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Record NewsRecord NewsSnapshots of Ringgold County

Past its prime, still beautiful

As part of our commemoration of the Record-News’ 150th

year of publishing, each week we will feature a photo of life

in Ringgold County.

“Snapshots of Ringgold

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

This photo shows the unique architecture of early barns

in the county. This particular barn is found on County Road

P64 south of Ellston.

This is the fourth of the photos in our commemorative series.

The Ringgold county board of supervisors approved an 18-month tax abatement for the Mount Ayr American Legion, approved fuel contracts and agreed to move up a road project in action during the past week.Legion tax issue Greg Sharp and Lyle Hogue, representing the Mount Ayr Amer-ican Legion, met with the board to question why the Legion post continues to pay property tax when it is a non-profi t organization, ac-cording to the IRS. County assessor Neil Mor-gan stated the organization is half profi t/half exempt. Morgan said the Legion could be 75 percent ex-empt if they have documentation to demonstrate this. Sharp asked whether tax pay-ments due this month as well as September 2013 and March 2014 are set in stone. It was noted the supervisors can intervene only if a business or organization can show an inability/hardship to pay the taxes owed. At that point the su-pervisors can abate or suspend the tax bill.

Board hears plea from Legion for tax exemptionAgrees to 18-month abatement

To support the Legion’s case for a hardship exemption, Sharp reported utilities for the Legion building run $1,000 every month.The post also pays $1,000 per year for insurance and $1,200 per year for a liquor permit along with $3,500 quarterly to the Depart-ment of Revenue. Sharp said the American Legion receives $150 per month from Area 14 Agency on Aging for the meal site, but the revenue received does not cover expenses. Sharp noted that this is the Legion’s contribution to the community. Sharp added that all money from bar sales goes to charity, and the Legion has no paid employees. In addition, Sharp noted the Legion purchases everything locally, and all money raised is put back into the community. Sharp ended by stating taxes are too much money for the Legion to pay as they are already struggling because the in-come does not keep the organiza-tion going. The board agreed to abate the taxes for the American Legion for payments made in March 2013, September 2013 and March 2014. Assessor Morgan mentioned the deadline for the American Legion to request a change in assessment is April 15. He also asked if the board’s intention is to make the Legion tax exempt. The supervi-sors agreed that is what should be

done. The fi nal decision, however, is made by the assessor’s offi ce.Road projects Engineer Zach Gunsolley met with the board to review second-ary roads updates. He reviewed the fi nal draft of the fi ve-year program for his department. This is a program report that has to be submitted to the DOT on a yearly basis. Projects are not set in stone and can be changed throughout the year if needed. Gunsolley discussed the J45 project between Ringgold county and Decatur county. At a recent meeting the supervisors approved moving resurfacing of J45 to fi scal year 2015 from 2017 to coincide with Decatur county’s work on their portion of the roadway. Com-bining the projects should help lower construction costs. Gun-solley also recommended to the board that Decatur county survey the Ringgold county portion of J45 since they have already had their portion surveyed. Decatur county will be the lead county on this project.

Fuel bids The supervisors approved a bid from R and K Fuels of Diagonal to furnish fuel for the county for the coming year. The winning bid was for $289,135.65. The board received a second bid from MFA Oil of Mount Ayr for $290,048.15.

Breakfast with the Master, Ring-gold county’s traditional Ringgold Ministerial Association-sponsored series of breakfasts and worships to prepare for Easter, will contin-ue this week at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr through Sat-urday, March 30. Breakfasts begin each morning at 6:30 a.m. followed by a short worship. Many of the churches in the county are taking part in one way or the other in the breakfasts this year. A freewill offering is taken for the breakfasts, with money over and above the cost of the break-fasts going to help with needs of area residents during the year. Theme for the breakfasts this

year is “It Is Finished.” Each morning there will be a breakfast followed by music and a short message. Remaining schedule includes: Thursday, March 28 -- Theme: Separation between God and Man. The United Baptist-Presbyterian Church will host the breakfast of egg casseroles provided by several of the churches. Mike Maddy will be the speaker and the church will provide greeters, special music and the cleanup and set up crew. Friday, March 29 -- Theme: The Plan of Salvation. The United Church of Diagonal will be the hosts for the breakfast featuring donuts and fruit cups. Ed Shields will be the speaker. The church

will provide the greeters and spe-cial music and join with the Com-munity of Christ in providing the clean up crew. Saturday, March 30 - Theme: Death is Defeated. The First Chris-tian Church will host the cooks’ choice breakfast in the fi nal day of the event. Chris Conklin will be the speaker and the church will be providing greeters and special mu-sic and join with the Free Method-ist Church in providing the clean up crew. Alan Smith will be master of ceremonies for the week and Vir-ginia Scott is coordinating the food for the event.

Breakfast with the Master to meet three times this week

Swans make stopover in countyA group of swans made a stop in Ringgold County last week on a farm pond southeast of Mount Ayr. Believed to be Tundra swans, they are headed for their nesting areas which can reach as far west as the Arctic tundra

in Alaska. They winter on the Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of the United States.

Fair, Ringgold Development gain awardsEach year the Monsanto corporation provides $2,500 awards to rural counties in their service area. This year the company doubled the awards in those counties designated federal disaster areas. Residents in each county are encouraged to apply for the awards, and if the award is granted, the applicant may designate a community organization to be the recipient of the donation. For the second year in a row, Craig and Ellen Elliott have won the Monsanto awards and this year have chosen the Ringgold County Fair and the Ringgold County Develop-ment Corporation as recipients of the funds. Shown (L-R) county fair president Keith Miller, Ellen Elliott, Craig Elliott, Bob Sloss, representing Kruger Seeds, a division of Monsanto, and development president Dick Elliott.

Easter egg hunts, free movie setSaturday Kids will have plenty of chances to stock up on candy and prizes Saturday as three Easter egg hunts have been scheduled around the county.Mount Ayr The Mount Ayr Easter egg hunt will be held Saturday, March 30 at 10 a.m. on the Ringgold County Courthouse lawn. The hunt will be divided into four age groups: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8. Plus there will be drawings and eggs for every-one. Children should meet at the shelter house on the courthouse lawn. CGI Foods and the SOS Committee are sponsors of this year’s event.Free movie Following the hunt at 11 a.m., cartoons and the movie “Hop” will be shown free of charge at the Princess Theater. Sponsor of this event is Lawhead Dental in Mount Ayr.Kellerton A breakfast and Easter egg hunt are scheduled at the Kel-lerton community center. The breakfast will run 9-11 a.m. with the Easter egg hunt set to begin at 10 a.m. The hunt is open to kids aged two-11.Tingley An Easter egg hunt will be held Saturday at Tingley, be-ginning at 2 p.m. The hunt is open to all chil-dren through fourth grade. Participants should meet at the grocery store. Included in the hunt are sev-eral marked dollar and quarter eggs. The hunt is sponsored by the Tingley Lions Club.High tech egg hunt Ringgold County Conserva-tion will host an unusual Easter egg hunt Saturday, April 6 be-ginning at 9 a.m. Participants will use global positioning (GPS) devices to fi nd eggs at the Kellerton Bird Conservation viewing area. More details are available in an article on page 8 in this week’s Record-News.

At a recent Mount Ayr school board meeting, Valle Smith pre-sented the 2011-2012 Annual Re-port to the Public that documents student academic achievement for the 2011-12 school year, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The report documents a wide range of performance data as well as demographic statistics for the Mount Ayr district. Most of the statistics measure student profi ciency in various

School board hears annual report on academic achievementsubjects as ranked on a percen-tile basis. According to the report, “profi ciency” in Iowa translates to reaching the 41st percentile on the Iowa Assessments (formerly known as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Iowa Test of Edu-cational Development). The term “percentile” is defi ned as the per-centage of a student’s peer group (grade level) that a student’s score surpassed. In other words, a fourth grade student in Iowa who is con-

sidered “profi cient” in reading will test at a level better than at least 40 percent of other fourth-grade stu-dents across the nation as a whole. One set of statistics compared grade-level profi ciency across the past fi ve years of data. In other words, rather than following a group of third graders through fourth grade, fi fth grade, sixth grade, etc., this data targets fi ve different groups of third graders (and other grades) over fi ve years.

Obviously, each different group of students brings its own unique talents and challenges, so profi -ciency numbers can vary widely from year to year. Yet an average of numbers over a period of years can show trends and help grade-level educators target specifi c skill sets for improvement. In addition, Smith pointed out the 2011-2012 profi ciency levels could be signifi cantly different as compared to the past four years

because of a total revision of the tests. The following numbers will provide the previous four-year av-erage with the 2011-2012 results. 4-year 2011-12 averageReading Grade 3 82.25 88 Grade 4 91.75 69 Grade 5 84.75 65 Grade 6 73.00 70 Grade 7 67.50 66 Grade 8 67.75 64 Grade 11 83.00 95Math

Grade 3 85.50 86 Grade 4 93.25 90 Grade 5 88.00 78 Grade 6 86.75 81 Grade 7 77.25 92 Grade 8 79.25 77 Grade 11 80.50 88Science Grade 3 88.25 92 Grade 4 93.00 88 Grade 5 86.25 82 Grade 6 88.50 91 Grade 7 80.00 84

Medicaid expansion, education reform and a fuel tax increase for the main topics of discussion at the recent legislative coffee in Mount Ayr on Saturday.Ernst opening remarks State senator Joni Ernst opened the discussion by describing ac-tion in the Senate over the past few weeks. She admitted the Sen-ate had not accomplished much of consequence in that time because of the illness and absence of one Democrat senator. In her opinion, the Democrat leadership in the Senate hadn’t been eager to bring any controversial bills to the fl oor for fear of not having enough votes to pass them. Now that the sena-tor has returned, Ernst predicted a busy end to the legislative session. Ernst said the Senate was be-hind on education reform legisla-tion because Senate leadership had decided to write their own bill rather than use the House-passed bill as a starting point for reform discussion. She said the resulting 70-page bill will likely be passed out of the Senate with only a day and a half of discussion in the education subcommittee. She said many senators were still unsure about costs associated with the bill as well as other details. She felt the Senate bill would maintain the $35,000 per year starting teacher salary as recom-mended by Governor Branstad, a

Area legislators discuss issues with local residentsMedicaid, fuel tax, education are topics

number of different pathways to develop teacher leadership, provi-sions for online learning opportu-nities for students and the $4,000 per year Iowa Tuition Grant for Iowa graduates who stay in Iowa to teach. She also predicted the Senate would recommend a four percent allowable growth in state aid to schools as compared with the two percent in the House ver-sion. Medicaid expansion was also up for debate in the Senate, but Ernst said not much discussion had taken place so far.Dolecheck opening remarks State representative Cecil Dolecheck opened his remarks by restating the principles that House Republicans have put forth in this legislative session: 1) we’re not going to spend more than the state takes in, 2) we’re not going to use overpayment from taxpayers to pay for ongoing expenditures and 3) we’re not going to underfund property tax credits. The budget process in the House is moving along well, according to Dolecheck. The nonpartisan trans-portation bill passed unanimously out of the House. The education appropriations budget included a couple changes from the gover-nor’s original proposal. The House budget cuts $1 million from the Iowa Tuition Grant because, ac-cording to Dolecheck, based upon the number of applicants for the program, only $1 million will be needed this year to fully fund the program. The House also decided not to fund the $5 million tuition set-aside program for state univer-sities. The tuition set-aside pro-

gram uses a percentage of each student’s college tuition to help fund grants and scholarships to un-derprivileged students. The House also modifi ed two other provisions from the gover-nor’s education reform recom-mendations. The House version provides for an additional certifi -cation on a high school graduate’s transcript showing workforce or college readiness. The House also lowered the target salary for start-ing teachers to $32,000 per year because the original $35,000 target would create burdens for a number of school districts. Dolecheck said two nonpartisan bills dealing with gun ownership easily passed the House. One bill protects the privacy of gun owners by not allowing access by the me-dia or other outside entities to lists of people with gun permits. The other bill makes it illegal for one person to purchase a weapon and then transfer it to anyone who is barred from gun ownership, such as a convicted felon. Another bill requested from the Department of Human Services (DHS) was passed with bipartisan support. This bill allows state of-fi cials the ability to recover funds from the overpayment of Medic-aid claims. In addition, it requires recipients of Medicaid funds to report any overpayment. Current Iowa law does not allow for such recovery of Medicaid fraud and abuse.Medicaid expansion After opening remarks, the fl oor was opened for questions ____________________________ Continued on page 3

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Fifty Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, March 21, 1963.) The Grand Valley chapter of Future Farmers of America was complimented at a dinner served Wednesday night of last week in the Kellerton gymnasium in recognition of having been the Iowa high chal-lenger last year with 191.46 bushels per acre in a test plot contest, spon-sored by the Funk Bros. Seed Co., host for the occasion. The courtesy honored Harold Foland and mem-bers of the chapter for the record set in a new adventure in corn rais-ing, Funk’s G-Hybrid “304 Bushel Challenge,” part of a nationwide project to challenge Future Farmers of America to greater achievement in growing America’s foremost crop -- corn. Through the efforts of the entire chapter membership, the 91.46 bushels of corn were produced on a one-acre plot on land owned by Dalton McCutchan, eight miles north of Grand River, and farmed in partnership with Roy Foland, father of Harold Foland. Members of the Grand Valley Chapter, Future Farmers of America, Iowa high challenger were James Ethington, reporter; Monte Baker, secretary; Evert Hunsicker, advisor; Harold Foland; Conrad Woodard, president; Monte Akers, parliamentarian, and Jerry Howes, sentinel. Mr. and Mrs. Donald (Jake) Dailey went last evening to Des Moines, from where they left this (Thursday) morning at 7 a.m. for Mexico. The Daileys won the one-week, expense-paid trip to Mexico in a drawing held during a meeting of the Life Investors Insurance Company of Iowa last November in Cedar Rapids. Earl Merritt and Bert Grose, win-ners of the 1962 Iowa Master Corn Growers Contest, were honored guests at the last regular meeting

of the Kellerton Lions Club. Other guests were Mrs. Grose and Maude Merritt. Mr. Merritt was awarded a bronze medal and a certifi cate for having produce 131.62 bushels per acre, and Mr. Grose, with a produc-tion record of 112.29 bushels per acre, received a bronze medal.

Jerry Waugh, outstanding mem-ber of the Mount Ayr Raiders basketball team and the highest scorer in the history of the school, has been named scoring champion of the Tall Corn Conference. In 10 conference games played this year, Waugh scored 291 points, for a game average of 29.1. The Ringgold Mutual Insurance Association is joining in the spon-sorship of the telecast of the Iowa boys state high school basketball tournament on March 22-23. Nancy Blunck, outstanding guard of the Raiderettes basketball team, has been named to two all-state teams and an All-Southwest Iowa team. Miss Blunck was selected on the Omaha World’s fi rst All-Southwest Iowa team; to the second all-state team of the Iowa Daily Press Association, and as a member of the Des Moines Register’s third all-state team. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blunck of Benton, Nancy is a junior in the Mount Ayr Community high school. Births reported this week at Ringgold County Hospital were a son, born March 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Galen Fletchall of Sheridan, MO; a son, born March 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Walling of Hatfi eld, MO; a son, born March 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Lyndall Hill of Grant City, MO, and a son, born March 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Young of Mount Ayr. The obituary this week was Homer Arlington Foster.

