron passed prizes. Winners were Berniece Hoffman, Permelia Fletchall, Hel-en Mae Banks, Anita Hayworth and Anna Linkey. Marian Jennings was in to lead Sunday school one last time. She will be missed. Visitors last week were John, Lesa, Tucker and Baylee Dar-rah and Woodie, Marta and Joey Ladmier with Berniece Hoffman; Steven Padgitt with Jack Padgitt; Joyce Smith with Irene Spencer; Jim and Arlene Pearce with Edna Scott; Ruth Hay, Charles Grout, Robert Grout and Bev and Mike Auer with Pearl Grout; Grace Warin with Marilyn Rich-ards; Gerry King with Shirley Karr; Sherry Briner and Florence Bishop with Lawrence Bishop; Shirley Er-ickson with Don Strange; Jim, Lori and Allison Norris with Mildred Beymer; Chris Gilbert with Laura Osborn; Linda Konnath and Jim Ward with Roxie Trullinger; Peggy Wagenknecht with Iris Osborn and Marilyn Richards; Janis Tay-lor with Anna Linkey; Rick Scott of Leon with Gerata Scott; Joyce England with Lois Anne Sobotka; Trudy Weaver with Virginia Weav-er, and Bob and Kay Sickels with Vera Daughton.

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February 11 - The Kellerton Assembly of God Church has changed the time of their Sunday evening church service. It is now at 6 p.m. Next Tuesday, Feb. 19, is the food bank at the Bank of Christ Outreach Church from noon to 5 p.m. Anyone needing or want-ing food assistance is welcome to come. Kathy and her crew would probably be thankful for any help during the day, also. Saturday, Feb. 16, will be the SIPR Breakfast for Supper at the community center. Serving will start at 5 p.m., and continue until 7 p.m. Come and join us. This sup-per is held the third Saturday of every month, except December. Rod and Debbie Holmes, Judy Doolittle, Jan Holmes and Kath-ryn Still went to Quilt Country for

lunch after church Sunday. Kay Doolittle visited in the home of Judy Doolittle after church Sunday evening. Marlene Greimann visited with her daughters, the Crafts in Des Moines and the Goddards in Chari-ton, this past weekend. Larry and Dorothy McAtee went to Davis City to hear their grandson, Matthew Hullinger, preach Sunday. Diane and Richard Servetti visited with her mother, Betty Stu-art, Saturday and took her out to lunch. Jan Holmes and Kathryn Still went to Mount Ayr Tuesday on business and had lunch at Rumors with Doug and Luke Still. Kathryn went to the basketball game with Katie Still Tuesday evening. The sisters went to Lamoni on business Wednesday and had lunch at the Sale Barn Cafe. The sisters were Creston shoppers Friday and had lunch with Greg Still at Creston Family Restaurant. Bryce Still vis-ited with his two grandmas Satur-day.

February 11 - A strong brisk west wind this Monday morn-ing drives right to the bones. The mud is a little more solid with the 30-degree temperature. Harley and Lena Yoder of Ver-digre, NE were in the area last week, being overnight guests at Albert Yoder’s and dinner guests of Vernon Troyer’s Friday. They were promoting a product, Protan-dim. William, 11 years old, son of Sammie and Alma Mast, under-went an eight-hour eye operation in Iowa City last Monday. Lorene Bontrager (Samuel’s) is in Bloomfi eld for several weeks helping her cousin, the Amos Masts, cleaning house. Junior Millers had a quilting Thursday for the church women where 14 attended. Saturday they had another quilting bee for the youth girls. The one quilt was a Jacobs Ladder design done in blues. The other one was a plain top with roses.

Eli Yoders and Eli Hochstetlers went to the Chariton area Saturday to visit siblings. Eli Hochstetlers went to her sister, the Levi Shet-ler’s, who had a new baby recently, and Eli Yoders to her sister’s, but unfortunately they weren’t at home so they also spent the day at Levi Shetler’s. “If you are patient in one mo-ment of anger, you will escape 100 days of sorrow.”

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Four Mount Ayr wrestlers with high hopes and high expectations traveled to the district wrestling tournament at Corning on Sat-urday, Feb. 9. Only one of them came home with his dreams ful-fi lled. Erik Freed won the 132-pound district championship and will compete in the state tournament be-ginning this week in Des Moines. A two-time state qualifi er, Freed will face sophomore Zach Brunner (32-11) from North Fayette in his fi rst-round match Thursday at 9 a.m. Freed left no doubt who was the best wrestler in his weight class as he won both his matches by pin. His fi rst match was a win over Austin Dollen of Griswold. Freed gave his fans some anxious mo-ments in this match as he got taken down and put on his back. He was able to recover, however, with a re-versal before he put Dollen on his

Freed advances to stateKnapp, Staats, Swank fall short of qualifi ying

back. The mat was slapped close to the end of the fi rst period indi-cating Freed had gotten the pin. In his second match Freed also came from behind as he pinned Clay Harris of Riverside, Oakland. In this match he got taken down but quickly escaped and scored his own takedown. In the second pe-riod Freed reversed Harris and was able to get him on his back to get the pin. The other three Mount Ayr wrestlers were disappointed in their quest for a trip to the state tournament. At 113 Dawson Knapp placed third. He lost his fi rst match to Jacob Vogel of Riv-erside, Oakland. Vogel put the pressure on Knapp from the very start as he scored a quick take-down. He then repeatedly was able to put Kanpp on his back for near-fall points until he had enough to earn the technical fall midway

through the third period. Knapp looked like a different wrestler in his wrestleback match as he domi-nated Troy Schwartz of Guthrie Center. Knapp had a commanding 15-4 lead over Schwartz before he scored the fall in the third period. There was no wrestleback for sec-ond place as Vogel was defeated in the fi nals. Grant Staats lost two heart-breakers to end his season. He lost by fall to Zach Vance of Griswold in his fi rst match. Staats led 4-2 in this match going into the third period but got caught in a cradle that he could not get out of which resulted in the fall. His next match against Tucker Patrick of Guthrie Center ended in an overtime loss. Once again Staats looked like he was on his way to a win as he led going into the third period. Some questionable offi ciating in this pe-riod allowed Patrick to pull within

two and as time expired he scored a reversal on Staats to send the match into overtime. Patrick got the takedown in the overtime to get the win. At 160 Shane Swank won his fi rst match over Trevor Hough of Underwood. Swank got out to a quick fi ve-point lead before Hough pulled within one as they headed into the fi nal period. Swank built up his lead during this period and won the match 10-6. Swank lost his second match to Wyatt Lewis of St. Albert. Swank trailed most of the way in this defensive match and was out-pointed 5-2. This put Swank in a wrestle back for second against Tyler Hein of Panorama. Swank got the takedown and was attempting to tilt Hein when he got caught in a headlock and was pinned.

Erik Freed of Mount Ayr celebrates after winning the 132-pound district wrestling title in Corning Saturday allowing him to advance to the state wrestling tournament this week.

Celebrating the win

Mount Ayr Community winter athletes were recognized between the fi nal home basketball games Tuesday, February 5. Seniors included Jasper Abarr, son of Charles and Rebecca Abarr; Jennifer Blair, daughter of James and Suzanne Blair; Erin Dolech-eck, daughter of Allan and Naomi Dolecheck; Dylan Doman, son of Tracy and Deanna Doman; Han-nah Fletchall, daughter of Jeff and Becky Fletchall; Emily Fox, daugh-ter of Rick and Jody Fox; Caitlin Giles, daugther of Scott and Tracy Giles; Madison Hosfi eld, daughter of Randy and Stephanie Hosfi eld; Maggie Jennett, daughter of Steve and Chantelle Jennett; Braydee Poore, son of Clint and Pam Poore; Austin Quick, son of Bruce and Kris Quick; Morgan Quick, daughter of Jeff and Rhon-da Quick; April Shields, daughter of Dave and Kim Shields; Jacob Still, son of Ronch and Katie Still; Taylor Still, daughter of Doug and Gina Still; Johnathan Triggs, son of Kevin and Kathy Triggs; Kylie Wilson, daughter of Lisa and the late Fred Wilson, and Logan Wim-er, daughter of Brian and Wendy Wimer. In addition, three Raider senior wrestlers were honored at a recog-nition during their fi nal home meet January 24: Zach Lemon is the son of Rob and Ondrea Dory, Zane Sickels is the son of Jeff and Amy Sickels and Shane Swank is the son of Mike and Melinda Swank.

Senior Mount Ayr athletes honored

Comeback falls short as Raiderette season ends The Raiderettes 2012-13 basket-ball schedule came to a close in their fi rst post-season game as Mount Ayr fell to Central Decatur, 56-43, Saturday, Feb. 9 at Leon. The Raiderettes stayed with the Cardi-nals in the fi rst quarter of the game, but a huge Central Decatur 16-point run went unanswered by the Raider-ettes in the second quarter and left Mount Ayr trailing by 20 points at

halftime. The Raiderettes battled back coming out of the locker room to hold the Cardinals to six points and closed the gap to 36-45 with CD still holding the lead in the third quarter. As the clock wound down, Mount Ayr was unable to catch the Cardinals and Central Decatur claimed the game and will advance in post-season play. “We launched a heck of a come-

back, played hard and knocked down some big shots,” commented coach Thad Streit, “but the early deficit was too big to overcome tonight.” Seniors led the way in their fi nal high school game with Caitlin Giles scoring 13 points and Taylor Still recording 12 rebounds, three steals and two blocked shots. Most assists honors were shared by Paige

Daughton and Ashton Johnson with three each. 1 2 3 4 TPMA 14 5 17 7 43CD 18 21 6 11 56 2pt 3pt FT TP R S B A Rychnovsky 2-7 2-7 0-0 6 2 1 0 1Daughton 2-6 0-0 2-5 6 3 2 2 3Johnson 2-7 0-1 0-0 4 4 2 0 2Fox 1-3 0-0 0-0 2 1 0 0 0Giles 4-9 3-5 2-2 13 4 1 0 2Fletchall 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 Still 5-9 0-0 2-6 12 12 3 2 0

Leah Klejch goes up for two points in recent Raiderette action.

The Raiderette and Raider JV closed out their regular seasons with easy wins over Lenox. Both teams played two quarters.Raiderette JV 22, Lenox 8 Coach Mark Budach praised his team in their fi nal contest for a “good team effort.” Lead scorers were Hannah Glendenning and Allie Shields with seven points each. Glendenning had top steals with three, and Shields was top rebounder with nine. Shel-bie Greene recorded the most assists with fi ve.Raider JV Black 25, Lenox 8 Six Raiders contributed to the team points in a balanced scoring attack. Points leaders were Jed McCreary with nine and Rhett Murphy with eight. Nick Wurster, Caleb Schnoor, Connor Giles and Kyle Dolecheck all contributed two points each. Coach Bret Ruggles commented, “Coach Jeff Levine and I have really enjoyed watching this team improve with every game. I have been very impressed with their level of knowledge of the game picked up from the beginning and their over-all effort each night. With both JV teams we are building a great future for Raider basketball!”

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Mount Ayr teams close regular seasons with convincing wins The Mount Ayr varsity girls and boys closed out their regular sea-son with decisive home wins over Lenox Tuesday, Feb. 5.Raiderettes 66, Lenox 35 The Raiderettes ended their regular season play with what coach Thad Streit called, “a lot of heart from a team on a mission,” beating the Lenox Tigers, 66-35 Tuesday, Feb. 5. The Raiderettes took a decisive lead in the fi rst quarter and led 34-20 at halftime. They pushed the lead to 48-27 at the end of three periods on their way to the 31-point fi nal margin. Solid team effort defined the night as Brooke Rychnovsky did a nice job nailing four out of seven 3-point shots. Taylor Still was team leader overall with 25 points, six rebounds and four steals. Ashton Johnson and Caitlin Giles recorded six and five assists respectively. Giles, Paige Daughton, Logan Wimer and Leah Klejch also did a nice job on the boards. Senior Raiderettes recognized after the game were Emily Fox, Morgan Quick, Caitlin Giles, Lo-

gan Wimer, Hannah Fletchall and Taylor Still. 1 2 3 4 TPLenox 9 11 7 8 35MA 18 16 14 18 66 2pt 3pt FT TP R S B A Rychnovsky 4-9 4-7 1-2 13 0 0 0 0Daughton 0-2 0-0 1-2 1 5 1 0 2Johnson 1-4 0-2 2-2 4 2 0 0 6Fox 0-3 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 1 2Giles 2-6 1-3 0-0 5 5 4 0 5Fletchall 5-10 0-0 0-5 10 5 3 0 1Wimer 2-4 0-0 1-2 4 4 2 0 0Klejch 2-4 0-0 0-2 4 4 3 0 1Still 12-14 0-0 1-2 25 6 4 1 2

Raiders 73, Lenox 43 Starting out a “little flat,” in coach Bret Ruggles’ words, the Raiders trailed at the end of the fi rst quarter, 14-8, but came back to move ahead by four points, 28-24, as they retired to the locker room at halftime. Mount Ayr continued to outscore the Tigers the rest of the game with posts Jake Sobotka, Jed McCreary and John Triggs getting the job done under the basket. Coach Ruggles remarked, “Our second half play looked more like

a team ready to push to the state tournament.” Leading the way for the Raid-ers was senior Jake Still with 19 points, four rebounds, fi ve steals, two blocked shots and six assists. Senior Braydee Poore recorded six rebounds. Senior Raiders honored at par-ent’s night were Dylan Doman, Austin Quick, Braydee Poore, Jake Still and JohnathanTriggs.

1 2 3 4 TPLenox 14 10 10 9 43 MA 8 20 28 17 73 2pt 3pt FT TP R S B ADoman 4-6 1-1 0-0 9 1 0 0 5Jones 2-3 0-0 3-3 7 1 0 0 1Quick 0-6 0-0 1-2 1 5 0 0 1Poore 6-15 0-5 2-3 14 6 0 0 1Still 7-13 5-5 0-0 19 4 5 2 6Triggs 3-4 0-0 1-2 7 4 2 0 1McCreary 2-5 0-0 1-1 5 4 0 0 0Schnoor 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0Weehler 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0Sobotka 2-3 0-0 1-4 5 1 0 0 0Paxson 2-2 0-0 0-2 4 0 0 0 0Martin 0-0 0-0 2-2 2 0 1 0 0

Basketball seniorsSenior members of the Raiderettes and Raiders basketball teams include: (kneeling) Austin Quick and Dylan Doman; (second row) Morgan Quick, Logan Wimer, Hannah Fletchall, Taylor Still, Caitlin Giles and Emily Fox; (back) Johnathan Triggs, Braydee Poore and Jacob Still.

Wrestling seniors

Zach Lemon

Zane Sickels

Shane Swank

The Diagonal Maroons dropped their last home game of the year to Lamoni but fi nished the regular season above .500 by downing Es-sex on the road.Lamoni 73, Diagonal 40 The Demons just had too much fi re power and height for the Ma-roons to overcome. Lamoni used a big fi rst and fourth quarter in the win as they led 24-10 after one quarter and 36-14 at the half. The Maroons outscored the Demons in the third period to trail 49-30, but could not continue the momen-tum. On the night the Maroons were led by senior Heath Evans with 16 points, fi ve rebounds and three as-sists. Ryan Parrott had 11 points, fi ve rebounds, one assist and two steals. Senior Shad Haidsiak had seven points, three rebounds, one assist and one steal. Kenny Wea-selhead added four points and two rebounds. Blake Butler had two points, two rebounds, four assists and a steal. Jacob Taylor collected three rebounds, three assists and three steals, and Kade Means add-ed a rebound and a steal. The Maroons shot 38 percent from the fi eld, 25 percent from the three-point line and an ice-cold 27 percent from the free throw line, hitting only four of 15 shots. Coach Warren had no explana-tion for the cold shooting from the line since they shoot free throws every day. “Lamoni is a very ath-letic team and have a chance to go deep into the post-season tour-nament if they play like that,” he said.Diagonal 41, Essex 39 It doesn’t matter how long you lead in a ball game as long as you lead when the clock hits zero. For Diagonal, 16 seconds was long enough. That is what the DiagonalMaroons did at Essex on Tues-day night as they trailed the entire game until Essex missed two free throws and Shad Haidsiak nailed his two in a 41-39 win. Diagonal struggled the entire night, both offensively and defen-sively, but managed to eek out the win. Coach Warren told his team after the game, “Even on your worst nights you have to fi nd a way to win, and that is what we did.” The Maroons trailed 10-4 after one period and 22-16 at the half. The Maroons cut the lead to 32-29 after three periods and then outscored Essex 12-7 in the fi nal

Bluegrass LeagueWeek February 5, 2013

Team StandingsHutton Construction 22-6Sassy Strikers 17-11Raggamuffi ns 15-13Giggling Girlies 12-16Rolling Stones 10-18Lucky Ladies 8-20 High games (150 and over): Deb Ayres 168, 179, 165; Renda Smith 162; Linda Green 160; Jenine Vice 159; Selina O’Connor 158; Lorrie Haver 156; Debra Larson 155; Mer-na King 153; Ronda Smith 152. High series (450 and over): Deb Ayres 512. Thursday Men’s League

Week of February 7, 2013Team Standings

Lucky Lanes 19.5-8.5IWIWALB 16-12DAE 15-13Hy-Vee 13.5-14.5Suds & Gutters 11-17Lefty’s 9-19 High games (200 and over): Russ Stewart 204, 224, 266; Scott Myer 233; Brian Sheil 229, 216; Ron Sick-els 222; Eric Ehlen 208; Barry Jack-son 205; Eric Dolecheck 201. High series (600 and over): Russ Stewart 694, Scott Myer 604.

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quarter for the win. Diagonal was led by Jacob Tay-lor with 10 points, two rebounds, three steals and three assists. Blake Butler had nine points, three re-bounds, one assist and two steals. Heath Evans also had nine points plus 10 rebounds and two steals. Shad Haidsiak added eight points, one rebound and two assists. Ryan Parrott chipped in with eight points, six rebounds and a block. For the game, Diagonal only managed 44 shots, hitting 13 of them for a cold 29 percent and only 23 percent behind the line making three of 13. The bright spot on the night was the free throw shooting as they went to the line 16 times and converted 12 of them for 75 percent. The Maroons now stand at 11-10 at the end of the regular season. Up next will be the district tourna-ments as they travel to Mount Ayr for a showdown with the Raiders.

Maroons post 11-10 regular season record

Jack Jones battles on the boards for the Raiders against Lennox in a 73-43 victory. The Raiders will open district tournament play against Diagonal tonight (Thursday) on their home court.