Twenty-fi ve Years Ago

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, March 31, 1988.)

Sixty river otters, the latest contingent in a program by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to build up the population of the mammal along the rivers of Iowa again, stopped over in Ringgold county Monday. While at the wildlife management area west of Mount Ayr, the Louisiana otters were tagged, weighed and checked over for any physical problems before being sent to three areas for release. When livestock are shown at the Ringgold County Fair this sum-mer, there will be one improvement which will help in the handling of livestock. A new pipe fence has been installed along the south side of the livestock barns which will make it easier to move livestock through the area and give a better place of tying up livestock out of the barn area. The idea for the fence began at the fair last year, and since then a number of people have donated funds, given discounts on pipe or spent hours welding the fence in place. The Mount Ayr Community FFA chapter will put the fi nal touches on the fence when the members paint the fence in the next few weeks. The project was done through donations when it was found that the fair board did not have the funds to replace the old barbed wire fence which was in need of repair. Farm commodity prices haven’t kept up with prices of inputs into farming, farm broadcaster Derry Brownfi eld reminded the crowd attending the MARC Farmer Appre-ciation night at the American Legion Hall Friday night. Brownfi eld told about receiving $2 a bushel for corn in 1947 when land was $35 an acre and a tractor cost $2,000 or less. Input costs have risen by more than 10 times while corn is still at the price, he noted. Top record book winners were named when the Mount Ayr Community chapter of the Future Farmers of America held its annual banquet recently. Top record books were kept by Erin Jackson, Marcy Miller, Steve Reeve and Becky Whitson. There were no obituaries pub-lished in this week’s issue.

Ten Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, March 20, 2003.) As part of an effort to make it harder to get the ingredients to manufacture methamphetamine, a new program is in place to put locks on fertilizer tanks across Ringgold county. Anhydrous ammonia, which is used for fertilizer, is also one of the building blocks for manufactur-ing methamphetamine. Locks have been purchased for all anhydrous ammonia tanks in Ringgold county through a program sponsored by the area drug task force. With federal funds, locks were purchased for all the tanks in the county. A Ringgold county farm couple is one of four couples from across the state to be named Iowa Master Farmers by Wallaces Farmer maga-zine this year. Lee and Martha Faris of Mount Ayr have been chosen in this year’s program. The Iowa Master Farmer program was started by Henry A. Wallace in 1926 and since then just 390 farm families have received the award. With the news that the Iowa Department of Economic Develop-ment would not allow grant funds

to be used in the effort to correct infl ow and infi ltration problems in the city sewers, the Mount Ayr City Council met with representatives from Howard R. Greene Co. to try to determine the next step of action. The engineering fi rm, represented by Jim Opelt and Jim Maynes, brought the plans for the next step in the process of fi nding areas of the sewer line which need to be repaired or homes or businesses that have downspouts or sump pumps hooked up to the sanitary sewer system. Plans for the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAG-BRAI) is now underway, according to committee co-chair Sandy Lamb. The route through Mount Ayr for Tuesday, July 22, has been set along with work for arranging booths and entertainment. The RAGBRAI riders will come into Mount Ayr from the west on Highway 2 after leaving Bedford. The riders will be directed to take Shellway Drive past the Ringgold County Hospital to Madison Street, follow Madison Street to the square where food, entertainment and activities will be going on. The bikers will then be asked to take Taylor Street back to Highway 2. The board of supervisors re-ceived three fuel bids for secondary roads, including MFA Oil Company of Mount Ayr, RK Fuels Inc. of Diagonal and Smith Oil Company of Mount Ayr. Bill Stull of MFA Oil Company had the lowest bid with $1.3556 per gallon of gasohol, $20,334 for 15,000 gallons and $1.1736 per gallon of diesel fuel, $58,680 for 50,000 gallons, total-ling $79,014 for the bid. This is up 74 percent from last year’s fuel prices of $45,454.50, an increase of $33,559.50. Project TNT (Toward No To-bacco) is currently being presented to Mount Ayr Community elemen-tary school fi fth grade students by Ringgold County Public Health. Shelly Adams participated in the TNT program recently by sharing about the Just Eliminate Lies (JEL) summit she attended. Mount Ayr Community high school’s drama department pre-sented “Who Killed Elvis?” as its spring play Friday and Saturday. Joe Ricker of Mount Ayr, son of Brent and Martha Ricker, won the state championship in the kin-dergarten heavyweight class at the 2003 AAU Super Pee Wee state folkstyle wrestling championships in Waterloo. Obituaries this week were Gladys Steele Carr, Sadie Faye Perry Kibbe and Maxine McCall.

Loaves and Fishes meal a successTHOUGHTS& other thingsBY ALAN SMITH

Rice and beans and collard greens for 100. That was one of the tasks I helped take on for spring break which Valle and I spent in Columbia, MO, with Erin and Peter Cornish and the grandkids. When Erin heard we were free to come, she scheduled a week full of events that she would need a babysitter for, with Valle and I as babysitters. Peter was scheduled to spend most of the week at a confer-ence for Pew grant recipients in Puerto Rico. Then Valle’s week was cut short because of the winter weather days that cut into the time off from school last week. So we took two cars and Valle came back early while I stayed the rest of the week to help out Erin. During the week we were there Erin got in three of her volunteer days scheduled at Millie’s preschool, had eye and dental appointments and had time to go with Millie for a haircut. The biggest of the tasks, however, was cooking a meal for the Loaves and Fishes ministry in Columbia, which provides an evening meal every day for the hungry in the com-munity. Peter and Erin’s church group is part of the rotating schedule there. Friday evening was Erin’s appointed day to cook the meal and Valle had to leave Wednesday night to get back home to teach, so I took on the task of help-ing get the meal. Erin had done the scouting work of coming up with a recipe for cooking 100 portions of rice, 100 portions of Louisiana red beans and 100 portions of collard greens. Thank goodness for the Internet with its links to sites around the country. We had never cooked the red beans or collard greens before, how-ever. She planned to also serve peaches and cookies to round out the meal. On Wednesday she made her shopping trip to get the food together. More than $150 later she had the six pounds of brown rice, six pounds of beans, six pounds of Polish sausage, a pound and a half of ham, 14 large onions, 10 bunches of green onions, eight two-pound bags of collard greens, a pound of bacon, three restaurant size cans of peaches, eight dozen cookies and the other seasonings needed for the big meal. She also rounded up the big aluminum baking pans needed and the plates, plastic ware and cups for the meal. We didn’t have enough big pots for the cooking, so she borrowed one from a friend to help with the big meal. The red bean recipe was the one we started on fi rst. Erin and Millie had gone to Independence to get their hair cut along with Cara Thursday morning. It had been planned as a mother-daughter outing for Valle, Erin and Cara, but Millie had to step in when Valle went home. Eli was at school and I was home babysitting Es-ther, so when Esther went down for her nap, I dove in to the fi rst part of the red bean recipe. Using Erin’s Vitamix, I soon had 12 large onions chopped up fi ne. I used the chopping board to chop up the 10 bunches of green onions. In went some olive oil, a bunch of precut garlic and dried parsley. That more than half fi lled our biggest pot. I cooked it down as the recipe called for. I then grilled the Polish sausage and chopped it into half-inch pieces and cubed the ham. Meanwhile the dried beans went into a pot to soak and swell overnight. The meat went into the refrigerator but the big pan of vegetables wouldn’t fi t. So we put the pan of vegetables in Erin’s car for the night because it was plenty cold there. What we didn’t count on was what a pan of onions and garlic would do to a car when it sat in it overnight. I’m not sure if the smell has gone away yet. Oh well. The rice recipe was pretty straightforward. I had never heard of cooking rice this way, but it works. We put two pounds of rice plus the appropriate amount of boiling water in the pan, then baked it in the oven. Erin did that when she got home to make sure this would work when we cooked the rest of the rice the next day. It took a half-hour or so longer than the recipe for some reason, but it worked. Friday morning Erin had to take Millie to pre-school for the morning as the third of her volunteer days during the stay, so Esther and I stayed home and began work on the rest of the meal. All of the red bean cooking would not fi t in the

biggest pot so we divided up the vegetable mix-ture, the beans and the meat between two pots and got them cooking. They were supposed to be sim-mered for at least two hours once they came to a boil. When Erin got back we got the second and third batches of rice baking in the oven together. We thought this would take longer than one, so we got them going in what we thought would be plenty of time. Once the red beans were fi nished, we put them in the large aluminum serving pans and covered them, setting them aside for awhile while we dove into the collard greens. I chopped up some more onions, cooked the ba-con and cut it up and then heated the onions and bacon to get ready for the collard greens. Eight pounds of collard greens had to be split up into three of the largest pots we had because of their volume. Soon all three pots were cooking away on the stove. We checked on the rice after the fi rst hour. Uh oh. It was still rice in water. We had to be serving the food at the Methodist Church in downtown Co-lumbia by 5 p.m. sharp and it didn’t look like the rice would make it at this rate. Prayer time. “If you can do the loaves and fi shes miracle, surely you can get this rice cooked.” I turned the oven up to 425 degrees. Erin went on to the church with the pans of beans and the one pan of rice that had been pre-cooked to get them warmed up again. I stayed at home manning the rice and getting the collard greens cooked down. Erin’s neighbors had volunteered to help serve the food so they were going to take a load when they were ready to go. Erin called back to check on the rice. I carefully peeled back the lid to check on our miracle rice. Hallelujah, there was cooked rice there instead of drowned grains. The collard greens were getting done too, so I served them up into three aluminum pans. The neighbors knocked on the door, so I sent one pan of rice and one pan of collard greens with them while I fi nished up. I got Eli, Millie and Esther into the van and loaded the last rice and collard green pans and we were on our way. Except I wasn’t sure how to get to the church. Erin gave me directions as I drove, but I turned the wrong way on one of the streets and traveled way out into the University of Missouri campus instead of the other way to the church. I called Valle who helped me fi gure out the map application on my phone which I had never used and headed in the right direction again. Erin called and wondered where I was with the rest of the food. I pulled into the parking lot at 4:50 p.m. and the food was ready for the folks. One of the men there for the meal asked about the greens. It turns out he was from North Carolina originally and knew greens well. “This is the fi rst time we have cooked them, so if they taste good it has to be the Lord’s doing,” she told the man. I took the kids on to McDonald’s for a happy meal. I was too pooped to cook something for them and we hadn’t held back food because we didn’t know how many people would be at the church. The meal turned out to be a great success with the folks. We had guessed correctly for everything but the collard greens. Though they ate a lot of those, 16 pounds is a lot more than are needed by 100 people, we determined. So Erin has some collard greens frozen in her freezer to pull out for meals as she needs them. When we looked back on our Loaves and Fish-es experience, we felt we had surely been blessed in the preparation and were blessed again by the response of the people who needed the meal.

Grade 8 80.50 82 Grade 11 85.75 90 Another set of statistics in the report compares Mount Ayr stu-dents’ level of profi ciency to those of students in our region (within the Green Valley Area Education Agency service area) and across the state of Iowa. Because of the possible effect of the test revi-sion, these numbers may provide a clearer picture of Mount Ayr stu-

More on student performance data____________________________Continued from front page dent performance when compared

to other students who all took the same tests. 2012-2012 Reading Math Science3rd grade Mount Ayr 88 86 92 Region 74 75 82 State 76 75 834th grade Mount Ayr 69 90 88 Region 71 74 84 State 73 77 835th grade Mount Ayr 65 78 82 Region 72 73 77 State 73 77 766th grade Mount Ayr 70 81 91 Region 61 65 76 State 64 70 747th grade Mount Ayr 66 92 84 Region 66 75 71 State 67 78 708th grade Mount Ayr 64 77 82 Region 63 70 75 State 65 73 7511th grade Mount Ayr 95 88 90 Region 82 78 85 State 83 81 85 Much more information is available in the report in the dis-trict’s central offi ce or on the dis-trict’s website.

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

Kindergarten registration April 8

Almost 27,000 Iowans age 40 and older have open-angle glau-coma, a 12 percent increase from just four years ago, according to the 2012 Vision Problems in the U.S. report from Prevent Blind-ness America and the National Eye Institute. Along with the troubling increase in the number of cases, it is the major concern that half of those people who have glaucoma are not aware of it. To address this major public health concern, Prevent Blindness Iowa is joining with other leading vision and eye health groups to declare January as National Glau-coma Awareness Month. Prevent Blindness Iowa provides free re-

sources to educate the public on glaucoma through “The Glaucoma Learning Center,” a website at www.preventblindess.org/glaucoma and printed materials, available by request, by calling 515-244-4341 or 800-329-8782. Because symptoms develop so gradually that the patient may not notice them right away, glaucoma is often referred to as the “sneak thief of sight.” Glaucoma is ac-tually a group of eye conditions that can damage the optic nerve. Symptoms for open-angle glauco-ma may include developing blind spots in the peripheral vision. If left untreated, over time, glaucoma may also damage central vision.

Risk factors for glaucoma in-clude age, family history, near-sightedness, eye injury or surgery and the use of steroid medications. Race is another major risk factor as, according to the National Eye Institute, glaucoma is fi ve times more likely to occur in blacks than in whites, and blacks are four times more likely to go blind from it. Hispanics are more likely to de-velop glaucoma after age 60 than any other group. Once vision is lost to glau-coma, it cannot be restored. How-

ever, promising research from the University of Michigan Medical School, led by Joshua Stein, MD, MS, found that the risk for glau-coma was reduced by eight percent in hyperlipidemia patients who took statins continuously for two years, compared with patients who did not take statins. For more information on glaucoma or Medicare benefi ts for glaucoma services, please call Prevent Blind-ness Iowa at 515-244-4341/800-329-8782 or visit www.prevent-blindness.org/iowa.

Cases of glaucoma on the rise in Iowa

NOTICERinggold County Driver’s License Office

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Friday, March 28, 2013due to tax collections.

Property taxes are due, March 31,2013.

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One year ago, Ruth and I decided toOne year ago, Ruth and I decided to

let Randy, Jr. run our business on a trial let Randy, Jr. run our business on a trial

basis, with us supporting him. We feelbasis, with us supporting him. We feel

he has done very well during this year he has done very well during this year

and now he and his wife, Robin, are and now he and his wife, Robin, are

going to purchase our stock and assume going to purchase our stock and assume

full ownership of McDonnell Appliance, full ownership of McDonnell Appliance,

effective Monday, April 1, 2013.effective Monday, April 1, 2013.

He has maintained our firm He has maintained our firm

commitment to our customers that iscommitment to our customers that is

so important to us, and will continue this so important to us, and will continue this

into the future. Ruth will do the into the future. Ruth will do the

bookkeeping for now, and I will be bookkeeping for now, and I will be

available for some fill-in for him.available for some fill-in for him.