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PublicNotices

February 4, 2013 The city council met in regular session on February 4, 2013 with Mayor Solliday calling the meeting to order at 6 p.m. Roll call was taken with the following members present: Greene, Stutzman, Cannon. Absent: Mathany, Ricker. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Stutzman, to approve the agenda. Ayes: Greene, Stutzman, Cannon. Nays: None. Mayor Solliday asked if any cor-rections needed to be made in the minutes. With no corrections being made, a motion was made by Greene, seconded by Stutzman, to dispense the reading of the minutes previous-ly presented to council members and approve them as presented. Ayes: Greene, Stutzman, Cannon. Nays: None. SICOG’s Lucas Young was pres-ent to handle matters in regard to the CDBG Housing Rehab Grant which is in the stage of having contracts awarded for construction. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to approve Resolution No. 2013-498 entitled “Awarding Housing Rehabilitation Contract For Project #1” to Frey Construction in the amount of $32,975. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Greene, seconded by Cannon, to approve Resolution No. 2013-499 entitled “Awarding Housing Rehabilitation

Contract For Project #2” to Fredrick-sen Construction in the amount of $34,700. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. Following discussion on the hous-ing rehabilitation contract award for Project #5, a motion was made by Stutzman, seconded by Cannon, to hold off on the contract award for Project #5 until a letter is sent to the recipient property owner and the required action is taken to properly clean up another property the recipi-ent owns. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Greene, seconded by Cannon, to approve the Iowa Homeland Security & Emer-gency Management Advance Pay-ment Request No. 7 in the amount of $50,119.15 for the Mount Ayr Aquatic Center Safe Room Project: Grant Agreement Number: HMGP-DR-1737-003301. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Can-non, Yes. A motion was made by Greene, seconded by Stutzman, to approve the fi rst reading of Ordinance No. 19, “An Ordinance Amending The Code Of Ordinances Of The City Of Mount Ayr, Iowa, 2007, By Amend-ing Provision Pertaining To Coun-cil Compensation.” Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Can-non, Yes. A motion was made by Greene, seconded by Cannon, to approve Resolution No. 2013-494 entitled, “Application For Tax Abatement Under the City of Mount Ayr Urban Revitalization Plan” for Larry and Karon Giles. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Stutzman, to approve Resolution No. 2013-495 entitled, “Application For Tax Abatement Under the City of Mount Ayr Ur-ban Revitalization Plan” for Robert J. and Debra D. Murphy. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to approve Resolution No. 2013-496 entitled, “Application For Tax Abatement Under the City of Mount Ayr Urban Revitalization Plan” for Van Buren Square LLC. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to approve Resolution No. 2013-497 entitled, “Application For Tax Abatement Under the City of Mount Ayr Urban Revitalization Plan” for Van Buren Square LLC. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Stutzman, to approve Resolution No. 2013-501 entitled, “Application For Tax Abatement Under the City of Mount Ayr Ur-ban Revitalization Plan” for Dennis and Kathy Hemann. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Can-non, Yes. A motion was made by Greene, seconded by Cannon, to approve Resolution No. 2013-502 entitled, “Application For Tax Abatement Under the City of Mount Ayr Ur-ban Revitalization Plan” for Helen Schardein. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes.

RESOLUTION APPROVING DEED EXCHANGE

A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to approve Res-olution No. 2013-503 entitled, “Res-olution Assenting To The Exchange Of Certain Real Estate Between The City Of Mount Ayr, Iowa And Van Buren Square, LLC” inclusive of Warranty Deed documents executing the exchange. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. A motion was made by Greene, seconded by Cannon, to approve Dollar General #9103 “Application For Iowa Retail Cigarette/Tobacco Permit” for the period through June 30, 2013. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Cannon, Yes. Tim Newton of Divine Waste ad-dressed the council asking that his business be considered to handle the city’s garbage disposal needs. It was noted if changes are to be introduced to the current garbage, it would need to be put out for bids where all the specifi cations would be detailed. Amanda Cannon, the city’s certi-

fi ed pool operator, brought pricing provided by ACCO for replacement of a leaking eight-inch (8”) cast iron pipe in the surge/trash basket pit which connects to the new PVC pip-ing installed in the spring of 2012 and to waterproof and seal any leaks in the surge/trash basket pit. Questions were raised as to why this one pipe was excluded from the initial repairs to replace all the piping, so Cannon was directed to set up a meeting with ACCO representatives to get an ex-planation. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Stutzman, to approve ACCO’s price of $4,724.70 for ap-plication of Aquafi n coating to the surge/trash basket pit. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Can-non, Yes. A motion was made by Stutzman, seconded by Greene, to approve the implementation of a new “city logo” which coincides with the recently approved entry signs. Roll call vote: Greene, Yes; Stutzman, Yes; Can-non, Yes. Superintendent Brent Wise re-ported on the research he had done in regard to the city operating its own garbage removal operation. In two options presented, information refl ected a fi rst year annual expense between $228,988 to $234,578 (which included the truck purchase) then a second-year operating cost of $147,920. The annual cost for the “landfi ll allocation” is $16,910 and the city would need to develop a re-cycling plan as well. Wise also shared his thoughts that the city just maintains a three-pickup fl eet and suggested replacing the utility truck with a better-quality pickup in the $15,000 range, pos-sibly a fl atbed for greater versatil-ity. Wise also recommended setting aside $6,000 annually in reserve so every three years the city would be in a position to update the fl eet. Following Wise’s fi rst snow event, he felt there was room for improve-ment on the square and some other areas and assured adjustments would be made going forward. In regard to lift station monitoring, council ap-proved of Wise’s recommendation that there be on-site visual inspec-tions on Monday and Friday and the rest of the week would be monitored over the internet. Other operations reported: Read meters; repaired meters; six loads of sludge hauled to DM; media for trickling fi lter needs to be deemed with no trace of mercury; DNR in-spection of water plant this week; prefab building for shed at wastewa-ter plant more costly than supplies from Southwest Builder Supply; IAMU representative there February 11 for safety manual review; Wise to DMACC for water courses Febru-ary 12, 13, 19 and 20 and Kirkwood February 28, and operators exams anticipated for month of March. A short budget session was held to fi nalize fi gures for the FY begin-ning July 1, 2013. The Budget Esti-mate Summary of proposed receipts and expenditures will be prepared and the date for the public hearing will be set at the next meeting. In other discussion, council-man Cannon pointed out the brick pathway along the west side of the streetscape needs lifted up. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to pay the fol-lowing bills: Ayes: Greene, Stutz-man, Cannon. Nays: None.

SIRWA, rural water, $16,040.50.US Bank, federal withholding/

FICA tax, $2,752.76.Treasurer, State of Iowa, state/

sales tax, $3,556.00.Treasurer, State of Iowa, un-

claimed property, $6,261.41.IPERS, IPERS, $3,049.65.BAC, vision insurance, $103.52.US Postal Service, postage,

$344.03.City of Mount Ayr, PD insurance,

$567.40.City of Mount Ayr, deposits,

$384.81.Ringgold County Supervisors,

law enforcement, $12,865.52.Record-News, publishing charg-

es, $388.56.Alliant, gas/electric, $9,463.77.Farm & Home, supplies,

$143.93.

Southwest Builder Supply, mate-rials, $1,298.00.

Lynn’s Sinclair, fuel,$233.06.Co-op, hose, $48.64.Offi ce Machines , fl ash drive,

$7.89.MES, analysis, $676.00.IDNR, fees, $40.00.CNH Capital, repairs/parts,

$4,688.35.Matheson, gases, $51.88.Goob’s, tires, $522.07.Hynek Pit Pumping, haul sludge,

$4,136.44.Saint Luke’s, dues, $30.00.Quill, ink, $73.95.Burbach, services, $2,491.81.MSA, engineering, $6,818.70.NAPA, parts, $292.52.Fastenal, supplies, $386.42.Central Pump, parts, $548.60.Delta Dental, insurance, $171.00.Casey’s, fuel, $341.06.Hilltop, fees, $242.00.Josh Wilson, deposit, $125.19.CobraToday, insurance, $971.67.Payroll, 1/25/2013, $5,302.89.Payroll, 1/29/2013, 138.02.Payroll, 2/01/2013, $3,490.43. Gross claims, $89,048.45.(By fund: General, $19,436.73; garbage, $114.67;

RUT, $7756.98; employee benefi t, $3,105.10; aquatic center, $2,491.81; water, $29,906.75; water improve-ment, $4,381.20; sewer, $21,855.21.) A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to adjourn. DONALD B. SOLLIDAY MayorATTEST: PAMELLA POORE City Clerk

RFP Notifi cation – February 5, 2013

Southwest 8 Senior Services, Inc. is currently soliciting proposals to provide services to individuals age 60 and older and their family care-givers. The Request for Proposals (RFP) being issued on February 5, 2013 is for those agencies who wish to contract with Southwest 8 for any of the home and community based services listed in the proposal. This RFP does not apply to those agen-cies that wish to have a purchase of service agreement with the agency in FY2014. The notifi cation on those agreements will be issued in April. Proposals are due back in the Southwest 8 offi ce by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 4, 2013. You may download a copy of the RFP on our website, www.south-west8.org, stop by the offi ce at 300 W. Broadway, Suite 240 in Council Bluffs or phone 712-328-2540 ext. 1042 to request a copy be mailed to you. 51-2t

PUBLIC NOTICE Southwest 8 Senior Services will hold a public hearing at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at The Red Cross Building on the Lakin Human Services campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The address is 705 N. 16th Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public input regarding the agency’s service plan for their new expanded 20-county area starting July 1, 2013. 51-1t

Donna and Megan Warin vis-ited with Willa Poore several times in her Mount Ayr home throughout the week. They helped her cel-ebrate her 80th birthday Monday. Greg, Amy, Maddie, Emma and Gracie Mobley attend the basket-ball game in Leon Saturday night to watch the varsity girls in the dis-trict game.