We wish Randy and Robin the very We wish Randy and Robin the very

best with their new business, andbest with their new business, and

we hope the community will be as we hope the community will be as

supportive to them as you have beensupportive to them as you have been

to us. Thank all of you, and God bless to us. Thank all of you, and God bless

you. We love Ringgold County and the you. We love Ringgold County and the

surrounding areas. You are truly surrounding areas. You are truly

wonderful people.wonderful people.

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SIMPLE MISDEMEANOR AND TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS

March 14-21, 2012 Nancy Jean Gepner, Mount Ayr, $114.00, speeding 6-10 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Valerie Patton Jones, Mount Ayr, $397.50, violation fi nancial liability coverage. Terrisue Johnson, Urbandale, $114.00, speeding 6-10 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Danny Dwayne Slater, Ed-wards, MO, $115.00, speeding 6-10 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Sheila Ross, Mount Ayr, $195.00, passing contrary to high-way signs/markings. Lawrence William Osborn, Lamoni, $397.50, driving while license denied, suspended or can-celled.FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY

MAGISTRATE COURT• March 20 - A judgment was

fi led in magistrate’s court fi nding Lesa Darrah of Redding guilty of theft in the fi fth degree. Darrah was ordered to pay a fi ne of $100, a surcharge of $35, a law enforcement initiative sur-charge of $125, court costs of $60 and restitution to Jerry’s Sinclair of $66.11, all monies payable to the clerk of court. Darrah was also in-structed to be fi ngerprinted by the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Offi ce within seven days.

RINGGOLD COUNTYSHERIFF’S LOG

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

March 14-20, 2012Thursday, March 14

12:46 p.m., caller with informa-tion for offi cer. (KE) 1:43 p.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 2:01 p.m., caller wanting gun permit information. (KE) 2:02 p.m., caller with informa-tion for sheriff. (MA) 2:45 p.m., cow call. (KE) 3:02 p.m., caller with informa-tion regarding an inmate. (OC) 3:45 p.m., report of an accident. (MA) 3:51 p.m., call for sheriff. (MA) 4:36 p.m., 911 call, request for an ambulance.

Friday, March 15 5:40 p.m., caller with informa-tion regarding an investigation. (DI) 6:28 p.m., Iowa Donor Network calling to speak to an offi cer. (CO) 7:40 p.m., call for offi cer. (KE)

Saturday, March 16 1:16 p.m., call for offi cer re-garding mischief in the northwest part of the county. (DI) 2:08 p.m., call for offi cer. (MA) 3:27 p.m., call for offi cer re-garding more mischief in the northwest part of the county. (DI) 7:50 p.m., caller with informa-tion for offi cer. (MA)

Sunday, March 17 10:23 a.m., caller with informa-tion for jailer regarding inmate. (MA) 10:25 a.m., caller with informa-tion for jailer regarding inmate. (OC) 11:45 a.m., caller reporting sto-len items. (CO) 12:17 p.m., report of a fi re. (CO) 2:28 p.m., caller reporting a fi re and requesting fi re trucks. (CO) 7:02 p.m., caller with informa-tion for jailer regarding inmate. (KE) 7:50 p.m., call for offi cer. (CO)

Monday, March 18 8:05 a.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (KE) 9:11 a.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (OC) 9:41 a.m., caller with informa-tion for offi cer. (CO) 10:20 a.m., caller wanting a sal-vage tag for deer carcass. (CO) 11:04 a.m., caller setting up visitation with inmate. (KE) 11:05 a.m., sex offender check-

ing in. (CO) 12:50 p.m., 911 call. (MA) 1:24 p.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (OC) 1:35 p.m., caller needing an ac-cident report. (BE) 2:57 p.m., call for offi cer. (OC) 3:52 p.m., caller setting up visi-tation with inmate. (OC) 4:02 p.m., caller with informa-tion regarding an inmate. (MA)

Tuesday, March 19 4:36 a.m., call for REC offi ce. (OC) 7:59 a.m., caller returning sher-iff’s phone call. (OC) 8:08 a.m., call for jail. (CO) 8:46 a.m., call for jail. (OC) 9:08 a.m., caller advising they were sending papers to be served. (OC) 9:12 a.m., call for sheriff. (CO) 9:24 a.m., sales call. (OC) 9:47 a.m., 911 call, request for an ambulance. (MA) 10:03 a.m., caller with ques-tions regarding a gun permit. (CO) 11:09 a.m., call for dispatch. (MA) 11:20 a.m., caller advising of a controlled burn. (CO) 11:45 a.m., call for chief depu-ty. (OC) 2:10 p.m., animal complaint. (MA) 2:22 p.m., call for offi cer. (KE) 3:13 p.m., call for chief deputy. (MA) 3:31 p.m., caller wanting a call back. (MA) 3:38 p.m., caller with informa-tion requested. (MA) 3:55 p.m., call for inmate. (OC) 4:30 p.m., caller with message for sheriff. (MA) 4:50 p.m., caller reporting a controlled burn. (MA) 5:05 p.m., caller wanting to talk to offi cer. (EL) 6:13 p.m., caller asking their call be returned. (MA)

Wednesday, March 20 6:32 a.m., 911 call, request for an ambulance. (MA) 7:11 a.m., caller reporting that a deer was caught in a fence. (CO) 8:59 a.m., call for dispatch. (OC) 9:36 a.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 9:56 a.m., call for sheriff. (OC) 10:26 a.m., call for dispatch. (MA)

COURTHOUSE NEWS Ringgold County Courthouse hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Ringgold county now has a website at www.ringgoldcounty.us. • Assessor: Neil Morgan, 464-3233. • Auditor: Amanda Waske, 464-3239. • Board of Supervisors: David Inloes, chairman, Royce Dredge and Kraig Pennington, members, 464-3244. Supervisors meetings are open to the public and are held in the su-pervisors conference room located on the second fl oor between the clerk of court and auditor’s offi ce. On days the board is not sched-uled to be in offi ce, please direct all inquiries to the auditor’s offi ce. To schedule a meeting time with the supervisors, contact the audi-tor’s offi ce. Regular board meetings are held on Mondays with offi cial public notice of the meeting agen-das posted at the Ringgold county courthouse, Mount Ayr Record-News, Sun Valley Lake and Diago-nal city hall the day before. • Clerk of Court (a state of-fi ce): Jackie Saville, 464-3234; fax: 464-2478. Offi ce hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. The clerk’s offi ce handles ali-mony and child support payments, probates, civil and criminal fi lings, magistrate’s court and records and services of adoptions, conservator-ships, court proceedings, divorces, estates, grand jury, guardianships, judgments, juvenile proceedings, mechanic’s liens, mental health admissions, petit jury, surety company certifi cates, state hospi-tal, traffi c violations, trust funds, trusteeships. Certifi ed copies can be made of above listed records. Court records are also available at www.iowacourts.gov. • County Conservation Board: Kate Zimmerman, phone: 464-2787, email: rangerkate@io-watelecom.net.

Please contact for information on rules and regulations, parks, trail ways, camping, shelter reser-vations, environmental education and more. Parks are open March 15 - November 15. Walk-in traffi c is allowed year round. • County Weed Commission-er: Brenda Adams, 641-344-9629. • Development and Tourism: Karen Bender, Coordinator, 464-3704. If anyone has any calendar events, please contact the develop-ment offi ce at 641-464-3704. • E-911 Service Board: Merle Walter, 307 N. Webster St., Mount Ayr, 464-3311. • Emergency Management Agency: Teresa Jackson, Coordi-nator, 109 W. Madison St., Suite 105, cell: 641-202-9671; phone: 464-3344; fax: 464-0663, email: tjackson@iowatelecom.net. Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The tornado sirens in Mount Ayr will be tested the fi rst Tuesday of each month unless there is se-vere weather. • Engineer: Zach Gunsolley, P.E., 464-3232. 707 South Hender-son Drive. Offi ce hours: Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. • General Relief: Gary Smith, 109 W. Madison St., 464-2397. Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Tuesdays, 8 a.m. - noon; Closed Wednesdays and Fridays. In case of emergency 641-464-2397 or 641-202-1199. • Recorder: Karen Schaefer, 464-3231. Passport applications are taken daily from 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. and noon - 4 p.m. Certifi ed vital records can be obtained from 8 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. The recorder’s offi ce serves as a passport agent. Items needed to apply are: certifi ed copy of birth certifi cate, driver’s license or state issued ID, two-inch square pass-port photos and passport applica-tion (both available at recorder’s offi ce) and fees. Allow four to six weeks from date of application to receive passport book or card from the passport agency. Expedited service is available for an addi-tional fee. Individuals with recent name changes can get their passport book/card updated without a fee within one year of issue. Forms may be obtained at the recorder’s offi ce. For additional information call the recorder’s offi ce or go to www.travel.state.gov/passport. Avoid a $5 penalty by renew-ing boat registrations by April 30, 2013. • Sanitarian: Ringgold County Public Health Agency, 464-0691. Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • Public Health Agency: 119 S. Fillmore, 464-0691. Hours: Mon-day - Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • Sheriff: Mike Sobotka, Emer-

gency Only 911, Non-Emergency (Available 24/7) 464-3921 or 464-2911. New location at the Ringgold County Law Enforcement Center, 801 West South Street. Hours are 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Road Conditions - dial 511 or online at www.Io-waRoadConditions. org. • Treasurer: Debbie Cannon, 464-3230. The second half of the 2011 property taxes are due March 31, 2013. Mailed payments post-marked by April 1, 2013 will not have a penalty assessed. When paying your taxes, please include the tax stub from your tax state-ment. Applications for 2013 Iowa Property Tax Credit for Elderly and Disabled Taypayers must be sub-mitted by the fi ling date of May 1, 2013. Applications may be picked up in the offi ce or downloaded at www.iowatreasurers.org. Property taxes can be paid on-line at www.iowatreasurers.org with Visa, Master Card and Dis-cover credit cards or e-checks. Payments made in the offi ce may be with cash, checks or with a Mas-ter Card, Visa or Discover credit or debit card. All documents conveying real estate need to have the name and address of the person to whom the property tax statement is to be mailed. Please check renewal notices and tax statements for the correct information. If the infor-mation is wrong, contact the trea-surer’s offi ce. Motorists can now renew mo-tor vehicle registrations online at www.iowatreasurers.org if a re-newal notice is received through the United States Postal Service that contains a personal identifi ca-tion number (PIN). Please be aware that the PIN can only be used one time. Contact the treasurer’s offi ce for more information. Those with February birth dates are reminded to register their mo-tor vehicles by March 31, 2013. Bring in the renewal statement re-ceived in the mail so renewals can be quickly processed. • Driver’s License Offi ce: Lo-cated in the Treasurer’s Offi ce. Driver’s licenses may be re-newed any time during the period of 30 calendar days before and up to 60 calendar days after the driver’s birth date. The driver’s license station hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Phone 464-3230 with ques-tions. • Veterans Affairs: Gary Smith, 109 W. Madison St., 464-2397. Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Tuesdays, 8 a.m. - noon; Closed Wednesdays and Fridays. In case of emergency 641-464-2397 or 641-202-1199.

Workout Place open for businessMembers of the Mount Ayr Chamber of Commerce welcome Doug Rohrer, new owner of the Workout Place at a recent ribbon cutting. Pictured are (L-R) Tracy Barnes, Randy McDonnell, Rohrer, Lawanda Case, Mike McClain, Chamber president and Karen Bender, Chamber secretary/treasurer.

from the audience. Karleen Ste-phens, superintendent of the Diag-onal school district, asked the leg-islators to explain the governor’s reluctance to consider Medicaid expansion in order to insure more underprivileged children. Sena-tor Ernst said the governor prefers a program such as Healthy Iowa that will cover individuals living at 100 percent of the poverty level and below, approximately 89,000 Iowans. Under the Healthy Iowa plan, those above the poverty level will still have the ability to pur-chase private insurance through provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Ernst cited three main issues with Medicaid expansion: 1) what would happen to those who may lose a job and yet not qualify for Medicaid, 2) Medicaid reimburse-ment has decreased over the years and 3) it’s unknown if the federal government reimbursement prom-ised under Medicaid expansion would be discontinued sometime in the future. There’s no guarantee, she said, that states could opt out of Medicaid expansion if that should happen. She added she had never heard a doctor say he’d rather have reimbursement from Medicare rather than from private insurance. In fact, because of low reimburse-ment rates, some doctors are now putting a cap on the number of Medicaid patients they are willing to serve. She said she has not heard much discussion about Medicaid expansion in the state House, and the legislature may need a special session to tackle the issue. Barbara Hutton asked who are the main supporters on either side

of the Medicaid expansion issue. Ernst replied the governor obvi-ously supports the Healthy Iowa program. The Iowa Hospital As-sociation favors Medicaid expan-sion because they would rather see some reimbursement rather than having to write off many of their care expenses to charity. She added she sees Medicaid expansion be-coming a political issue for those legislators seeking higher public offi ce. She recounted a recent pub-lic forum on mental health services that became a political rally in fa-vor of Medicaid expansion. She also stated she has heard stories of people moving across the border to Iowa from neighboring states sim-ply to receive increased assistance benefi ts. The entire system is bro-ken, she said.Road issues Karleen Stephens asked what the legislators were hearing about improving the state’s roads. Dolecheck said very few legisla-tors don’t realize something needs to be done, but some may not vote for it regardless. Dolecheck said he feels at this point there are enough votes to pass a fuel tax increase in both the House and the Senate, but the House leadership has so far honored the governor’s request to pass education reform and prop-erty tax reform prior to address-ing other issues. Dolecheck said he personally doesn’t feel the fuel tax increase should take a backseat to any other issues facing the state. He said he remains cautiously op-timistic and contended something would be done prior to the end of the session. He made a distinct connection between the rebound in

the ag economy and the improve-ment in the Iowa economy overall, but he added the road issue is one of those political footballs where legislators’ votes are going to be used against them regardless of which way they vote. “I’m not an individual who likes to raise tax-es,” he said, “but at some point in time, as a leader or representative or senator, you’ve got to do what’s best and make that decision and defend it. If it takes you out of of-fi ce, it takes you out of offi ce, but if in your heart you know it’s the right thing to do, you’ve got to do it.” Stephens expressed her appre-ciation for Dolecheck’s frankness. “We don’t have enough of that,” she said. “Even though we’re dif-ferent political parties, I just ap-preciate someone saying that I am going to vote my heart, and if they send me home, they send me home, but I’m going to do what’s right. I think that’s to be admired.”Final forum Saturday’s forum marked the last legislative coffee scheduled during this legislative session, which is due to adjourn the fi rst week in May. But both Ernst and Dolecheck expressed the belief the governor will likely bring the leg-islature back into session to handle Medicaid expansion and possibly other issues.

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Thursday, March 28 Card shower for Cathy Ward’s 70th birthday. Cards and corre-spondence may be sent to her at 103 W. Jefferson, Mount Ayr, IA 50854. Ringgold County Cattlemen’s banquet at the Mount Ayr Ameri-can Legion building with social at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ing at 8 p.m. at the Neighborhood Center, Mount Ayr.

Friday, March 29 Open house at the Ringgold County Extension offi ce to cel-ebrate Extension and Outreach Week afrom 10 a.m. to noon.

Saturday, March 30 Annual Easter egg hunt on the Ringgold county courthouse lawn at 10 a.m. Breakfast and Easter egg hunt at the Kellerton community center from 9 to 11 a.m. Egg hunt is at 10 a.m. Open house for Cathy Ward’s 70th birthday at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr from 1 to 5 p.m. If unable to attend, cards and correspondence may be sent to her at 103 West Jefferson Street, Mount Ayr, IA 50854.

Monday, April 1 Thin Within support group will meet at 5 p.m. at the Lighthouse. 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. Mount Ayr Order of the Eastern Star will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, Mount Ayr. Sowing in Tears Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. at the Light-house Church, two miles west of Mount Ayr.

Tuesday, April 2 Calico Quilters will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon at the Senior Citizens Activity Center, Mount Ayr. Mount Ayr Chamber of Com-merce will meet at 5:30 p.m. at Jamie’s Coffee Mill & Deli for dinner during the meeting. Faith Lodge #179 A.F. & A.M. meets at 8 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, Mount Ayr.

Wednesday, April 3 $1 sack day every day at the Ringgold County Neighborhood Center. Book fair at the Ringgold

County Hospital dining room from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Mount Ayr Public Library board will meet at 5:15 p.m. at the library.

Thursday, April 4Ringgold County Master Gar-

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday, April 7 Ringgold County Cares. Gospel sing at United Baptist-Presbyterian Church at 5 p.m.

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

Tuesday, April 9Mount Ayr American Legion

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

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

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

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

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Club Notes

Birthdays

Kathryn Stone

Stone to celebrate 70th birthday The family of Kathryn Stone is hosting a card shower in honor of her 70th birthday on March 30. Cards and correspondence may be sent to her at 202 Sheldon Street, Diagonal, IA 50845.

Daughton to celebrate 98th birthday Vera Daughton, formerly of Kellerton and now of Mount Ayr, will observe her 98th birthday an-niversary on April 5. Her family would like to hon-or her with a card shower on this special occasion. Cards and cor-respondence may be sent to her at Clearview Home, P.O. Box 552, Mount Ayr, IA 50854.

Cavendar recovering from stoke Dean Cavender, formerly of Ringgold county, is recovering from a major stroke and would appreciate hearing from Ringgold county friends. Cards and correspondence can be sent to him at 101 7th Street SE, Waseca, MN 56093 or he can be called at 507-833-3308.

Five generations recently got together at the home of Derald and Beverly Noble in Mount Ayr. Shown are (front, L-R) Helen Reynolds, great-great-grandmother; great-grandmother Beverly Noble holding four-and-a-half month old Makayla Brockelman. In back are Kelsi Brockelman, Maykayla’s mother, and Brenda Andrews, Maykayla’s grandmother. Kelsi and Maykayla live in Des Moines.

Five generations celebrated

Open house planned for Cathy Ward The family of Cathy Ward is hosting an open house in honor of her 70th birthday. The come-and-go event will be held at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr on Saturday, March 30, from 1 to 5 p.m. If you are unable to attend, cards and correspondence may be sent to Cathy at 103 West Jefferson Street, Mount Ayr, IA 50854.

Chapter CK PEO Chapter CK PEO met Monday evening, March 18, at the Senior Citizens Center. Kathy Rinehart, Bereavement Councilor of HCI, told about her duties and explained grief is normal and necessary. Refreshments were served be-fore the business meeting and ini-tiation ceremony. President Ruth McDonnell opened the meeting and 23 members answered roll call. Chaplain Edna Small read from Matthew 28:6-10. Minutes were read and approved and com-mittees reported. The budget was approved and the audit committee found the books in order. Two of-fi cers were installed. Historian Sue Buck read from the minutes of the March 15, 1916 meeting about suffrage. Meeting was closed by president Ruth. Next meeting will be held at the Mount Ayr high school library on April 15 for the scholarship tea. The social committee is in charge.

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March 25 - One of the best re-views the library receives is when a patron says, “I could not put this book down.” Even better to hear, “This book was so good that I didn’t want to fi nish it.” Rosam-unde Pilcher’s “The Shell Seekers” is a book that you can’t put down but you don’t want to fi nish. In Pe-nelope Keeling, Mrs. Pilcher has created an unforgettable character, one that most of us would like to meet. Penelope Keeling is a 64-year-old English widow with three grown children. Returning to her home in Podmore’s Thatch after a heart attack, she realizes that “liv-ing, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured.” Her father was Law-rence Stern, an artist who enjoyed modest success in the years before World War II. At the end of her long and use-ful life, Penelope Keeling’s prized possession is “The Shell Seekers” painted by her father and given to her as a wedding present. The paint-ing symbolizes her unconventional life from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. To her chil-dren, especially Nancy and Noel, the painting represents a fortune they would like to have. Unlike Penelope, who believes that “Hap-piness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you’ve got.” Nancy and Noel always want more. The great love of Penelope’s life, Richard, a Royal marine, is killed on the morning of D-Day. In her refl ections, Penelope realizes as Richard tells her before he leaves, “It was good and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, for-ever.” The author Rosemunde Pilcher, who retired from writing in 2000, was born in Lelant, Cornwall, Eng-land and writes with knowledge of this part of England and the people who lived there. During the war Penelope served in Wrens, the Women’s Royal Naval Service, as did the author. Because Rosa-munde Pilcher writes about what she knows, her writing is very powerful. Accused by Nancy, her eldest, of loving Olivia, her second daughter, the best, Penelope knows that “she had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons. Love, she had found, had a strange way of multiplying. Doubling, trebling itself, as each child arrived, there was always more than enough to go round.” The library has a number of her books, including “September” set in Scotland, where she has lived for many years. New to the library in large Christian fi ction, Karen Kings-bury’s latest book, “The Chance.” In large print fi ction, “Defending Jacob” by William Landay.

Warren Center to host jazz band The Soya Vista Jazz Orchestra takes the stage Saturday, April 13, at 7 p.m. at the Warren Cultural Center in Greenfi eld. This eight-piece ensemble specializes in the swinging, lounge-inspired jazz of the 1950s and 1960s.

Tickets are on sale now at Ed & Eva’s store, located at the Warren Cultural Center, 154 Public Square, Greenfi eld, and online at warrencul-turalcenter.com. Call Ed & Eva’s at 641-343-7337 for tickets.

ExtensionNews & Notes

Judy Hensley

Yard & Garden: Planting bare-root trees and shrubs Bare-root plants begin their life growing in a nursery fi eld and are harvested in the fall, when all of the soil is shaken from their roots. Because they do not have a soil ball they are considerably lighter, less expensive to ship and there-fore cost less than balled and bur-lapped or container-grown plants. Retailers prefer to sell them before they break bud and produce leaves – which comes very early in the growing season (March and April). But early is not always better as horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach explain. To have additional plant and garden questions answered, contact the ISU Hortline at 515-294-3108 or hortline@iastate.edu.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of bare-root trees and shrubs? As the name suggests, bare-root trees and shrubs have no soil around their roots. Bare-root nurs-ery stock is dug in late fall, placed in cold storage, then shipped to garden centers or gardeners in early spring. Bare-root trees and shrubs should be dormant upon re-ceipt of shipment or purchase. Dis-advantages of bare-root trees and shrubs are the length of the plant-ing season and size. Bare-root plant material should be planted in early spring before it begins to leaf out. Bare-root deciduous trees are gen-erally available up to eight feet in height. Evergreens are usually less than two feet tall. Bare-root trees and shrubs, however, are the most economical type of nursery stock. They are usually the best choice when purchasing large quantities of trees and shrubs for windbreaks or hedges. When should bare-root trees be planted? Bare-root trees and shrubs must be planted in early spring before growth begins. If rainy weather or other circumstances prevent plant-

ing within a few days of purchase, store bare-root material in a cool location, such as a garage or root cellar, until planting is possible. What is the proper way to plant a bare-root tree? Prior to planting, soak the tree’s roots in a bucket of water for one to two hours. Also, prune off dam-aged or broken roots. When ready to plant, dig a hole that is two to two-and-a-half times wider than the spread of the tree’s root system. The depth of the hole should be equal to the distance from the tree’s trunk fl are to the bottom of its roots. The trunk fl are is the point where the trunk begins to spread out as it meets the roots. Build a cone-shaped mound of soil in the center of the hole. Place the tree on top of the mound. The trunk fl are should be even with the sur-rounding soil surface. Spread the roots evenly over the mound. Then begin backfi lling with the original soil. As you backfi ll, fi rm the soil in the hole with your hands. Place soil to the trunk fl are. Finally, wa-ter the tree thoroughly. Many shade and fruit trees are propagated by grafting. The graft union is located near the base of the tree’s trunk and is denoted by a bulge or crook in the trunk. The graft union is typically one to three inches above the trunk fl are. When planting bare-root trees, be careful not to confuse the graft union with the trunk fl are.

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Saturday, April 6, 2013, 11 a.m.HOUSEHOLD GOODS

Maytag refrigerator freezer (1-year old), Maytag automatic washer, Whirlpool dryer, GE microwave, kitchen caddy, chrome kitchen table with (6) matching chairs, step stool, usual kitchen wares too numerous to mention, dining room table with (6) chairs and matching china hutch, (2) La-Z-Boy rocker recliners, swivel rocker, rocking chair, RCA home theater with TV and remote, Emerson video cassette recorder, Toshiba TV, Bose radio, davenport, round end tables with shelves, stair step end table, double bed with matching dresser and chest of drawers, double bed and chest of drawers and dresser set, bedding, double bed with matching chest of drawers and dresser set, antique twin bed set, single bed, sewing machine in cabinet, ironing board, desk and box fans.

ANTIQUES and COLLECTIBLESCast iron dinner bell, 30-gallon stone crock, 4-gallon Western stone crock, old flattop trunk,

No. 40 Dazey butter churn, walking sticks, (2) metal lawn chairs, (3) Tonka metal-type toys, granite coffeepot, double harpoon hay fork, (6) various wheels, No. 5 bear trap, coal bucket, galvanize tubs and bushel basket.

MACHINERYMassey Ferguson 135 tractor, spinout rear rubber,

tac shows 2,656 hours, 13.5 x 20 rear rubber. Chains to fit tractor, Ford 2 x 14” 3-pt. mounted plow, Model 12A New Idea tractor manure spreader, 3-pt. mounted dirt scoop, 2-wheel trailer with 56” x 8’ box, stationary Burr mill, Cross end gate seeder, HK two-wheeled flare box auger wagon, wooden grain conveyor, dual-wheeled tilt-bed trailer, 7’ 3” mounted blade.

PICKUP1966 Chevy 20 pickup truck, 6 cyl., 4 sp. transmission, some rust, Giant stock rack to fit

pickup.

MISCELLANEOUS(2) 100-lb. LP gas tanks, tank heater, 4” bench vise, Sears 10’ direct-drive band saw, steel

welding table, squirrel cage fan, Snapper 30” riding lawn mower, Craftsman II high-wheel self-propelled walk-behind 20” lawn mower, 9’ 6” flat-bottom boat, Sears 7 1/2-h.p. clutch drive motor for Gemfisher boat, fishing equipment, hedge posts, garden hose and reel, aluminum scoop shovel, 6’ stepladder, 14’ extension ladder, gas cans, MAC 15 chain saw, 1 full spool barbed wire, steel posts, log chains, loppers, ax, spade, jobbers, pitchfork and pick.

Machinery for old iron: Rotary hoe, spring-tooth harrow, elevator iron-wheeled grain drill.TERMS: Cash or good check. Nothing removed until settled for. Not responsible in case

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Senior CitizenActivity Center

• Jerry and Jean Barker of Mount Pleasant spent last week-end in the home of Guelda Barker. They also visited Don Stamper and JR Miller.

March 25 - March has proven to be interesting weather-wise and again the past weekend was no ex-ception. Unfortunately, the snack and game night scheduled for Sun-day, March 24, had to be cancelled due to the weather. They will try again in April to have this event as it is really looked forward to by the participants. The Activity Center was thrilled to learn they were the recipient of the SCICF $1,000 give-away to an existing endowment. There were a lot of people who sent in their recommendation for the $1,000 to be given to the Ringgold County Senior Citizens Activity Center and Dorothy Barber’s name was drawn. Dorothy was on hand when SCICF came for pictures and to award the $1,000. April is going to be a busy month for the Activity Center start-ing with the fi rst monthly potluck at the Center. They will be trying this for several months to see how well they are received. The potluck will take place on Tuesday, April 9, at noon. Bring a main dish, side dish or dessert to share and come social-ize with them. Bingo will be played that afternoon so stay and enjoy bingo with them also if you wish. April 22 the Center will be of-fering the AARP Safe Driving Course from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with a light lunch offered. Cost for the course is $12 for AARP mem-bers and $14 for non-members. A freewill offering will be accepted for the light lunch. Call or stop by to put your name on the sheet so they know how many people AARP will need supplies for. You will be paying the day of the event. April also brings two events on Tuesday, April 30. At 10 a.m. the Center will have a diabetic educa-tor with information on managing diabetes. Cari Seddon, dietitian, has been with them before and al-ways has lots of great information for those who are pre-diabetic or have Type I or II diabetes. Those at the Center hope you will join them. After the diabetic educator on April 30, you can stay for the pizza and bingo party sponsored by Care Initiatives Nursing & Rehab facili-ties. These have been very popular and Jason Lyon from this company always brings great pizza, great gifts, some chocolate and a good time. Plan on joining them. The Center is planning a day trip to Weston, MO Friday, May 24. They are trying to get one price for the whole day including the bus

rental, historical tour of Weston and the museum, lunch at one of their historic dining establishments and time to spend in their historic shop-ping district before heading home. If you are interested in this day trip, let the Center know by calling 641-464-0577 to get your spot reserved. They need to know how large a bus they need and how many they should plan for by May 10. The Center should have the price for this trip in the article next week. Stop by and see those at the Cen-ter, sign up for one of the events or just have a cup of coffee and visit. Barring inclement weather, they are there Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

BentonMary Swank • 785-2205

March 25 - Monday visitors of Ann Baker were Hunter and Tyler Jay. Jessica Field, Wallace’s great-niece, spent a few days visiting Patty and Wallace Sobotka. Junior Swank attended Bob Er-ickson’s funeral Wednesday. Joan Stringham and Malinda Swank went to Million Dollar Quartet in Des Moines Friday eve-ning. Mary Gepner and Kay and Don Hove attended the Wishard Chapel fi sh fry Friday evening. Friday night and Saturday visi-tors of Ann Baker were Michael, Brandon and Brittney Lane. Kay Hove and Mary Gepner went to lunch together at Jamie’s Coffee Mill and Deli Saturday. Junior Swank attended visita-tion Friday evening and the funeral Saturday for Jerri McDaniel. Joan Stringham and Linda King went to the Loretta Lynn show Sat-urday night. Shane and Mitchel Swank vis-ited Sunday with Joan and Don Stringham. Kay and Don Hove were Sun-day supper guests of Mary Gepner.