Mount Ayr Health Care Center

Activities Staff

February 11 - Happy Valen-tine’s Day! Those at Health Care are excited to fi nd out who their very own Valentine’s Day king and queen will be at the Valentine’s Day party to be held this afternoon (Thursday, Feb. 14). The celebra-tion will begin at 2 p.m. with mu-sic, games, refreshments, cards and, of course, the crowning of the king and queen. Health Care is also planning to celebrate February birthdays this coming Sunday afternoon with the 4-H club as hosts. This party will begin at 2 p.m. and will be spent enjoying not only refreshments but also an afternoon of bingo. This month Darlene Minnick will be the guest of honor. Ruth Angus enjoyed attend-ing church with her family as well as lunch out Sunday. Danny Gregg had a nice time visiting with friends at the Mount Ayr Meal Site both Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Neil Stanley was present to join his mother, Ada, for lunch a couple of times this past week. Junior Karr was a lunch guest of Elaine McCa-mpbell. Judy Doolittle was a lunch guest of her mother, Loreen Reed, Saturday. Sunday found Phyllis Sickels eating the noon meal with her mother, Sylvia Hall. Have you been noticing that robins and cardinals are now re-turning to Iowa? Residents have been seeing several of these birds in the front yard and feasting at the bird feeders outside the windows. Ranger Kate Zimmerman was there Monday morning with a very nice program all about the North-ern Cardinal. Residents found out that the cardinal pairs stay together through life and have three to four clutches in a year. After learning all about the cardinal, all enjoyed a video on a variety of birds compar-ing size, mating calls and more. With a cool day in mind, ladies discussed different kinds of soups as well as viewed new soup gad-gets, soup containers and condi-ments and foods that go with soup. Each, in turn shared their favorite kind of soup before departing from ladies club. Men, on the other hand, had a wonderful discussion about the spring weather with the main fo-cus on tornadoes. Many interesting stories were told by some who had either been close to a tornado or actually had damage to their home or farm in the past tornadoes. Dis-cussion was made on safest places to go during a tornado -- whether inside a building or outside where there is no shelter available. Three out of the four fi shermen and women from Mount Ayr Health Care and Maple Ridge gathered at the home of Bob and Marlene Hinz last Tuesday morning for a fi sh fry. Marlene fried the fi sh that were caught by the group this past sum-mer and all agreed that they were the best tasting fi sh ever! Every-one certainly appreciated Marlene and her cooking skills and Deanna and Bob for taking them fi shing all summer long, not to mention those nice people who allowed them to fi sh from their ponds. After eating their catch, they can hardly wait for the fi rst fi shing trip this spring! Bingo was enjoyed with the help of Phyllis Riggs, Phyllis Sick-els, Cheri Dessinger and Corwin Karr. Judy Doolittle was a guest player of her mother, Loreen Reed. Winners included June Steinman, Betty Ruby, Kenny Driftmier, Phyllis Faubion, Sylvia Hall, Max-ine Werner, Catherine Crawford, Marvin Morse and Evalee White. Blackout winner was Elaine Mc-Campbell. Weather lore and bird words were fun Wednesday morning just before Pastor Chris Conklin arrived along with Charlotte Swank. Pas-tor Chris provided a sermon while Charlotte played the piano. Valen-tine word searches were completed before a visit from L.A.M.B.S., a youth group from the First Chris-tian Church. Together children and residents constructed posters fi lled with hearts naming so many of their loved ones. Be sure to take a look at their artwork on your next visit. Thursday was a busy day fi lled with nail care, hair care, exer-cises and a visit from their RCSS friends. Together residents and visitors laced hearts, played games and enjoyed refreshments. Friday started off with target toss, a new game. Even though the target was huge, it was a bit of a challenge to hold on to a high score with bean bags fl ying every which way as residents aimed for the bull’s eye. The morning closed with trivia and exercises. The af-ternoon was spent with the Com-munity Singers who sang many favorite hymns. Sunday found everyone saying so long to Marian Jennings after she delivered the message during Sunday school class. All will miss Marion as well as all of the extra little things she brings to go along with her lessons. All appreciate the many years she has spent teaching

there. Welcome visitors over the past week have been: Neil Stanley with Ada Stanley; Ellen Powell, Norma Lee Jones and Marie Still with Ruth Angus; Cheri Dessinger, Phyllis Sickels and Esta Deemer of Osceola with Sylvia Hall; Ed and Colleen Minnick with Darlene Minnick; Roger Gregg with Danny and Calvin Gregg; Joni Dugan with Bernadine McBride; Sharon Bow-en with June Steinman; Wayne and Suzanne Brown of Pleasant Hill, Marilyn Bolte of West Des Moines and Irene Merical of Adel with Shirley Brown; Jean Gilliland with Earl Brand; Pat Teply and Missy the dog with Gerald Gardner; Carol and Arlene Sobotka with Dorothy Sobotka; James Ruby and Lois Grace with Betty Ruby; Judy Doolittle with Loreen Reed; Connie Worthington of Des Moines and Hank Smith with Margaret Fletchall; Phil and Merna King of Bedford and Dan King with Ed and Lorraine King; Steve and Marilyn Werner with Maxine Werner; Frank Gunsol-ley and Janice McGee of Mercer, MO with Wayne and Irene Bohn; Ethel Campbell with Donald Campbell; Pam Cooper with Vir-ginia Albers; Betty Karas and Vera Moore with Bev Moore; Ann Beech of Des Moines, Mi-chelle Larson of Bevington and Vern Brown, Bernard Crawford, Harold and Samantha Crawford and Jim and Rosemary Hullinger with Catherine Crawford; Rhonda Cooper of Kent with Kathryn Ad-ams; John and Mary Howell of Glenwood with Paul and Marie Campbell, and Bob Carey of An-keny with Irene Hogue.

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February 11 - Cary, Debbie and Taylor Braby and friend Dan-iel were overnight guests of Craig and Kathi Braby last week. Quincy Main and Tori Braby also visited with the Brabys. Junior varsity basketball ended Tuesday with a win against Lenox. Maddie Mobley was a member of that team. Riley Weehler is a mem-ber of the boys team. Saturday evening Dick and Joyce Weehler and Wendell and Joan Jackson attended the Knights of Columbus supper at Saint Jo-seph church in Mount Ayr. Donna and Megan Warin and Rachel Gregg went to Ames Satur-day. They met with Katelyn Warin who is a student at ISU. They all attended the ISU vs. Kansas State women’s basketball game. Saturday night Craig and Kathi Braby visited with Jeremy and Tori Larsen. Later they all went to the Mount Ayr girls basketball game in Leon. Joyce and Jill Weehler went to Creston Sunday afternoon to watch Mallory Weehler in the competi-tion preview dance performance for her dance class. Richard and Carole Davison helped his stepmother celebrate her 90th birthday Wednesday at the A&G restaurant in Maryville. MO. Emma Mobley and Paige Lynch played basketball in Murray Satur-day. The team got second in the tournament. Megan Warin attended the monthly meeting of the Junior Farmers 4-H club Sunday after-noon. She went to basketball prac-tice after the meeting.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013 Mount Ayr Record-News 11

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In Memory OfDon Huff

1928-2012One or the other must leaveOne or the other must stay,

One or the othermust grieve

That is forever the Way.That is the vowthat was sworn,

Faithful till deathdo us part.

Braving whathas to be borne,Hiding the ache

in the heart.One howsoever adored,

First must besummoned away.

That is the will of the Lord,One or the other must stay.

We love you Don,Connie, Chris, Jake,

Willis, Candyand Kathy

Thank You……to the Mount Ayr Medical Clinic and

Ringgold County Hospital staffs and doctors for all their care while I was hospitalized. Thank you to my daughter, Janet, for all the tender loving care she gave to me while I was recuperating from my fall.

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Church Obituaries Public NoticesObituariesChurch Notes

Mount Ayr Larger ParishUnited Methodist Churches

Pastor Skip RushingRedding

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. Glen Wilwerding, Pastor

Sunday mass, 8:00 a.m.

St. Patrick’s Catholic ChurchGrand River

Fr. Glen Wilwerding, Pastor Saturdays, mass at 5:30 p.m.

United Church of Diagonal

Pastor 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, February 17: 8:00 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

(515-783-7712)See our facebook page

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.

Fridays: Kids Club - 5 to 7 p.m.

Kellerton

United Methodist ChurchRev. 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.

United Baptist-Presbyterian Church

2343 State Highway 169Mount Ayr

Michael Maddy, Pastor(641-464-2127)

www.ubpchurch.com Sunday, February 17: 9:00 a.m., Sunday school.

10:00 a.m., Church service. Greeter, Dean Blades; Call to worship, Deb Larson: Musician, Becky Gordon; Children’s sermon, Pastor Mike Maddy; Message, Mike Maddy. Monday, February 18: 5 p.m., Stretch exercises-UBP Church. Tuesday, February 19: 7 a.m., Men’s breakfast at UBP Church. Wednesday, February 20: 5:00 p.m., Stretch exercises. 5:30 p.m., Choir practice at UBP Church. 6:30 p.m., Bible study at Mount Ayr Health Care.

Faith United ParishPastor Bruce Giese

Platte Center 8:30 a.m., Worship. 10:00 a.m., Sunday School.

First Christian Church Pastor Chris Conklin

Sunday, February 17: 7:00 a.m., Men’s breakfast. 9:00 a.m., Sunday school. 10:00 a.m., Church. Wednesday, February 20: 9 a.m., WIC. 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. 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, February 17: 11:00 a.m., Worship service with Larry Heltenberg speaking.