Mount Ayr Meal Site

March 25 - This writer has fi -nally returned from sunny Arizona, where they enjoyed sunshine and warm weather. They missed a cou-ple of the snows back home but re-turned in time to get in on the most recent snowstorms. But spring is here (even if it doesn’t seem like it) and it always makes things seem a lot better. Easter is next Sunday, March 31. Easter will be celebrated at the meal site on Good Friday, March 29. They will be having an Easter bonnet contest. So grab a hat, dec-orate it in any way you want and wear it to the meal site Friday. If you don’t have a hat, be creative and improvise. You might win a prize. Prizes will be given for fi rst, second and third places. You just might win something good. Several meal site attendees have been ill recently. Vera Deemer spent an overnighter in Ringgold County Hospital recently and then resided in Clearview Home for a bit. She is now back among them and enjoy-ing playing cards. Some have had bouts of the intestinal fl u, including this writer, even in Arizona. Wanda

March 25 - Sympathy is sent out to the family of Gerri McDan-iel. Her funeral was held Saturday in Mount Ayr with burial in the Redding cemetery. The Sunshine Workers 4-H club will host their annual Easter party for neighborhood kids Saturday, March 30, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Frontier Hall in Redding. There will be games and activities, re-freshments and a candy hunt in the Redding park for kids sixth grade and under. Dorothy Barber was an over-night guest at Kelly and Tony Roach’s Friday. Saturday they all went to the junior high volleyball tournament at Missouri Western College in Saint Joseph, MO. Dor-othy’s granddaughter, Laney Hill, played on her school team. They won third place in the tournament. Oney Brumfi eld went to visi-tation for Gerri McDaniel Friday evening in Mount Ayr. Sympathy is sent to the fam-ily of Jake Hunt. His funeral ser-vices will be Monday at the Wat-son-Armstrong Funeral Home in Mount Ayr. June and Vance Combs of Cape Girardeau, MO visited Saturday afternoon with Helen Combs. Lil Rinehart was also a visitor. Sun-day Helen Combs and Lil Rinehart went to a party celebrating Jacob Wimer’s 14th birthday at his home in Grant City, MO. Bill and Patty Wimer, Lavena Wimer of Mount Ayr and Denise and Jeff Kelly and family of Afton were also guests. Gladys Jones called on Betty and J.W. Robertson Tuesday and attended the Assembly of God church prayer service Wednesday. She also visited with Mary and Cindy Daniels Wednesday. Gladys went to the Bible study led by Al-ice Miller at the Christian church Friday. She went with Betty and J.W. Robertson to visitation for Gerri McDaniel Friday evening in Mount Ayr.

March 25 - An Easter egg hunt will be held in Tingley Saturday, March 30. It will start promptly at 2 p.m. and is for all kids through fourth grade. There’ll be lots of marked dollar and quarter eggs to fi nd. Meet at the grocery store. The event is being sponsored by the Tingley Lions Club. Two special days are being planned for the meal site. One’s Easter. It’s being remembered Fri-day, March 29. There’ll be a spe-cial program headed by the Friday Singers. One of the day’s high-lights also will be a hat parade. Ev-eryone’s encouraged to wear a hat of some kind. Hats will be judged and four special awards given. All with hats will receive something for their efforts. There’ll be favors for everyone, plus a special menu just for the occasion. Then comes the best party of all, the meal site’s birthday party. They’re “39 and holding” and mighty proud of it. This party will be held Monday, April 1, April Fools’ Day. Coinciding with the day chosen to celebrate, the day has been declared crazy day. Those who want to are encouraged to dress like a fool -- the crazier, the better. If you don’t want to, don’t stay home, dress normal and just show up. Program begins at 11 a.m. A special roast beef menu is planned with favors for all and several door prizes to award. Res-ervations would be appreciated and can be made by contacting Nancy Jarred at 772,4499, the site or 772-4974, home. Lots of fun and extra activi-ties took place at the meal site last week. Saint Patrick’s Day was observed Monday. Peggy Skarda put together the nicest program in-volving not only her group, but ev-ery there. Virginia Walden played several Irish tunes on the piano. Peggy Skarda shared an Irish joke and Carmene James played a cou-ple of songs on the piano. Marge Patch had some interesting tidbits of information about Saint Pat-rick’s Day and Marge Werner had a reading. Bud Brown played his guitar and sang a couple of western songs. Accompanied by Virginia, everyone there joined together to sing a couple Irish songs. Russ Brown played a selection on his whistle. Everyone there had an op-

portunity to parade and show their stuff as “The Old Washer Woman” was played. Judges John and Mary Overholtzer picked Russ Brown to be the most Irish and Peggy Skarda, Bonnie Manders and George Hos-fi eld, the greenest. Recognized as eldest present were Marge Werner and Dave Jennings and youngest was Leigh James, Carmene James’ granddaughter, a guest this day. Dave Patch favored with “Danny Boy.” Blessing was given by Peg-gy Skarda and an Irish blessing by Dick Walden. This writer missed some of the program so she hopes it’s fairly correct. You wouldn’t be-lieve all the greens worn and found at the site that day. Even the rolls and cake turned green. Not to be outdone, Tuesday found a good number of band mem-bers on hand to entertain. They included accompanist Carmene James, plus Vern Brown, Doris Overholser, Mary Jane Narigon, Iona Triggs, Dick and Virginia Walden, Dorothy Clough, Evelyn Sickels, Dave Patch, Peggy Skar-da, Harold Brown, Norma Webb and Bonnie Manders. They chose a variety of songs for their sections. Marge Werner shared a joke to add a bit of humor to the day. Happy birthday wishes were extended to Lloyd Johnson, who observed his birthday the next day, March 20. He and Muriel were proud to have their daughter, Linda Ness; their granddaughter, Alana Cooper, and four-year-old great-granddaughter, Michelle Mi-lan, as their guests. The Johnsons provided the ice cream as a special treat for his birthday this day. A dozen in number showed up Friday as Friday Singers. Kay Henderson accompanied on the pi-ano, while Bonnie Manders served

as director. Singers included Iona Triggs, Dick and Virginia Walden, Bill and Norma Webb, Dorothy Clough, Don and Darlene Wim-mer, Harold Brown and Marge Werner. . Public health nurses Sharla Norris and Carol Ann Galloway were present. They were available to check blood pressures for any-one wanting theirs taken and also had a low fat corn cake for sam-ples. They’re a better snack choice than potato chips, also pretty tasty. Happy birthday wishes were extended to the site’s cook, Cheryl Roach, who was observing her birthday that day, March 22. Cher-yl treated everyone to ice cream. Happy birthday wishes are ex-tended to one of the site’s home delivery clients, Blanche Gilbert of Shannon City, who observed her 100th birthday March 23. Nancy Kelly and Race brought an assortment of cake mixes and ice cream to the site Friday. These donations are sure appreciated. Interesting to note, several par-ent, child or grandchildren combi-nations were at the site Friday. Kathy Stammer enjoyed having her two grandchildren, 10-year-old Amanda and eight-year-old Jer-emiah Monroe, as her guests Fri-day. Marge Werner enjoyed having her daughter, Jeannette Buell, as her guest. She came to visit a few days. Dave and Wilmina Jennings were proud to have their daugh-ter, Suzanne Adkisson, accompany them. Again Maxine Werner so much enjoys an opportunity to come to the meal site with her daughter, Nancy Kelly and Race. Friday is their outing to Tingley day.

Louden and Calvin Main were overnight guests at Ginny and Bill Quick’s Friday. They visited at Ber-ta and Kenny Quick’s Saturday. Betty and J.W. Robertson went to visitation and funeral services for Gerri McDaniel Friday and Saturday. Peter and Anna Shervheim spent the week at Teen Pact Camp in Des Moines. Birthday greetings were sent to Annabel Walkup and Sharon Walkup Sunday. Annabel and John David Walk-up went to the fi sh fry at Wishard Chapel Friday night. Annabel went to the game night at the Blockton community center Monday. She went to visitation and funeral ser-vices for Gerri McDaniel in Mount Ayr Friday and Saturday.

McGahuey spent a few hours at the Ringgold County Hospital getting rehydrated while others have been sick at home. Their wish is for all of you to be well and healthy and certainly some warm days and sun-shine should help out that process. Ringgold County Public Health was at the site Thursday, March 21, to do blood pressure checks, a service that is really appreciated. While this writer was away, a dedicated attendee, Joe Jackson, passed away. Joe enjoyed playing cards and bingo with others at the site. He also kept things lively and will be very much missed. April will soon be here and on April 12 the monthly birthday dinner will be observed. As usual, the menu will be fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and birthday cake and ice cream. The Community Singers will be enter-taining. Those with birthdays will be recognized. Come on out and celebrate with the birthday people. This writer wishes all their read-ers a blessed and happy Easter. Something to think about: “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -- William Shakespeare

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Connie Huff • 772-4748 March 25 - Ernie and Judy Mer-cer and his brother, Daryl, all at-tended church in Kellerton Sunday. Their brother-in-law, Raymond Doser, was guest speaker. Later Ernie and Judy, Daryl of Block-ton, Raymond and Dola Mercer of Lovilia and Glenn and Donna Pay-ton of Lamoni had lunch at Quilt Country in Lamoni. Linda Swanson attended a birthday party Tuesday evening for Ben Coulson’s third birthday in the home of his parents, Scott and Ka-tie Coulson. Friday evening Bob and Linda attended the Wishard Chapel fi sh fry at the Southwest Iowa REC building in Mount Ayr. Saturday Linda and Reta Freihage went to a meeting, “Time Apart,” at the United Methodist Church in Chariton. Brenna Swanson was a lunch guest of her grandparents, Linda and Bob, Monday. Jake and Jo Huff of Clinton came Saturday and visited Connie Huff and took her to lunch.

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BY CASSIDY MCATEE Kylie Randelle Wilson is the daughter of Lisa Wilson and has one older brother and two older sisters. Brad Wilson, 28, is Kylie’s older brother. Deb Johns, 26, and Cacey Wilson, 19, are Kylie’s old-er sisters. Kylie has been involved in many actives since her freshman year such as, Bowling for one year, class treasurer for one year, and academic bowls for two years. She has also been a football cheer-leader for 3 years, drill team for 3 years, basketball cheerleading for 2 years, and wrestling cheerlead-ing for 2 years. She has been on the A-honor-roll for 4 years and drama for 4. Kylie has also been student of the month for 3 years and on the All Iowa Honor Dance Team for 2 years. Did you know that Kylie’s fa-vorite food was Spaghetti and her favorite television show is Pretty Little Liars. Kylie’s favorite car to drive is her own car she has now, Ford Escape. Her favorite movie is The Princess Bride or Pitch Per-fect. Her favorite type of clothes to wear is Yoga Pants and her favorite type of music is the Pitch Perfect Soundtrack. One of Kylie’s most memorable moments while being in Mount Ayr high school is when she fell off of her walker at a pep rally during a Sparks novelty performance. She says,”I still haven’t lived it down and I probably won’t, until I need a walker for real.” Kylie plans to attend AIB Col-lege of Business in Des Moines in

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Kylie Wilson

the fall. She is going to major in Accounting and possibly go for a Dual major. Maxine, Kylie’s grandma, has been a huge infl uence in her life. She has always been there for me at sporting events and performanc-es. Kylie got asked if she could describe herself in one word what would it be and why? She said she would be cheery, because she loves cheerleading and how it im-pacts people around her. She takes her attitude from cheerleading and uses it every day. In Kylie’s life she got told some great advice that was live, laugh, love. It’s a saying that can be found on home decor everywhere. Those three words can make someone’s life better and satisfactory.

Kylie Randelle Wilson

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Jena James

BY HANNAH FLETCHALL Jena Lynn James is the daugh-ter of Kevin and Tammy James of Mount Ayr. Throughout high school, Jena has been involved in Volleyball (1 year), Football Cheerleading (3 years), Golf (2 years), Track manager (2 years), Wrestling cheerleading (3 years), Softball (4 years), Band (1 year), FFA (3 years), Drama (4 years), TSA (4 years), and Country Coun-cil (3 years). She was honored to be on National Honor Society, State Cheerleading Stunt Competition, and selection for the Cheerleading Honor Squad. Jena’s favorite food is Chicken Alfredo and her favorite car is a Pontiac Grand Prix. Hawaii Five-O is her favorite TV show and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Pitch Per-fect are her favorite movies. Jeans and boots are her favorite clothing attire. You would most likely fi nd Jena listening to country and pop music. Her most memorable moment was sleeping over at the school at the Mount Ayr Duals. She has had so much fun in Football and Wres-tling Cheerleading. Jena’s future plans are to attend Northwest Missouri State Uni-versity and major in Agricultural

and minor in Animal Science. The most infl uential people is her life are her parents. They have always been there for her and supported her decisions. If Jena could describe herself in one word it would be sociable. Her favorite activity is talking. The best advice she has ever received was to be yourself, don’t waste your high school years caring about what others think of you.

Jena Lynn James

Senior cheerleaders refl ect on their sportErin DolecheckBY EMILY FOX Erin Dolecheck is a senior cheerleader at Mount Ayr high school. She has cheered for bas-ketball for three years and football cheerleading for two years. Her senior year she was the basketball cheerleading captain. Her fondest memories in cheer-leading were her sophomore year when she cheered at the state bas-ketball tournament for the girls basketball team. Another fond memory was cheering for football this season. Her most embarrassing moment during cheerleading was when she accidentally did a kick for the oth-er team during a basketball game. Cheerleading has taught Erin that you have to be dedicated to do it, and you can’t be afraid to out and be crazy in front of people. The advice that she gives to un-derclassmen is you need to make sure that you actually want to be a part of cheerleading when you try out. You can’t be afraid to yell loud while cheering. Erin will miss the people that she got to cheer with the most once she graduates.

Maggie JennettBY DYLAN DOMAN Maggie Jennett has been a wrestling cheerleader for four years. Maggie will miss spending the weekends together with the rest of the cheerleaders and getting to

April Shields BY JENNIFER BLAIR April Shields has been involved in football and basketball cheer-leading for two years and has let-tered both years. Her fondest memory was all of the rides to the games with the girls and the coaches. April’s most embarrassing moment was when Kylie was falling from a stunt and April caught her with her face. Being a cheerleader has taught her drama and stuff that happens during the day doesn’t matter at the end of the day. Once you get to practice, have fun and forget ev-erything bad that happened before. Advice that April would give an underclassmen is being a cheer-leader is tough and takes a lot of work but it’s rewarding. April will miss spending time in that activity after she graduates.

Jennifer BlairBY HANNAH FLETCHALL Jennifer Blair is a senior bas-ketball cheerleader at Mount Ayr high school. She has been involved in cheerleading for two years. Her fondest memories were all of the rides to games with the girls. Jennifer’s most embarrassing moment was messing up on some cheers. Cheerleading has taught her that if you work hard, you will get far. It has also taught her to never give up and try new things. Jen would advise any underclassmen to try it, everything is worth a shot. She will miss all of the fun times with the girls and coaches the most.

know all of the girls really well. She will also miss all the memo-ries that you make. Her favorite memory would be spending Friday night at the school in between the duals at their annual cheerleading sleepover (especially playing hide-and-go seek). Maggie will always remem-ber being able to experience state wrestling with all the girls. If she had to give advice to underclass-men it would be to just be yourself and have fun. Cheerleading is a blast, but you can’t hold back. You just have to go for it.