Mount Ayr Restoration BranchSherman Phipps, Presiding Elder

Alan Smith, AssistantSunday, February 17:

Welcomers: Ed Anderson family. 9:45 a.m., Family Worship, Ron Smith family. 10:00 a.m., Classes. 11:00 a.m., Worship. Gordon Win-kler, presiding; Alan Smith, speaking; Cheryl Phipps, pianist; Steven Smith, special music. Custodians: Bob Rowland. 6:00 p.m., Family fellowship at Rob Rolfe home. Wednesday, February 20: 7:00 p.m., Prayer service at Alan Smith home. George Knotts, presid-ing.

Kellerton church to change times The Kellerton Assembly of God Church has made time changes. Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. Sunday worship service is 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening worship is at 6 p.m. and Wednesday adult Bible study will be at 7 p.m.

Open Closet to be held at Mount Ayr Assembly of God Everything from clothes/shoes to housewares to sheets/blankets is gathered and distributed. They have all seasons and all sizes. All items are in good condition. Ev-erything if free! Just stop by and take what you need. The Open Closet will be the fi rst Saturday of every month. Next date is Saturday, March 2 from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Mount Ayr Assem-bly of God, 1605 W. South Street, Mount Ayr.

Helen AndersonHELEN ANDERSON

Helen Anderson, 98, of Cres-ton, Iowa passed away Wednesday, February 6, 2013, at the Greater Regional Hospice Home in Cres-ton. Funeral services were Satur-day, February 9, 2013, at the First Baptist Church in Creston. Pas-tor Robert Anderson, Pastor Da-vid Tebbenkamp and Pastor Dan Fields offi ciated the service. Burial was at the Oakland Cemetery. Me-morials can be made to the First Baptist Church in Creston. Online condolences may be made under the obituary category at www.powersfh.com. Helen (Vance) Anderson was born March 4, 1914 in the farm house of her parents, George and Jennie Vance, three miles east of Mount Ayr and grew up in Lesan-ville, where the present day Ram-sey Farm is located. After graduat-ing from Mount Ayr high school, she taught school for $40 a month for two years at the Walnut Val-ley one-room country school in Washington township in Ringgold county. On September 6, 1934 she married Wayne Anderson. From the time of their marriage during the depression years, they spent 40 years farming in Union county and Ringgold county. They reared three children, Anne, Robert and Karen, all of whom they put through col-lege. In the early 1950s, both Wayne and Helen came to saving faith in Jesus Christ. They wor-shiped at the First Baptist Church in Creston for nearly 50 years. Helen was hard working. In the early years, among other farm tasks, she rendered lard and made lye soap, raised chickens, sewed dresses out of feed sacks for herself and her daughters and maintained a vegetable garden. She loved her family and was interested in every-one’s lives and activities. In later years she enjoyed doing needle work, some of which she sold at Aunt Jennie’s Attic in Mount Ayr. Helen is survived by her son, Robert (wife Nancy) Anderson of Tacoma, Washington; daugh-ter, Karen Ensing of Hudsonville, Michigan; grandson, Jonathan (wife Keren) Anderson of Tacoma, Washington; great-grandchildren, Luke and Abigail Anderson of Ta-coma, Washington. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne and daughter, Anne. Her children truly do “rise up and call her blessed.” (Prov. 31:28).

Willie DolecheckWILFRED “WILLIE”

EUGENE DOLECHECK Wilfred (Willie) Eugene Dolecheck was born July 29, 1942 at Leon, Iowa to Leo and Inez (Posler) Dolecheck. He grew up in Diagonal, Iowa graduating from high school there in 1961. For a time he ran movies at the theaters in central Iowa with Robert Gray.

He attended technical school in Des Moines and then went to work as head of the sound system at Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, retiring after over 30 years there as events manager in January 2002. In Nashua, Iowa at the Little Brown Church he married Patricia Patterson on June 16, 1980. They lived in Des Moines and now in Johnston, Iowa. He enjoyed car-ing for his yard and doing a garden each year. Following his retire-ment, he enjoyed going camping, doing craft shows and spending many winters in Donna, Texas with many good friends they met there. For many years he rode the complete route of RAGBRAI. He enjoyed visiting all the Iowa towns along the route and the people he met while riding. He is survived by Patricia, his wife of 32 years; stepson, Tim (Kit) Patterson; seven stepgrand-children; four stepgreat-grandchil-dren, and sister, Carolyn Gardner. He was preceded in death by his parents and stepdaughter, Kim Lynn. Services were conducted at the United Church of Diagonal on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, with Pastor Ed Shields offi ciat-ing. Musical selections included “The Rose,” “Go Rest High On That Mountain” and “Spirit In The Sky.” Casket bearers were Tim Pat-terson, Jon Patterson, Daphne Pat-terson, Carlos Perez, Chad Parker and Daryl Nerness. Honorary pallbearers included Eldon Strange, Gary Gardner, Jeff Gardner, Marion Hansell and Joe Gardner. Willie was laid at rest in the Bo-hemian Cemetery in Diagonal.

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Jesse MinnickJESSE ALAN MINNICK

Jesse Alan Minnick, son of Lel-lan F. and Iva J. (Main) Minnick, was born December 9, 1937 near Delphos, Iowa. Alan grew up at Mount Ayr and graduated from Mount Ayr high school in 1955. On December 18, 1956, in Kellerton, Iowa, he married Carolyn LaVon Keller in a ceremony performed by LaVon’s great-grandfather, John K. White. Alan was a hardworking man, who was intelligent and very me-chanical. Alan provided for his family and was a loving husband, dad and grandpa. He loved ev-erything about cars and loved his cherished Ford Mustangs, even naming a couple of them! Alan was a service manager at multiple John Deere dealerships. He retired from Pella Windows at Shenando-ah making custom windows. He would bring home the scraps of wood and made several cherished cabinets for the boys and their toys. In addition to the cabinets, he made furniture, baby cradles and many other heirlooms made out of wood. He loved wood-working and his creations will be treasured by many. Alan passed away February 4, 2013 at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa. He was pre-ceded in death by his parents, Lee and Iva Minnick; his beloved wife, LaVon Minnick; a son-in-law, Robert Carter, and his siblings, James Minnick, Phyllis Mercer, Ailene Mercer and Jean Reno. Those left to cherish his mem-ory include his children, Vonnie Weuve of Nevada, Iowa, Alan (Debbie) Minnick of Indianapo-lis, Indiana, Philip Minnick of Maywood, Missouri, Teri (Craig) Limkeman of Nevada, Iowa and Becca (Tommy) Seabolt of Warner Robins, Georgia; grandchildren, Laura (Chace) Poppe of Camas, Washington, Caitlin Minnick of Saint Louis, Missouri, Sara (Rob) Sorey of Nevada, Iowa, Cory Limkeman of Nevada, Iowa, Ni-cole (Orson) Lyttle of Mildenhall, England, Jamie Carter of Nevada, Iowa, Jared Carter of Warner Rob-ins, Georgia and Jeremi Seabolt of Warner Robins, Georgia; siblings, Dan (Mindy) Minnick of Mount Ayr, Iowa, Merritt (Lori) Minnick of Fortuna, California and Geneva Scott of Marceline, Missouri; spe-cial friend, Berna Rogers of Wash-ington; nieces; nephews; other relatives, and friends. Services were conducted at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home in Mount Ayr on Thursday, Febru-ary 7, 2013, with Rev. Mike Mad-dy offi ciating.

Musical selections were “Amazing Grace” and “It Is Well With My Soul.” Casket bearers included Philip Minnick, Alan Minnick, Craig Limkeman, Tommy Seabolt, Jamie Carter and Cory Limkeman. Honorary pallbearers were Orson Lyttle, Rob Sorey, Jeremi Seabolt, Jared Carter and Bob Staats. Burial was in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Mount Ayr.

Joyce JohnstonW. JOYCE JOHNSTON

Joyce Johnston was born and raised near Mount Ayr, Iowa on a farm, was a high school cheer-leader and married her high school sweetheart. After marriage Joyce was a stay-at-home mom who enjoyed raising her children and supporting her husband. From Iowa Joyce and Andy settled in Colorado Springs, Colorado where they always remembered taking their children trick-or-treating in the snow. They also lived in Kan-sas City and Belton, Missouri and O’Fallon, Illinois before retiring to San Antonio, Texas. Joyce enjoyed genealogy and amassed a large amount of family history. She also enjoyed quilting, crafts, “messing” with her plants and was an avid reader. Joyce loved the holidays with Easter and Halloween being her favorites. Her love of Halloween is tied to her children’s memories of her enjoying the soap opera, “Dark Shadows.” She enjoyed playing cards and board games especially with her granddaughters. Joyce was a former civil ser-vant who started her federal career working at the Internal Revenue Service in Kansas City. After the IRS Joyce worked for several years at Richards Gebaur Air Force Base (AFB) before following her hus-band to Scott AFB and fi nally Ran-dolph AFB. Joyce is preceded in death by her parents, Glen and Velma

Caldwell of Mount Ayr. Joyce is survived by her de-voted husband, H. Andy Johnston of over 53 years; children, Julie Hobbs (Kent Hobbs) of Littleton Colorado, Michael Johnston of Springfi eld, Virginia and Susan Spence (Scott Spence) of San An-tonio, Texas; three granddaughters, Jessie Spence, currently attending Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and Madison and Kathryn Hobbs of Littleton, Colorado. She was a devoted wife to her husband, a loving mother to her children and a doting grandmother to her three granddaughters. Joyce was known for her quick wit and sarcastic dark sense of humor. A burial and service are planned for early summer in Mount Ayr. The family asks that donations be given in Joyce’s name to Saint La-bre Indian School, P.O. Box 216, Ashland, MT 59003.

Arloa WackernagleARLOA JEAN

WACKERNAGLE Arloa Jean Wackernagle, daugh-ter of Carl and Grace (Motsinger) Wyman, passed away on February 6, 2013 at the age of 88 years. She had been in failing health over the last year at the Clearview Nursing Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Arloa, was born August 16, 1924. Her parents, two brothers and a sister moved from Grant City, Missouri to a farm west of Maloy, Iowa while she was very young. Her parents and brothers drove the school bus, pulled by horses, which left early to pick up other kids and got home late. They had no electricity so they studied by lamp light. As a child, she helped raise chickens, collect eggs, milk cows, rake hay with the horses and lead the hay horses to put hay in the barn. On February 15, 1944, she married Iver Wackernagle. To this union were born S.C. (Jack) Wack-ernagle of Bedford, Iowa and Vicki O’Conner of Altoona, Iowa. She enjoyed her fl owers, gar-dening, playing cards, bowling and mowing her yard. She played cards and board games with her grand-kids. She always had a good meal or snack ready for her visitors or family. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son-in-law, Tom O’Conner; brothers, Billy and Junior Wyman; sister, Virginia Brown; brother-in-law, Kenneth Brown, and sister-in-law, Hope Wyman. Survivors include her children, Jack (Debbie) Wackernagle of Bedford, Iowa and Vicki O’Conner of Altoona, Iowa; grandchildren, Gary (Olivia) Wackernagle, Amy (Tyler) Sheeley, John (Gracie) O’Conner and Melissa Grange; great-grandchildren, Caitlin and Iver Wackernagle, Cassidy (O’Conner) Hernandez, Shelbi O’Conner, Johnny O’Conner, Iver O’Conner, Tanna (Grange) Cor-tes, Taylor Grange, Travis Grange and Tomi O’Conner; great-great-grandchildren, Jaden, Adrian, Li-onna and Tiago, and sister-in-law, Betty Wyman. Services were held at the Christian Church in Clearfi eld on Saturday, February 9, 2013, with Pastor Sherry Wiley offi ciating. Musical selections were “San An-tonio Rose,” “Amazing Grace” and “Holes In The Floor Of Heaven.” Casket bearers included Mark Dalton, George Haidsiak, Randall Nickle, Jerry Brown, Ken DeVoe and Bob Bailey. Burial was in the Clearfi eld Cemetery in Clearfi eld.

A memorial fund has been es-tablished to the HCI Care Services._________________________________ Obituaries continued on page 13

HCI Hospice Care Services (formerly Hospice of Central Iowa) will host an informational coffee for those interested in vol-unteering Wednesday, Feb. 20 from 10-11 a.m. The meeting will be held at the HCI offi ce located on the west side of the Mount Ayr square at 107 S. Fillmore. Current volunteers will be pres-ent to answer questions. Volunteering has been proven to increase enjoyment in life. Of-fering companionship, running errands and assisting with clerical duties and light housekeeping de-scribe some of the opportunities available to make a meaningful, lasting impact in the lives of oth-ers. For more information contact Cindy Mitchell, volunteer coordi-nator, at 641-464-2088 or cmitch-ell@hcicareservices.org. Refreshments and snacks will be available.

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Financial Aid Loan Specialist

Graceland University is seeking a full-time Financial Aid Loan Specialist on the Lamoni, Iowa campus. This position processes all Federal Direct Loans according to federal guidelines and regulations; originates and disburses loans to students according to state and institutional policies; and makes adjustments to loans through federal software.

Successful candidate will be detail-oriented with strong customer service and problem-solving skills, have excellent written and verbal communications skills, good math skills and proficient computer and typing skills. Must maintain timely and accurate loan reports. Previous Financial Aid/Title IV experience preferred. Associates or BA degree in accounting, math or similar field preferred but not required.

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Lamoni, Iowa 50140

~ CLEARVIEW HOME in CLEARFIELD ~is looking for full-time Certified Nurse Aides to join their

team. Part-time and weekend positions are also available.If you enjoy the elderly, are energetic and enjoy working with a

caring team in a family atmosphere, Clearview Home is an excellent choice for you. Clearview offers an excellent starting

wage, shift differential, paid holidays , sick pay and vacation as well as health insurance and 401K.

Please stop by and see Patty Parrish at 202 Jefferson Street, Clearfield or call 641-336-2333 for your appointment today.

CLEARVIEW HOMES202 Jefferson, Clearfield, IA • Ph. 641-336-2333

“Your home away from home”

FOR SALE BY OWNERFOR SALE BY OWNER

104 W. Jefferson Street • Mount Ayr • $115,000Completely remodeled 4-bedroom, 2-bath-room house. Hardwood floors throughout, except kitchen and bathrooms (tile). New roof, new siding, new shed/playhouse, 2-car garage, deck and patio. Motivated sellers.

Ken Harrison • Ph. 641-234-0172

FOR RENT1 Bedroom Apartments

Diagonal HousingThis institution is anEqual Opportunity

Provider and Employer

- Stove and refrigerator furnished.

- Rent is based on income405-411 W. 7th Street(62 years of age or older, handicapped or disabled,

regardless of age)108-116 Broadway Street

(Available to family)

~ Call ~Thomas Management

1-800-600-9946

• CHARLES E. MANUELCHIROPRACTOR

• DR. BRYAN NOWLIN303 S. LindenLamoni, Iowa

OFFICE HOURS• Monday - Thursday

8:15 a.m. - 6 p.m.• Friday

8:15 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Call 641-784-6677

JOB FAIRInterviews being conducted from

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Michael Foods is a diversified food processor and distributor

with businesses in egg products, refrigerated grocery products

and refrigerated potato products. Previous experience in food

manufacturing is not required. We will train people with a

solid work history!For further information

contact Human Resources at (641) 333-4700 or come to the plant (1009 S. Brooks St.) to

apply Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Attn: Human Resources 1009 South Brooks St. • Lenox, IA 50851

Fax (641) 333-4800 • Phone (641) 333-4700EOE/AAP

yadseuMichael Foods, Inc. in Lenox, Iowa,

has immediate opportunities for employment on 1st and 2nd shift

Tuesday, February 5WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20Interviews being conducted from

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.Michael Foods, Inc. in Lenox, Iowa,

has immediate opportunities foremployment on 1st, 2nd and 3rd shifts.

Michael Foods is a diversifiedfood processor and distributor with

businesses in egg products, refrigeratedgrocery products and refrigerated

potato products. Previous experiencein food manufacturing is not required.

We will train peoplewith a solid work history!

Announcing recentplant-wide pay rate increases!

For further information, contactHuman Resources at 641-333-4700

or come to the plant(1009 S. Brooks Street)

to apply Monday through Friday,7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Rules for acceptance and participation in the clinics are the same for everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, handicap, creed, religion or political affiliation.

CONSULTANT SCHEDULECONSULTANT SCHEDULE

504 N. Cleveland Street, Mount Ayrwww.rchmtayr.org

◆ General Surgery ◆ Laparoscopic Surgery◆ Orthopedic Surgery ◆ ENT Surgery

◆ Ophthalmology Surgery

Do your hips and knees ache by the end of the day? Is it progressively getting worse or keeping you from the fun you used to have? Get ahead of the pain before it gets ahead of you. See your family doctor today or call 641-464-4409 to schedule a consult with our orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Homedan, to learn about your options. Don’t lose one more day to aches and pains.

Outpatient Clinic Department - Phone 641-464-4409

CARDIOLOGY CLINICDepartment of Ringgold County Hospital

Eric Martin, M.D.Wednesday, February 27

Jean Schmitt, A.R.N.P.Wednesday, February 27

ORTHOPEDIC CLINICShehada Homedan, M.D.

Tuesday, February 19Tuesday, February 26

AUDIOLOGY CLINICKent Weaver, Au.D.

Thursday, February 28For an appointment, please call1-800-233-4327

SKIN CARE CLINICAnne Nelson, PA-C

Wednesday, February 20

NEPHROLOGY CLINICSiva Jagarlapudi, M.D.

Friday, February 15Hermien Creger, A.R.N.P.

Wednesday, February 27

EAR, NOSE & THROAT CLINICPhillip Linquist, D.O.

Wednesday, February 20

SURGERY CLINICDane Johnson, D.O.

Thurs., Feb. 14; Mon., Feb. 18Thurs., Feb. 21; Mon., Feb. 25Thurs., Feb. 28

200 West South Street • Mount Ayr, Iowa 50854Ph. 641-464-2080 • Fax 641-464-2081

sciowarealty@iowatelecom.netwww.sciowarealty.com

Wanda Hosfield Broker-Owner

Cell: 641-344-4802SALES ASSOCIATES: Ron Landphair-Cell 641-234-0056 ;

Sherri L. Adams-Cell 641-442-5289 ; Darin Dolecheck-Cell 641-234-0220; Norma Sickels-Cell 641-344-5407; Cass Hosfield-Cell 641-344-8583

FOR RENT1 Bedroom

Apartments in Tingley for elderly or

disabled are available now at

Tingley Housing Corp.

- Must be 62 or older.- Stove and refrigerator furnished.

- Maximum income limit has changed.~ Call ~

Nancy FordPh.641-772-4295

NOTICECity of Mount Ayris looking for bids for the

Judge Lewis Park maintenance contractBids need to be turned into the city by Monday, February 18,

2013, at 5 p.m.Duties require neatly trimming and mowing, no less than

biweekly, park grass within park boundaries, trimming of all trees and shrubs, furnishing appropriate labor and machinery to perform duties, inspecting park, etc.