BY MAGGIE JENNETT Part of the Mount Ayr individ-ual speech team made their way to state. On February 23, district speech contest was held at ADM high school. Here is where the students found out if they qualifi ed for the state contest. Those who qualifi ed were Ja-cob Sobotka (Radio Broadcast-ing), Matt Poore (Improvisation), Allison Wallace (Poetry), Lew Knapp (Acting), and Maggie Jen-nett (Acting and Prose). These stu-dents received a one rating at dis-trict contest which advanced them on to the state contest. They will be competing on Saturday, March 9 at Nevada high school. Others who competed on Feb-ruary 23 were Alex Young (Poet-ry), Ica Hauge (Prose), Wyatt Jack-son (Public Address) and Kody Weeda(Public Address). These students received a two rating at district contest. “I am really proud of all of the freshman who tried speech this year, and who have said that they plan to go out next year. Also, I am very proud of all the upper-classmen who have been great leaders and who continue to amaze me with their abilities. All of my

BY BAILEA STARK This spring the Mount Ayr drama club put on a production called “Donovan’s Daughters.” It is about fi ve young ladies who are following their father’s family tra-dition from Ireland. The tradition is that the eldest daughter must marry fi rst before the younger ones. The eldest daughter, though, is a very spiteful and independent young lady who believes she does not need a husband. All the young sisters are ready to settle down and get married. So the men of the younger sisters try to convince the chief deputy that the eldest sister is fond of him and is only cruel to the ones she truly likes. Finally after a lot of hard work and a kidnapping, the chief deputy and the eldest sis-ter fi nally get married and the rest of the daughters are fi nally free to marry whenever they please. This play was performed March 8 and 9. We had an amazing turn out! This year during our spring play we had our annual pie auc-tions that turned out very well.We also had a lot of help from our community to help us pull off this year’s play. We would like to give special thanks to Preston and Katie Hayse, Doug Still, Kate Zimmerman, Sue Jones, Lisa Jones Cook, Princess Theatre Troupe, Podium Ink, Jeff and Amy Sickles, Scott Giles, MACHS janitorial staff, Clint, Jil-lian and Tess Kniep, and Mrs. Pam Poore’s class. Also don’t forget to join us November 15 and 16, 2013 for our fall play “Our Town.”

Donavon’s Daughters hits MACHS spring stage

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BY MADISON HOSFIELD The Mount Ayr high school student council held their annual blood drive on March 5, hosted by Life Serve Blood Center. Students helped set up the blood drive starting at 7:45 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. The drive was very successful as there were 43 donors who registered to give blood. This left the group with 31 whole blood units and four double red proce-dures (counting for eight units to-tal). This led the group to earn a total of 39 units, beating their goal by two. It was also great to wel-come 27 new donors into the blood donor family, as it was their fi rst time giving blood. A good day was had by all in celebration of many lives being saved. The student council en-joyed holding the event and the do-nors enjoyed helping out as much as they could.

Science teacher Faye Howie volunteers at the recent blood drive at Mount Ayr high school. A total of 43 donors, including 27 fi rst-time donors, pro-vided 39 units of blood during the event.

MAC hosts blood drive

“Three Little Pigs” opera in Clearfi eld A popular children’s story will be performed as opera in an up-coming performance at Clearfi eld school. “The Three Little Pigs” will be presented by the OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe on Monday, April 1 at 2 p.m. The performance is one stop on the OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe 2013 statewide spring tour. OPERA Iowa is a pro-gram of Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc. Davies’ “The Three Little Pigs” is considered a perfect introduc-tion to the music of Mozart for elementary and middle school stu-dents. This operatic version of the childhood favorite tells the tale of two sassy pigs and their older and wiser sister. The performance lasts

approximately 40 minutes. By the end of its tour, OPERA Iowa will have visited more than 60 schools and communities, giv-ing 80 or more performances for approximately 20,000 school-aged children between January 28 and April 12. The school performances are presented in conjunction with interactive and engaging work-shops that meet the National Stan-dards for Arts in Education guide-lines. The troupe will also give 11 evening concert performances for community audiences in various locations across the state. These performances are open to the pub-lic. A complete listing of OPERA Iowa’s performance schedule is available online. OPERA Iowa is also offering a Masterclass for high school stu-

dents, in which students can ben-efi t from vocal tips and insights from the OPERA Iowa singers and music coach. All OPERA Iowa performances are sung in English with a piano accompaniment. OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe members are hand-picked from nationwide auditions of more than 800 singers to share their love of opera with audiences of all ages. The talented young per-formers of the 2013 OPERA Iowa troupe are bass Brad Baron of Glen Rock, NJ; baritone Greg Jebaily of Florence, SC; tenor Robert Lilly of Houston, TX; soprano Amedee Moore of Dayton, OH, and sopra-no Andrea Shokery of Gahanna, OH.

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McFarland, Livingston visit capitolAs part of National Ag Day on March 19, Landi McFarland and Andrew Livingston of rural Ellston and Tingley, respectively, went to the Iowa capitol to speak with their legislators about issues important to ag-riculture. Shown are McFarland (seated) with Representative Jack Drake, Livingston and Representative Cecil Dolecheck.

One sure sign that spring has sprung is the advent of National Agriculture Week, which is be-ing celebrated across America as I write. It is, as Corn and Soybean Digest suggested, “a good time to refl ect on all the traditions and advancements that help make the U.S. agriculture industry second to none.” It’s a signal accomplishment that American agriculture produces “more grain, more effi ciently on less land.” There are, said the Di-gest, 2.2 million farms in the U.S. with about 922 million acres in pro-duction, with an average farm size of around 450 acres. Even more signifi cant, there are some 375,000 farms with annual gross sales ex-ceeding $100,000 per year. Only about 17 percent of all farms, these farms account for over 80 percent of total ag sales annually. The Ag-riculture Council of America notes that each American farmer feeds more than 144 people! The Council gives a cogent rea-son why we should all celebrate agriculture. “Agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and wear on a daily basis. But too few people truly understand this con-tribution. This is particularly the case in our schools, where students may only be exposed to agriculture if they enroll in related vocational training. By building awareness, the Agriculture Council of America is encouraging young people to consider career opportunities in ag-riculture.” Also, during Ag Day and Ag Week, we can encourage Ameri-cans to: “Understand how food and fi ber products are produced; value the essential role of agriculture in maintaining a strong economy, and appreciate the role agriculture plays in providing safe, abundant and affordable products.” But, back to some of those co-gent farm stats from Corn and Soy-bean Digest: • 95 percent of the farms and ranches are operated by farm families as individuals, as well as by family partnerships and family corporations, usually multi-genera-tional.

BY MIKE AVITT Tingley was platted by a town company when the Humeston and Shenandoah railroad built their line through northern Ringgold county in 1882. Many of the early residents of Tingley came from the erstwhile village of Eugene, located about halfway between Tingley and the future town of Shannon City. Eu-gene had a population of about 30 and had a store, post offi ce and church. The origin of Tingley’s name is outlined in “A History of Tin-gley, Iowa 1883-1983.” William Tingley Cornwall came with his parents in 1856 to a farm near the Union-Ringgold county line. Later, a township and a post offi ce were named for him. This is the same Cornwall family who donated the

pioneer home now located at the Ringgold County Pioneer Center in Ellston. Ringgold Roots, a publication of the Ringgold County Genealog-ical Society, covered Tingley’s ear-ly years in its April 1983 edition. There is specifi c information about businesses, churches and fraternal societies from the years 1881 to October 1886, but the source of the information isn’t given. One detail that caught my eye is a statement saying the origi-nal Christian Church, which still stands in northeast Tingley, was built in 1882. The Tingley centen-nial book says the Christians were still in the planning stage in Octo-ber 1882. This week’s picture comes from the Clair Heyer collection. The gentleman third from the right

Snapshots of History

Heyer Brothers Store in Tingley about 1905. is Clair’s uncle, Fred, and Clair’s father, John, is fourth from right. Fred and John had come to Tin-gley from Ridgeway, MO in 1901 and in 1903 bought a general store calling it Heyer Brothers. The rest of the Heyer family eventually moved to Tingley, and Clair was born there in 1910. Clair attended school in Tingley but graduated from high school in Waterloo. He worked in Iowa and Illinois until he and his wife Hazel retired to Tingley in 1973. Clair’s entire life was recorded in photographs. Dozens and dozens of Clair’s photos appear in the Tingley cen-tennial book. We’ll be looking at some more of Clair’s pictures in the near future, and I’ll try to fi nd some information on Tingley that wasn’t included in the centennial book.

American agriculture is ‘second to none’

• The U.S. agriculture indus-try employs more than 21 million people to produce, process, sell and trade the nation’s food and fi ber, or about 15 percent of the total U.S. workforce. • There are over 300,000 wom-en who are the primary managers of farm operations in the United States, an increase of nearly 30 percent just in the past decade. • The sale of crops accounts for approximately 58 percent of the total gross receipts received by farmers in the U.S., while the sale of livestock products account for about 42 percent. • It takes the average consumer less than 40 days to earn enough disposable income to pay for all the food that is consumed at home and away from home during the entire year. By contrast, it takes about 100 days to earn enough income to pay federal, state and local taxes annu-ally. Farmers received just under 16 cents of every consumer dol-lar spent on food, and one acre of wheat will yield about 40 bushels and will produce over 2,000 loaves of bread. If the farmer is paid $6.50 per bushel for wheat from the farm, the wheat cost in a loaf of bread is only about 18 cents per loaf out of a retail value of about $2.99 per loaf. So, the effi ciency of modern agriculture is beyond question, and it is high time Americans realized that and showed support for the source of the best and least expen-sive food supply on earth! I’ll see ya!

In case you didn’t know, March was National Nutrition Month. Yes, you are right. There is a month for everything now. Consider extend-ing good nutrition beyond one month into the whole year. Even better… turn good nutrition into a lifestyle! One of the most basic and helpful ways to jumpstart eating healthier is to read the nutrition labels on everything you buy. The American Dietetic Association of-fered the following wisdom to sup-port their favorite month: Food labels are broken up into sections to make it easy for you to read and understand the nutrition found on a particular food item. Always start with how many serving are in the package. Then you can look at what is a serving (1/2 cup, one package etc). You will fi nd information eas-ily about the calories, how many servings in that package (they of-ten have more than one) and other key information about fat content, vitamins, sodium, cholesterol and fi ber. “When scanning the shelves at the grocery store it’s important for consumers to notice that the healthiest food often has the least

RCPH oberved nutrition month

marketing muscle behind it. It’s the processed, packaged junk food for-tifi ed with vitamins and fi ber that screams for attention,” explains Katie Routh, RD, LD, of Mount Ayr. “Choosing fresh fruits, veg-etables and whole grains will help to displace the processed foods in your diet, and will help make your food selections in general very simple.” Ringgold County Public Health (RCPH) continues their work on a Community Transformation Grant to reduce the impact of chronic diseases. During the course of this work many local residents with healthy lifestyles have become evident. The methods they use to stay healthy are usually time test-ed, simple yet not easy, but worth it in the long run. Be active. Eat and sleep well. Drink plenty of water. Get at least a yearly check-up with your local health care provider. If you would like more infor-mation on walking, biking, active living or healthy eating call Ring-gold County Public Health at 641-464-0691 or visit us on the web at www.rcph.net and www.facebook.com/rstop.

A new four-part series of fact sheets on contract grazing for cattle is now available on the Iowa Beef Center (IBC) website. Two Iowa State University Extension and Outreach specialists are Iowa representatives to the specialized working group within the Green Lands, Blue Water project that developed the new resource. Iowa State Extension beef program specialist Joe Sellers said he and small farms specialist Andy Lar-son worked with project members from Wisconsin and Minnesota to identify needs and information for those who graze cattle. “Our group has been working on these fact sheets as a source of assistance to graziers and cattle owners who use custom grazing in their management schemes,” Sellers said. “As cow numbers in-crease and available pasture acres decrease, we want people to recog-nize and learn more about options for their operations.” One such option is the develop-ment of working partnerships with other producers to access pasture through contract grazing. Each of the four new fact sheets focuses

Contract grazing fact sheets now available

on one topic related to contract grazing: contract grazing basics, evaluating land suitability, rental and lease agreements, and contract grazing rates. The fact sheets can be viewed, download and printed at no cost from these links: 1) The Basics of Contract Graz-ing (http://www.iowabeefcenter.org/information/ContractGrazing-1Basics.pdf) 2) Evaluating Land Suitability for Grazing Cattle (http://www.iowabeefcenter.org/information/ContractGrazing2LandEval.pdf) 3) Pasture Rental and Lease Agreements (http://www.iowa-beefcenter.org/information/Con-tractGrazing3Leases.pdf) 4) Rates Charged for Contract Grazing Arrangements (http://www.iowabeefcenter.org/informa-tion/ContractGrazing4Rates.pdf) These fact sheets can be used to supplement existing grazing-relat-ed information on the IBC website, specifi cally under “Cattle Grazing Survey 2007” http://www.iowa-beefcenter.org/research_projects.html.

The Delta Dental of Iowa Foun-dation has donated 106,000 tooth-brushes, toothpaste and fl oss to the I-Smile Program, which helps connect Iowa children in need with dental care and services. MATU-RA will receive a portion of the donation for children in Ringgold county. According to the Surgeon Gen-eral’s Oral Health in America Re-port, tooth decay is the single most common chronic childhood dis-ease. “This donation is a small step to ensure that every child in Iowa has their very own tooth-brush, toothpaste and fl oss,” said Donn Hutchins, president of the Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation. “Starting and maintaining good oral health habits at a young age is very important and aligns with the Foundation’s long-term goal that every Iowa child age 0-12 will be cavity-free by 2020.”

MATURA receives oral health donation for Ringgold children

“We are thankful to the Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation for this generous donation,” said Dr. Bob Russell, state dental director for the Iowa Department of Pub-lic Health. “The I-Smile program strives to connect Iowa children to the dental services they need to grow up happy and healthy.” I-Smile was created by the Iowa Department of Public Health, the Iowa Department of Human Services, the University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics and the Iowa Dental Asso-ciation. The “dental home” team includes dentists who provide treatment and defi nitive evalua-tion, as well as other health profes-sionals such as dental hygienists, physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, physician assis-tants and dietitians who provide oral screenings, education, antici-patory guidance and preventive services as needed.