Bidder must supply certificate of liability insurance.For more complete bid requirements, contact

City Hall at 641-464-2402.

NOTICECity of Mount Ayris looking for bids for a

recreation director for Judge Lewis ParkBids need to be turned into the city by Monday, February 18,

2013, at 5 p.m.Duties include preparing playing fields (east, west and Terry

Howie fields), mowing and trimming ball fields, arranging Little League registration, meeting with coaches to review League rules, hosting a girls’ and boys’ tournament, arringing for home-game umpires and scheduling slow pitch tournaments, etc.

Bidder must supply certificate of liability insurance.For more complete bid requirements, contact

City Hall at 641-464-2402.

Full Time Custom Applicators

Seasonal Labor / Truck DriversOperate pick-up truck, straight truck or semi;

Assist in warehouseAgriland FS

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Moark LLC/Sunbest FoodsMoark LLC/Sunbest Foodsis NOW HIRING!is NOW HIRING!

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that are available to you after 90 days.Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flex plan, 401k

after 6 months plus many other benefit options.

Please contact the office at 641-336-2292or visit office location in Clearfield, Iowa

for more information on current job openings.Moark LLC/Sunbest Foods1641 Yellowstone Avenue

Clearfield, Iowa 50840Ph. 641-336-2292

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BUSINESS SERVICESMcNEILL’S TREE SERVICE, Afton. Tree trimming, topping and removal. David, 641-344-9052. 49-4t______________________________ADKISSON SAWMILL. Portable sawmill service. Your place or mine. Serving the area since 1989. Call Gerald Adkisson, 712-537-2433. 3-tf______________________________PRINTING -- Business cards, envelopes, letterheads, statements, business forms, circulars. Competitive prices. MOUNT AYR RECORD-NEWS, 641-464-2440. 12-tfp______________________________

FARM ITEMSFOR SALE: Porta Huts, A Frames, other hog equipment. Call 641-234-0072. 50-3tp_____________________________

FOR SALEFOR SALE: 22’ X 60’ double wide trailer house. Call 641-234-0072. 50-3tp_____________________________FOR SALE: Wood pellet heating stove - like new. Call 641-234-0072. 50-3tp_____________________________

HAPPY ADSHAPPINESS IS . . . being a part of the Daffodil Days sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Ringgold County Unit. Order your daffodils now. 51-1tp_____________________________

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meetings every Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr. 47-tfp______________________________NEED COPIES? Copies up to 11 x 17 inches are available in black ink on white or colored paper. Reduction and enlargement also available. MOUNT AYR RECORD-NEWS. 12-tfp_____________________________AIRLINES ARE HIRING- Train for hands on Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualifi ed- Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Mainte-nance 866-783-0458. (INCN)_____________________________

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WANTEDWANTED: Someone to tear down 30’ X 80’ building. All native lumber and lots of steel. Call 641-234-0072. 50-3tp_____________________________

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Guest speaker at Wishard Cha-pel Sunday was Benson Hainline, who shared his testimony and led the service in Pastor Bill’s ab-sence. Praise team was Cindy Ste-phens, Ruth Gregg, Makayla O’Malia, Carol Anne McCreary and Barbie Belzer. The Sunday school enjoyed a valentine brunch followed by val-entines for the kids. The WOW ladies packed val-entine bags for shut-ins and others helped with delivery. Jim and Carol Anne McCreary delivered a bag to Charlie and

Helen Long. They are doing pretty well this winter and Helen is fi -nally able to walk after her broken ankle and the long hospital stays of last summer. Jim Pollock called to say that his daughter, Misty, had colon surgery this week. Cards can be sent to her at this address: Misty Horstmeyer, 5066 Sumter Drive, Bismarck, ND 58503. Bible studies are being held weekly at Wishard Chapel on Sun-day. The nine to 12-year-olds meet from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The moth-ers also meet at this time. Supper is served at 5:30 p.m. and then the teens come in at 6 p.m. to eat and start their study from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. There has been a great response with 12 children and 10 teens attending. The adult Bible study meets on Wednesday evenings. All classes are studying the book, “The Strang-er on the Road to Emmaus.”

Wishard Chapel

Carol McCreary • 464-3178

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Save your favorite valentines and put them backfor future craft projects. HELP WANTED- MANAGERIAL

MOTEL GENERAL MANAGER:Belva Deer Inn, LLC is seeking a manager/co-manager for a four year old 26 room, non-franchised motel in Sigourney, Iowa. Duties include: hiring, training and supervising staff; overseeing maintenance, housekeeping, front desk duties, daily operations; develop budget for motel; purchasing supplies, and services; marketing and public relations; other duties as assigned. Computer skills are required. Previous hotel/motel/hospitality experience or manager experience a definite plus. Housing opportunity available. Pay and benefits negotiable. Must be US citizen. Submit re-sume and letter of interest to: Belva Deer Inn, LLC, P.O. Box 44, Sigour-ney, IA 52591, or email to emily@hidollar.com

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Clarinda Livestock Auction, LLC

SPECIAL CATTLE SALES• Bred Cow and Heifer Sale – Thursday, February 14• All Class Cattle Sale – Thursday, February 21

• Starting promptly at 11 a.m. on weigh cows and bulls; noon on feeder cattle.

• All native cattle guaranteed fresh from the farm.CLARINDA LIVESTOCK AUCTION, LLC

1208 E. Garfield • Clarinda, IowaOwner: Dan Wood • Ph. 712-542-8863

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Private Treaty Sale

Sale to be held at Werner Feed Efficiency Testing Center 1954 180th St. Diagonal, IA 50845

Bulls available for viewing at 9 am Bidding starts at 11:00 am

Lunch to follow

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February 23, 2013

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25 Yrlg & 7 18-Mo-Old Bulls

On the ASA Performance Advocate list every year!

Call to view bulls prior to sale

Performance tested including feed efficiency and ultrasound data

Licensed and Insured

Commercial and Residential

641-782-7852 211 S. Elm St.Creston

SpecializinginBATHROOMREMODELS

• Free Estimates• Duct Cleaning• High Efficiency Furnaces and Air Conditioning Units• Geothermal Installation and Maintenance• Radiant Floor Heating Installation and Maintenance• Complete Plumbing Installation and Service

OWNERS: Randy and Sandy GibsonOffice 641-784-3323

Cell 641-442-5501FAX 641-784-4298

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SALES EVERY THURSDAY:Next Sales February 14 and 21

Sales start at 9:30 a.m.

CLIP and SAVEMADISON COUNTY AUCTION

Winterset, IowaRegular Livestock Sale

Every Tuesday Featuring:◆ Sheep ◆ Goats ◆ Hogs ◆ Cattle

ALL SALES START AT 12:30 P.M.Tom and DeAnn Christensen

Barn 515-462-2838Tom’s Cell 515-729-2711 • Home 515-462-1468

Barn: Ph. 712-779-3636Visit: www.massenalivestock.com for more information

Allen VenteicherOwner/Operator

Ph. 712-779-0168/779-2082

Mark VenteicherOwner/AuctioneerPh. 712-779-0169

MASSENA LIVESTOCK SALESPh. 712-779-3636

◆ Sale Every Wednesday at 1 p.m. ◆ In your area weeklyCall for an on-the-farm appraisal

No Sale – Wednesday, February 20due to Steele Land and Livestock Bull Sale –

Friday, February 22

205 North Boundary Street, Grant City, MO 64456Ph. 660-254-3592

Located in the heart of Chinatown

Tammy Ueligger, OwnerCall me for your Special Order Ag Parts!

SCRAP PRICES ARE UP!Cars ...................................................................$180.00 per tonShred .................................................................$170.00 per tonFarm Equipment ...............................................$170.00 per ton#1 Steel ..............................................................$180.00 per ton#2 Steel ..............................................................$170.00 per ton#1 Cast Iron .......................................................$190.00 per ton#2 Cast Iron .......................................................$170.00 per tonUnprepared Steel ..............................................$160.00 per tonWoven and Barbed Wire ..................................$120.00 per ton

This is a partial listing. Call for more prices.We also buy catalytic converters.

We will not accept whole appliances, steel cable, glass, plastic, wood or cardboard.Prices subject to change without notice.

P&L RECYCLING2261 Church Street • Weldon, Iowa

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Obituaries Public Notices

Elno HoffmanELNO HOFFMAN

Elno Hoffman, 82, of Cedar Falls died Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at Sartori Memorial Hos-pital in Cedar Falls. He was born January 16, 1930 in Elkport, Iowa, the son of Elno Carl and Goldie (Amling) Hoffman. Elno married Carolyn Sue Kramer on April 12, 1997 in Cedar Falls. He worked at Waterloo Mills, Young Plumbing & Heating Company and Miller’s DX Gas Station. Elno also worked in maintenance for senior hous-ing in Waterloo and worked for Economy Plumbing Supply Co. in Glendale, Arizona. He was a mem-ber of Ascension Lutheran Church in Waterloo and enjoyed garden-ing, traveling and cowboy movies. Survivors include his wife, Sue Hoffman of Cedar Falls, Iowa; three sons, Jack (Janice) Hoffman of Evansdale, Iowa, Steve Hoff-man of Waterloo, Iowa and Brad (Bethann Bibler) Hoffman of Cedar Falls, Iowa; two daughters, Sheila (Bob) Bagg and Tammy Hoffman, both of Waterloo, Iowa; a stepson, Tom (Mary Ann) Kramer of Sha-wano, Wisconsin; a stepdaughter, Teri (Lynn) Trask of Cedar Falls, Iowa; 22 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren, and a sister, Joann (Terry) Price of Stanley, Iowa. Elno was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Violet O’Brien; a brother, George Hoffman, and a stepson, Todd Kramer.