The Iowa Department of Ag-riculture and Land Stewardship today certifi ed the results from the Iowa sheep assessment refer-endum that was held February 25 to March 15 of all eligible Iowa sheep producers. The assessment will stay at 10 cents per head after a simple majority of producers that voted did not support raising the assessment to 25 cents per head. The second question on the referendum which would have al-lowed the Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board, beginning in 2016, to change the assessment rate by fi ve cents every three years, was also defeated. Any producer who is actively engaged within this state in the business of producing or marketing

Sheep producers reject assessment increase

sheep or wool and who receives in-come from the production of sheep or wool was eligible to participate in the referendum. In addition to the current assess-ment of 10 cents per head on each sheep sold by a producer, there is also an assessment of two cents per pound of wool sold by a pro-ducer which was not impacted by the referendum. The Iowa Sheep and Wool promotion board is gov-erned by Iowa Code Chapter 182, which was initially passed in 1985 and was updated last year to allow for the referendum to increase the assessment rate. In accordance with Iowa Code, all costs incurred to hold the ref-erendum will be paid by the Iowa Sheet Industry Association.

A new state-by-state audit fund-ed by the United Soybean Board (USB) aims to support poultry and livestock farmers by helping them keep track of environmental rules and regulations. The 2012 Envi-ronmental Regulatory Audit of Animal Agriculture helps poultry and livestock farmers by providing information about water-quality regulations, air-quality regulations, discharge restrictions and general permitting information plus facts about state and federal environ-mental assistance programs. USB commissioned the audit to help fellow farmers involved in animal agriculture wade through what can be a complicated web of regulatory language and restric-tions. Having this information will not only assist these farmers with their own operations, but could help them improve relations with their communities and neighbors. “This report needs to be read

Soy checkoff compiles environmental regs

by soybean farmers and poultry and livestock farmers,” says Laura Foell, soybean farmer and USB director from Schaller. “It’s im-portant for us as soybean farmers to understand what the impacts of these environmental regulations are for the U.S. poultry and live-stock sectors, who are our number one consumers of soy meal.” The report covers a number of topics, including federal regula-tions governing concentrated ani-mal feeding operations (CAFOs). At the state level, it addresses water-quality regulations, air-qual-ity requirements, discharge restric-tions and general permitting infor-mation. The audit features quick refer-ence tables that summarize regula-tions and assistance programs at the end of each state report. For more information on the United Soybean Board, visit www.unitedsoybean.org

NWMS, ICAN partner Northwest Missouri State Uni-versity is partnering with the Iowa College Access Network (ICAN) to bring comprehensive college and career readiness programming and resources to students and par-ents in communities across Iowa, and to support initiatives around the state that support economic growth through increased train-ing and education of Iowa’s future workforce. ICAN’s programs and services are developed and presented by ICAN’s highly trained represen-tatives on topics such as high

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Name G FGA FGM FG% 3PA 3PM 3P% FTA FTM FT% Pts Pts/G OReb DReb Tot Reb Reb/G Assists Steals Blocks TO Dylan Doman SR 24 90 40 44.4 20 6 30.0 14 9 64.3 95 4.0 6 36 42 1.8 74 44 2 28Braydee Poore SR 24 291 145 49.8 85 31 36.5 86 54 62.8 375 15.6 33 107 140 5.8 86 44 23 42Austin Quick SR 24 88 21 23.9 38 13 34.2 13 7 53.8 62 2.6 11 27 38 1.6 19 13 4 20Jake Still SR 23 343 159 46.4 110 29 26.4 99 62 62.6 409 17.8 39 139 178 7.7 85 45 33 42John Triggs SR 23 153 90 58.8 0 0 0.0 52 25 48.1 205 8.9 72 81 153 6.7 15 13 3 19Jack Jones JR 24 74 39 52.7 15 3 20.0 15 12 80.0 93 3.9 9 7 16 0.7 18 16 3 8Casey Paxon JR 20 24 8 33.3 2 0 0.0 6 2 33.3 18 0.9 1 6 7 0.4 7 4 0 7Weston Schnoor JR 11 5 0 0.0 2 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 2 2 0.2 0 2 0 0Jake Sobotka JR 5 16 9 56.3 0 0 0.0 22 10 45.5 28 5.6 7 7 14 2.8 0 2 2 2Zach Vanderfl ught JR 6 3 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 2 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 2 4 0.7 0 0 0 0Hagan Willis JR 11 5 3 60.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 6 0.5 2 1 3 0.3 0 3 0 0Lincoln Martin SO 15 15 9 60.0 0 0 0.0 4 3 75.0 21 1.4 5 5 10 0.7 1 4 0 0Riley Weehler SO 11 3 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 2 1 50.0 1 0.1 1 6 7 0.6 4 4 0 2Jed McCreary FR 16 35 13 37.1 0 0 0.0 22 12 54.5 38 2.4 19 22 41 2.6 2 2 1 8TEAM 16-8 1145 536 46.8 272 82 30.1 337 197 58.5 1351 56.3 207 448 655 27.3 311 196 71 178

2012-13 Mount Ayr Raiders

Season stats have been compiled for the 2012-2013 Raider basketball season. The Raiders posted a season re-cord of 16-8 and reached the district fi nals in post-season play. Senior Braydee Poore broke the 1,000 point mark for his career and ended with 1,057 points, good for second on the all-time career scoring list behind Drew Larsen’s 1,111. Poore was named to the Class 1A all-state third team by the Iowa Newspaper Association, and he and fellow senior Jake Still were unanimous fi rst-team all Pride of Iowa conference selections. Poore and Still were also named to the KAAN Radio 2013 All-Star team.

Season stats released for Raider basketball

Jacob Still, Taylor Still and Braydee Poore were named to the 2013 KAAN All Star Basketball Teams. Area honorees were recognized at an awards banquet in Trenton, MO on March 20.

KAAN All-Stars honored

The Raiders were led by a tal-ented group of seniors. This senior class accounted for 85 percent of total points, 84 percent of total re-bounds, 90 percent of total assists, 81 percent of total steals and 92 percent of all blocked shots. Still led the Raiders in several categories: scoring (409 points), free throws (62), scoring average (17.8 points/game), defensive re-bounds (139), total rebounds (178), rebounding average (7.7 rebounds /game) and blocked shots (33). Poore was second in scoring (375), free throws (54), scoring average (15.6 points/game) and defensive rebounds (107). Still and Poore paced the Raid-ers with 85 and 84 assists respec-

tively. Another senior, Johnathan Triggs, led the team in offensive rebounds (72) and was second in total rebounds (153) and rebound average (6.7 rebounds/game) and third in scoring (205) and scoring average (8.9 points/game). Still, Poore and fellow senior Dylan Doman led the team in steals. Still recorded 45 while Poore and Doman had 44 each. One underclassman, junior Jack Jones, saw action in all 24 games. Jones fi nished the season fi fth in scoring (93). Other Raiders seeing action in all 24 games included Do-man, Poore and senior Austin Quick. Still and Triggs played in 23 games. Junior Casey Paxson played in 20.

Heading into next season, several Raiders will need to step up to fi ll the void left by the graduated seniors. However, Jones and Paxson saw action in the majority of games, and junior Jake Sobotka is expected to see more quality playing time next year after being hampered by a left-over football injury this season. In addition, freshman Jed McCreary fi nished with 38 points and 41 rebounds in his 16 game appearances. Other underclassmen saw quality playing time, including sophomore Lincoln Martin (15 games), juniors Weston Schnoor (11) and Hagan Willis (11) and sophomore Riley Weehler (11). Junior Zach Vander-fl ught played in six games.

Team awards were presented at the Mount Ayr wrestling team banquet held recently. Shown above (L-R) are Wyatt Jackson, Most Improved; Trevor Anderson, Most Improved and Rookie of the Year; Eric Freed, Most Valuable; Joe Ricker, Fastest Fall (eight seconds) and Shane Swank, Spark Plug. Freed was also recognized for having the most takedowns (72), most falls (26), most escapes (26) and most near-fall points (101). Swank had the most reversals (22). Captains were also named for next season: Jacob Beamgard, Erik Freed and Dawson Knapp.

Wrestling award winners recognized

Some spring sports participants were left out of stories previewing spring sports last week. Holly Karr is a member of the Raiderette golf team, joining Cait-lin Giles. Two more boys have reported to the Raider golf team. They are Ethan Pollock and Nathan Rob-erts. Eighth grade boys left off last week’s the middle school track roster include Heath Andresen, Cal Daughton, Gavin Dine, Jacob Gar-rett, Logan Kelley, Triston Ackley, Mike James, Brent Bounds, Noah Smith and Jacob Vanbuskirk.

Additions to spring sports rosters

Two events planned during annual Prairie Chicken Day The 10th annual Prairie Chick-en Day will be held Saturday, April 6 at 6 a.m. Outdoor enthusiasts are encour-aged to meet at the Kellerton Bird Conservation Area to enjoy the greater prairie chickens as they boom and dance. Viewing will begin at fi rst light (approximately 6 a.m.), which is the best time to see the birds. The viewing area is located two miles west of Kellerton on High-way 2 and about one-and-a-half miles south on 300th Avenue. Iowa DNR Wildlife Diversity Program and AmeriCorps person-nel will be on hand to answer ques-tions. Attendees are encouraged to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. The viewing area is open grassland with little protec-

tion from the elements. The prairie chickens will be about 200 yards from the viewing stand, so attendees should bring their own binoculars or spotting scopes. One commercial scope will be available along with the possibility of a few extras for those who do not have the equipment. Coffee, juice and donuts will be available at the viewing stand for all who attend. For more information, contact Josh Rusk at 515-238-7194. GPS Easter Egg hunt In conjunction with the Prai-rie Chicken Day event, Ringgold County Conservation (RCC) is holding a free GPS Egg Hunt Sat-urday, April 6 from 9-10 a.m. The hunt will take place at the Kellerton Bird Conservation viewing area. Participants will use Global Po-

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

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Graceland to add bowling, wrestling, drum line as collegiate activities this fall Graceland University in Lam-oni has announced the addition of three student activities. Collegiate bowling, wrestling and drum line will be available to student partici-pants in fall 2013.Bowling According to a press release, the new program aims to revitalize college bowling, focusing on the recreational side of this sport and cultivating greater awareness of bowling on Graceland campus. “A truly appealing aspect of college bowling is that it brings all levels of student-athletes to work, play and compete together,” said GU athletic director Jeff Falkner. “Besides, college bowling is a re-warding experience that teaches essential skills the student can use the rest of his or her life.” Graceland University will offer a bowling scholarship. Nearly 100 colleges and universities across

the country offer bowling scholar-ships. Collegiate bowling has grown in popularity and prestige under College Bowling USA and more recently with the formation of the USBC Collegiate program, bowl-ing’s national intercollegiate gov-erning body. Wrestling According to Falkner, wrestling at Graceland has a strong tradi-tion and impressive history of past success. Retired Graceland coach Jerry Hampton recorded 238 wins and only 87 losses in 22 seasons (from 1960 to 1982) and never lost a conference championship. “We are proud to offer another option to accommodate the grow-ing demand among student-athletes to compete in this popular sport,” said Kirk Bjorland, vice president for enrollment management. “It only makes sense that the univer-

sity is bringing back the wrestling program, and we are proud that GU has made the decision to do it during the coming fall 2013 se-mester.” Wrestling has grown tremen-dously not only in the state of Iowa but across the country over the past few years, and GU is happy to bring the program back. The state of Iowa has long been considered an amateur wrestling hotbed, birth-place to some all-time mat greats and four college wrestling pro-grams that have won NCAA Divi-sion I team titles. The program is expected to attend many of the nation’s top events as it grows. Graceland University is now conducting a nationwide search for a wrestling coach.Drum line According to the press release, drum line is an art that perfectly combines the love of music with the rhythmic sound of fans’ enter-tainment. For incoming freshmen

to Graceland, it means immediately having a big group of friends who share a common passion. Students from different schools and differ-ent skills are expected to become part of the university drum line. Scholarships are available. “An important goal we have is to perfect a performance, achieve a high level of excellence and qual-ity and give the students a strong sense of accomplishment,” stated Frank Perez, director of bands at Graceland. “The sound of click-clacks on a drum is all it takes to make stu-dents and fans pay attention to the fi eld. Drum line’s slick choreogra-phy, skills, style and charisma will bring many interested students and their peers to our campus in La-moni,” added Bjorland. For more information about any of the new fall offerings or about existing programs at Graceland, contact Bjorland at 641-784-5110 or email to kirk.bjorland@grace-land.edu.

More than 8,000 Iowa taxpay-ers helped wildlife conservation last year by making a donation to the Fish and Wildlife Fund on their tax form, marking the second year in a row donations had increased. Stephanie Shepherd, diversity wildlife coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), hopes that continues in 2013. “The number of Iowans donat-ing to the fund is growing after a 10-year downward trend,” said Shepherd. “Those donations go directly to research and habitat de-velopment for some of Iowa’s most vulnerable animal species, so the funds are very important for natu-ral resources.” Shepherd said Iowans donated $132,000 last spring when com-pleting their 2011 tax forms. The Fish and Wildlife Fund, known popularly as the “Chicka-dee Check-off,” is a mechanism the Iowa Legislature created in the 1980s for Iowa citizens to donate to wildlife conservation on the Iowa state tax form. At its height, Iowans donated more than $200,000 annually to the fund. One of the main reasons for the decline was the increase in electronic tax fi ling, she said. “It is easy to pass over or forget, and many tax preparers may not remember to ask whether a client wants to donate,” said Shepherd. “It may be up to the taxpayer to remind their preparer, or check out the completeness of the electronic

Iowa taxpayers increase donations to wildlife in 2012

program they are using.” Donating on the tax form is easy: simply write the amount to donate next to the Fish and Wild-life Check-Off (line 58a on Form 1040) and the sum is either auto-matically deducted from the refund or added to the amount owed. As with all charitable contributions, the amount is deductible from next year’s taxes. “Our goal in 2013 is for more people to fi nd the check off on their electronic tax form, and to increase donations by 10 percent,” said Shepherd. All proceeds from the check-off support the Department of Natu-ral Resources’ Wildlife Diversity Program, responsible for protect-ing more than 1,000 fi sh and wild-life species in the state. Money from the check-off helps improve wildlife habit, fund research stud-ies, support the reintroduction of threatened or endangered species, and much more.

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(Above and right) The months of February and March have been action packed at Mount Ayr Sites for Learning (SFL) with 65 fi rst and second grade students partici-pating in basketball after school. SFL works with volunteers to lead the basketball program with the focus being on introducing basic fundamentals while having lots of fun. SFL director Marci Bjus-trom gives special thanks to all the great parent volunteers who volunteered each week. (Below) The Diagonal Sites for Learn-ing (SFL) cheerleaders take their cheerleading and dance routine on the road to the Tingley Meal Site. The girls performed a dance routine that they learned and did several of their favorite cheers for patrons at the site. The girls then enjoyed visiting with the com-munity while enjoying a delicious lunch at the meal site. A special thank you to April Shields for cho-reographing the dance routine and to Josie Mobley for coaching them throughout the year.