Obituaries

Vernice ShieldsVERNICE MAE BANNER

SHIELDS Vernice Mae Banner Shields was born October 31, 1918 to Del-no and Lola Banner on the family farm near Ellston, Iowa and died February 5, 2013 at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr, Iowa. She was united in marriage to Victor Shields March 5, 1938 in Mount Ayr. To this union were born three children, Mary Lou Goetz of Nor-walk, Gary (DeAnn) of Marion and Jerry (Norma) of Mount Ayr. Vic and Vernice farmed for most of their 69 married years on a farm near Caledonia where she enjoyed raising her garden, fl owers and chickens. Vernice was a quiet lady who could usually be counted on for a single word or sentence of wit. Vernice was preceded in death by her husband, Victor; parents; brothers; son-in-law, Benny Goetz, and grandson, Craig Shields. Left to cherish her memory in addition to her children are fi ve grandchildren, Scott (Cindy) Go-etz of Liberty Center, Karla (Mike) Stanley of Winterset, Jenny (Rob) O’Brien of Paola, Kansas, Jody (Larry) Lipcamon of Iowa City and Todd (Alisa) Shields of North Liberty, and six great-grandchil-dren Kyle and Clint Stanley, Callie and Cavan O’Brien and Zachary and Ethan Shields. Services were conducted at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home in Mount Ayr on Friday, February 8, 2013, with Pastor Bart Shields and Pastor Ed Shields offi ciating. Musicians were Nancy Sackett, Jodie Wurster and Grace Warin. Casket bearers included Scott Goetz, Todd Shields, Mike Stan-ley, Rob O’Brien, Josh Shields and Larry Lipcamon. Burial was in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Mount Ayr.

Ringgold County Supervisors Proceedings

sor air fi lters/10 elevator light bulbs, $136.50.

Lynch, Tara A., mileage, $11.63.Lynn’s Sinclair, snow blower gas,

$16.79.Mail Services, treasurer postage/

print, $142.43.McDonnell, Robin, January mile-

age/cell phone, $136.24.Metal Culverts, pipe, $12,960.00.Meyer Laboratory, Inc., jail

cleaning supplies, $76.00.Miller, Cindy K., attorney trials/

miscellaneous, $90.50.Miller, Jamie, extra posse calen-

dars, $56.66.Morgan, Neil E., assessor mile-

age/phone/supplies, $91.90.Mount Ayr Farm & Home, Inc.,

parts, $15.15.Mount Ayr Post Offi ce, postage/

public health postage, $212.00.Mount Ayr Record-News, RCSS

subscription/treasurer semi-annual report/advertisements/time cards/assessor publication notice/auditor offi ce supplies/supervisors publica-tions, $1,558.37.

MTE Offi ce Center, offi ce items/ attorney offi ce equipment service auditor / sheriff offi ce / courthouse custodian supplies, $1,163.81.

Myers, Gary, January 2013 chore service, $175.00.

Norris, Sharla, January mileage/cell phone, $382.56.

Northern Safety & Industrial, safety coats, $996.70.

Offi ce Machines Co., RCSS of-fi ce supplies, $85.49.

Overholser, Jessica, January mileage/cell phone, $58.82.

Pettinger, Karen L., January mile-age/cell phone, $387.36.

Pottawattamie County EMA, meal - region meeting Red Oak/ad-min., $275.00.

Reynolds, Angela, January mile-age/cell phone, $115.32.

Ringgold County EMS Associa-tion, safety training, $450.00.

RK Fuels, Inc., fuel/gas, $36,059.42.

Rockmount Research & Alloys, Inc., welding supplies, $157.66.

Schaefer Mfg. Co., oil,

$1,232.58.Schildberg Construction, rock,

$38,529.45.Shirley & Dave’s Computers,

E-911 computer repair/public health BT supplies, $789.55.

Shopko, offi ce items, $51.98.Sickels, Vicki, January mileage/

cell phone, $92.15.SimplexGrinnell, RCSS safety

supplies, $265.36.SimplexGrinnell LP, sheriff fi re

extinguisher inspection, $69.00.Smith, Gary, general relief/

veterans affairs contracted hours/DSM legislative day for veterans, $597.88.

Snap On Tools Corp., tools, $159.00.

Sobotka, Michael, cell phone, $50.00.

Southern Iowa Rural Water Asso-ciation, Redding shed, $19.00.

Southwest Builder Supply, mis-cellaneous shop/ custodian supplies/RCSS stapler, $91.35.

Southwest Iowa Rural Electric, utility, $172.00.

Splash-N-Dash, sheriff car wash, $22.00.

Subway, 30 training meals - cert. team, $60.00.

Sunset Law Enforcement, ammu-nition, $5,244.35.

Transit Works, miscellaneous supplies, $107.91.

US Bank, fuel, $70.02.Visionworks, Inc., public health

case management monthly hosting fee, $500.00.

Walmart Community / GECRB, RCSS recreation/offi ce/jail supplies, $254.29.

Walter, Merle, 911 confer-ence fee/E-911 Internet/cell phone, $145.50.

Weeda’s Welding, parts, $64.00.Wex Bank, fuel, $3,731.22.White, Landon, cell phone,

$50.00.Windstream, attorney telephone/

Internet/E-911 records management/RCSS phone/treasurer telephone/fax/courthouse data processing, $894.69.

Windstream Communications, 911 trunking, $509.70.

Windstream Communications, Inc., public health phone mainte-nance, $137.43.

Ziegler, parts, $5,152.15. Fund total = $208,949.59

FUNDS TOTAL RECAPGeneral Basic ................ $42,277.23General Supplemental..... 36,971.99Secondary Road .............119,728.97

Case Management ............. 1,336.83Jail Sales Tax Account ...... 3,499.97Emergency Management ..... 343.25RC Sheriff’s Reserves ...... 3,286.13RC K-9 Unit .........................138.08E-911 Surcharge................ 1,184.48Sheriff’s Commissary ............ 58.20Assessor ............................... 124.46

Total = $208,949.59 Sheriff Mike Sobotka and deputy sheriff Rob Haley met with the board to discuss their proposed FY2014 budget. They also discussed increas-ing their inmate jail fees as their meal costs have increased. The Ringgold County Hospital is unable to provide jail meals; therefore, after accepting bids, Clearview Nursing Home has taken this responsibility. Mike is proposing increasing the inmate fee from $35 to $40 per day and $50 per day to inmates who do not serve their time consecutively. Dave Beck, executive director for the Southern Iowa Resource Conservation & Development (RC & D) Area met with the board to review the status of the organization he represents as well as the Ringgold County RC & D. Also present for the meeting were Ethel Campbell, Mount Ayr city mayor Don Solliday and county conservation director Kate Zimmerman. Dave discussed the few projects the RC &D are involved in and requested fi nancial support from the board if able. With a seven-county area being served by the organization, it would be benefi cial for each county to contribute $3,500. It was decided that supervisor Kraig Pennington will serve on the RC & D board. The board appointed Kate Zimmerman to also serve on the board. The board will recommend to the Ringgold County Soil & Water Conservation board to co-appoint Don Solliday.

RESOLUTION RC13–40

WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors hereby resolves to increase the inmate jail fees to $40 per day. In addition, inmates who are sentenced on Ringgold county charges to multiple days and do not serve them consecutively shall be charged $50 per day. The fee for the isolation cell shall remain in the amount of $175 per day. The board hereby determines that these fees are reasonable in consideration of the expense incurred by the county to house said prisoners. 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 February 4, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–41 WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors hereby approves to appoint Kate Zimmerman to the Ringgold County Resource Conserva-tion & Development Committee. 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 February 4, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–42 WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors hereby recom-mends to the Ringgold County Soil & Water Conservation Board to co-appoint Don Solliday to the Ringgold County Resource Conservation & Development Committee. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Royce Dredge and seconded by Kraig Pennington stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None.

ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved February 4, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–43 WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors hereby approves to appoint Kraig Pennington to the Ringgold County Resource Conserva-tion & Development Committee. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Royce Dredge and seconded by David Inloes stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved February 4, 2013. There was no further business. A motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge to adjourn the meeting at 5:41 p.m. DAVID INLOES ChairmanATTEST: AMANDA WASKE Ringgold County Auditor

––––––––––––––––February 5, 2013 The Ringgold County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Tuesday, February 5, 2013. The meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. with the following members present: David Inloes, Royce Dredge and Kraig Pennington. A motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge to approve the agenda. AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. A motion was made by Royce Dredge and seconded by Kraig Pennington to approve the previous minutes. AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. The board was in session all day for budget workshop. They met with

various department heads discussing their request for fi scal year 2014. Royce Dredge excused himself from 12 to 2:50 p.m. to attend a Southern Iowa Council of Govern-ments meeting. Zach Gunsolley, county engineer, was unable to attend the board meeting due to illness.

RESOLUTION RC13–44 WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors hereby approves the Kellerton 28E Agreement between Ringgold county and the City of Kel-lerton. 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 February 5, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–45 WHEREAS, the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors hereby approves to table agenda item Approve Culvert Lining Quotes until the board can meet with Zach Gunsolley next week. 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 February 5, 2013. There was no further business. A motion was made by Royce Dredge and seconded by Kraig Pennington to adjourn the meeting at 4:53 p.m. DAVID INLOES ChairmanATTEST: AMANDA WASKE Ringgold County Auditor

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