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BOWLING NEWSBluegrass League

Week March 19, 2013Team Standings

Hutton Construction 36-12Sassy Strikers 29-19Ragamuffi ns 25-23Giggling Girlies 21-27Rolling Stones 19-29Lucky Ladies 14-34 High games (150 and over): Ron-da Smith 182; Katie Still 181, 174; Deb Ayres 179; Roberta Owens 168, 159; Brenda Woody 155, 167; Linda Phipps 165; Merna King 154, 160; Renda Smith 155; Denise Golliday 152. High series (450 and over): Katie Still 498, Merna King 462, Brenda Woody 461, Roberta Owens 457, Deb Ayres 454. Thursday Men’s League

Week of March 21, 2013Team Standings

IWIWALB 30-18DAE 28-20Hy-Vee 27.5-20.5Lucky Lanes 21-27Lefty’s 19-29Suds & Gutters 18.5-29.5 High games (200 and over): Jer-emy Shelley 256; Mike Hall 242; Russ Stewart 241; Travis Hartman 232; Eric Dolecheck 231; Eric Ehlen 213, 228; Chad Bals 203, 228; Jodie Maben 223, 223; Bill Calhoon 223; Rick Hower 218; Ron Sickels 217; Richard Swank 213; Wiley Main 207, 212; Kirk Golliday 208; Scott Myer 205; Rick Fox 204. High series (600 and over): Jodie Maben 635, Eric Ehlen 622, Chad Bals 621.

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By Joe WilkinsonIowa Department of Natural Resources Spring turkey hunters in Iowa should notice more birds. Dry con-ditions in 2012 meant a better hatch and fi rst year of growth for poults. As about 45,000 hunters head to the woods through April and May, that can’t hurt their chances of tak-ing a gobbler. “Across the state, we had about a 25-percent increase. North cen-tral and northeast Iowa had great increases in reproduction,” notes DNR forest research biologist Todd Gosselink. East central and southwest Iowa showed healthy increases, too…though with fewer overall sightings. Poults with hens, sighted by DNR fi eld staff and other coop-erators during the late summer, together with fall bowhunter ob-servations, and eventual harvest of year old ‘jakes’ the next spring help formulate Iowa’s hatch and brood success index. Iowa’s turkey season opens with the April 6-14 youth season. The regular seasons fall in line af-ter that; April 15-18, April 19-23, April 24-30 and May 1-19 for com-bination shotgun/bow tag holders. A resident archery only tag is good throughout the four regular sea-sons. Spring turkey hunting coincides with pre-breeding and then breed-ing activity of the big gamebirds. With snow on the ground through-out much of Iowa this week, Gos-selink is getting inquiries about the effect of a ‘late spring.’ Checking weather patterns for past years, though, he calls 2013--so far--a normal spring. “They’ll strut this time of year. What we hope for is that when seasons begin, with an increase in temperatures, it will really get the turkey activity going, full steam.” The expansion again this year of the youth season might seem like an early start. However, the April 15 opening day of the fi rst regu-lar season is on track with season openers in past years. That nine-day youth season provides extra one-on-one men-toring with hunters under 16. In earlier years, bad weather over the shorter four-day season could erase a young hunter’s chances to head to

Spring turkey hunting outlook promising

the woods…especially if he or she could only go out on the weekend. Youth hunter numbers set a record in 2012, with 3,450 licenses sold. And with the longer season, har-vest success was up a whopping 81 percent. Across all spring seasons in 2012, hunters holding 45,159 li-censes in Iowa harvested 10,457 bearded turkeys. An Iowa resident may obtain up to two spring turkey tags, so long as one is for use in Season 4. Ahead of your fi rst forays into the turkey woods during the sea-son, turkey experts urge you to do some subtle scouting. “Go out in the evening. Often, turkeys will gobble before they fl y up to roost,” suggests Gosselink…keeping a comfortable distance, with little vegetative cover. With snow cover, though, turkeys may still be clustered as they feed dur-ing the day.

What calls to use? “I will have a couple of mouth calls, a box call and an owl hooter,” suggests wildlife technician Jim Coffey. “Be confi dent with what you use; practice to build that con-fi dence…even if you don’t use it each time out.” And while the crack of dawn gobble is exciting, it is not the only time to pursue Iowa’s biggest game bird. “There’s nothing wrong with heading out at 10 or 11 a.m. That turkey lives where you hunt. He will still be there!” reminds Cof-fey….again noting that early sea-son vegetation might have you sit-ting still, to minimize movement and being detected by the eagle-eyed game bird.

Iowans will be registering about 235,000 boats between now and April 30, using a new system that has a new look and includes regis-tration information, title and decals on one document. Boat owners should bring their current registration when they re-new as the new system requires additional information, much of which is on the current registra-tion including make, model, model year, hull identifi cation number, boat length, width and more. Boat registrations are handled by Iowa’s county recorders in the county where the individual re-sides. Nonresidents who register their boat in Iowa will go to the county where the boat is primarily used. Owners who purchased a boat from a private seller and are regis-tering it in their name should bring the signed registration and to make sure the title is signed over to them, if applicable. Boat registrations are good for three years.

Boat registrations due April 30

Lakes and ponds in southwest Iowa are starting to open up. Now is a good opportunity to catch ice out channel catfi sh with shad sides or cut bait. Early season crappie fi shing has already started in the canals at Lake Manawa. Most of the small lakes are com-pletely ice free. The larger lakes have areas of both open water and ice cover. Some boat access is pos-sible. Water levels are usually 20 to 30 inches low. Access is easy at most ramps. Fogle Lake S.W.A. (Ring-gold): The water level lowered last fall to allow boat ramp repairs. Currently the water is six feet low but the ramp extension allows easy access. Three Mile Lake (Union): Large patches of open water oc-cur over the lower half of the lake. The remainder is thin and will likely melt during the next warm-ing trend.

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Area lakes, ponds starting to open up

Twelve Mile Creek Lake (Union): The lower third of the lake is open. Thin ice remains over the rest. Green Valley Lake (Union): Approximately half of the lake is open. The water level is currently three feet low. The main ramp is easy to use. Summitt Lake (Union): The

replacement spillway was com-pleted last July. Very little runoff has reached the lake. Currently the lake is at least six feet low and no ramps are usable. Little River Watershed Lake (Decatur): The shoreline stabi-lization and fi sh habitat work has been completed. The water level is currently eight feet low and will be allowed to rise as runoff per-mits. None of the ramps are usable. Most of the fi sh habitat is partially exposed. Sands Timber Lake (Block-ton Reservoir - Taylor): The lake was drained to allow completion of water quality improvements.

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Ringgold County Supervisors Proceedings

March 18, 2013 The city council met in regu-lar session on March 18, 2013 with Mayor Solliday calling the meeting to order at 6 p.m. Roll call was taken with the following members present: Greene, Stutzman, Ricker, Cannon. Absent: Mathany. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Ricker, to approve the agenda. Ayes: Greene, Stutzman, Ricker, 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 Ricker, seconded by Greene, to dispense the reading of the minutes previously presented to council members and approve them as presented. Ayes: Greene, Stutzman, Ricker, Cannon. Nays: None. Vicki Sickels with Ringgold County Public Health requested city council authorization for SICOG staffer Becky Nardy to provide grant writing services which could help raise funds towards the walking trail project being developed. Sickels also urged members of the council to at-tend a special meeting, to be held on March 21, where interested parties will meet to brainstorm ideas and options in an effort to bring the trail project to fruition. A motion was made by Ricker, seconded by Greene, to authorize the Southern Iowa Council of Govern-ments to work with the “Trail Com-mittee” in writing grants for the trail project. Roll call vote: Greene – Yes, Stutzman – Yes, Ricker – Yes, Can-non - Yes. Carl Elshire brought updates in regard to the Booster Station Proj-ect progress, stating the DNR has completed their comment period, construction permit to be issued next, then steps to begin the bidding process will begin. He presented Amendment No. 2 to the profes-sional services agreement between the city and MSA due to necessary construction related services which includes: Bidding, Construction Administration, Construction Ob-servation, and Operational Phase Services; for an estimated $49,300. Action on the amendment will be on the next council agenda. Tim Newton of Divine Waste requested to be on the agenda, was present, passed around letters of rec-ommendation from commercial cus-tomers, and reiterated that his busi-ness wants to take care of the city’s residential garbage removal needs. Superintendent Wise Report: West section of streetscape lights are wired but still in need of some work to get them lit; potholes are be-ing fi lled with rock for a temporary repair while contact has been made with road repair companies to access the streets and make recommenda-tions so road work can be prioritized; preparations for land application of sludge is underway once weather per-mits; Healthy Iowans signs received and ready to get in place; Jeff Sickels to tear down old bathhouse, recon-nection of water to follow; getting cost estimates for valve replacement plans; dog kennel passed inspection and back in service; April 30 timeta-ble mandated for Water Distribution II Certifi cation, applications for test-ing have been submitted; and list of work prepared for crew while Wise is on vacation 21st – 26th. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Stutzman, to advertise to take bids to mow the old lake, air-port and other city properties. Roll call vote: Greene – Yes, Stutzman – Yes, Ricker – Yes, Cannon - Yes.____________________________ Continued on page 11

Mount Ayr City Council Proceedings

March 18, 2013 The Ringgold County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, March 18, 2013. The meet-ing was called to order at 9 a.m. with the following members present: Da-vid Inloes, Royce Dredge and Kraig Pennington. A motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge to approve the agenda mov-ing the Real Estate Acquisition Pol-icy and Fence Value Right of Way Policy to 2:30 p.m. AYES: Unani-mous. NAYS: None. A motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge to approve the previous min-utes. AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. Greg Sharp met with the board on behalf of the American Legion re-garding a property tax matter. Sharp is wondering why the American Le-gion is being assessed property taxes when they are a non-profi t organi-zation per the Iowa Code. When he talked to county assessor Neil Mor-gan, he said he has the authority to assess property taxes based on bar sales. Sharp said all money made is non-profi t. He went on to say if the organization qualifi es with the IRS for non-profi t, they qualify with the

state. Assessor Morgan said the or-ganization can appeal prior to April 1 through the assessor’s offi ce. Sharp mentioned the American Legion pur-chases everything locally; all money raised is put back into community. County engineer Zach Gunsolley met with the board to provide up-dates for secondary roads. He men-tioned the last day for Curt Jackson will be March 29. Gunsolley asked the board if they would like him to set up a question-and-answer session with Scott Stephens with RUAN re-garding bonding. The board is not interested at this time. The DOT pro-gram and budget will be approved next week. Gunsolley reviewed the DOT program and projects proposed for the county fi ve-year plan. Gun-solley asked if the board would ap-prove moving the J45 paving project up to FY15 from FY17 in order to avoid rising costs. The county would borrow ahead on the farm-to-market account to complete this project. Decatur county is okay to move the project up two years. Both Inloes and Dredge are in favor of moving the project. Pennington is worried about borrowing ahead so far. Gunsolley noted that 27 counties throughout Iowa have now bonded for road re-pairs. Gunsolley and the board also reviewed quotes from Denco for road repair (crack fi ll) for J20, P46, J55, P27 and P33; quotes will be ap-proved at the March 25 meeting. Sheriff Mike Sobotka met with the board to discuss mowing at the jail. Greg Cannon has been doing this in the past. Cannon will mow for the same price as in the past; there-fore, an ad will not need to be sub-mitted requesting bids. A lot of the public questioned why Spencer was not mowing it on behalf of the coun-ty as a county employee. Sobotka is asking guidance from the board. The board will talk to Spencer to see if he has time to mow at the jail.

RESOLUTION RC13–67 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby ap-proves to appoint Debra Clark for a three-year term on the Southern Iowa Rural Housing Authority Board. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 18, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–68 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby states the following Fence Value for formal Right of Way purchases by second-ary roads department: The fence value: Corner of brace post = $30.00 Brace = $26.00 Labor to set two corners and brace = $35.00 Fence line = 5 barb $15.00/rod Fence line = 32” woven $18.27/rod Fence value will be based on ex-isting fence, and THEREFORE, a motion was made by Kraig Pennington and seconded by Royce Dredge stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 18, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–69 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby ap-proves to establish a new Real Estate Acquisition Policy for the year 2013. For any formal ROW easement pur-chases made during Calendar Year 2013: The Median Ag Land Sales Price in Ringgold county for 2013 is $70/per CSR point. The Median Ag Land Assessed Value in Ringgold County for 2013 is $13.35/per CSR point.

$70 $13.35 = 5.243 factor The purchase price for Ag Land Easements will be 5.243 times the assessed value. Assess value is 2011 assessed as 2013 assessed is not available. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Royce Dredge and sec-onded by Kraig Pennington stating such.

The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 18, 2013.

RESOLUTION RC13–70 WHEREAS, the Ringgold Coun-ty Board of Supervisors hereby ap-proves the claims that will be issued on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. THEREFORE, a motion was made by Royce Dredge and sec-onded by Kraig Pennington stating such. The vote on the resolution: AYES: Unanimous. NAYS: None. ATTEST: Amanda Waske, audi-tor. Passed and approved March 18, 2013. A Tech Inc., courthouse quarterly fi re panel monitoring, $89.85. Alliant Energy, conservation/Di-agonal utilities, $470.15. Bankers Leasing Company, public health copier lease/overage charge, $199.50. Bentley, Alan, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Bickel, Brian, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Bickel, Marla, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Big & Small Inc., salt trucking, $2,729.75. Bob Barker Co., jail supplies, $128.18. Cannon, Debra, treasurer/auditor ISAC, $424.24 Cargill Salt Division, salt, $1,826.06. Chat Mobility, CA cell phone, $77.36. City of Mount Ayr, RCSS water, $86.00. Clearview Homes, jail meals, $4,316.00. Clifton, Larson, Allen LLP, coun-ty audit services, $50.00. CNH Capital/Vetter, parts, $66.71. Community Grocers Inc., public health PAT LYF meeting expense, $58.82. Dittmer, Sarah, attorney tran-scripts misc. and trial, $92.50. Dollar General - Charged Sales, RCSS custodial, $44.10. Dredge, Royce, supervisor mile-age/ISAC spring school, $197.19. England, Melinda, township trustee meetings/assessor mileage, $123.23. Farm Plan/NAPA, parts/battery supplies/fi lters, $106.63. Glendenning Motor Co., parts, $12.60. Great Western Bank, jail phone cards, $604.23. Green Valley Pest Control, public health extermination SVCS, $44.00. Gunsolley, Zach, parking fees, $4.25. Hallett Materials, sand and truck-ing, $3,575.12. Henderson Truck Equipment, parts, $563.95. Holmes, Colby, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Hy-Vee Accounts Receivable, RCSS groceries/Chef Charles ex-pense, $257.72. IA Immunization Coalition, public health 2013 coalition dues, $100.00. IA Public Health Association, public health registration fees for gov. conference, $200.00. Inland Truck Parts Co., parts, $124.06. Inloes, David, supervisor ISAC spring school, $131.70. Iowa DOT, sign post, $1,178.94 Iowa Prison Industries, conserva-tion shelter signage, $250.80. ISACA Treasurer, auditor ISACA membership dues, $225.00. Ivans Inc., public health Medicare connect fee, $49.99. Jacobson Supply LLC, snow blades, $1,272.00. Jeff French Snow Removal, snow removal, $870.00. Karr, Danny, public health well plugging/chore service, $428.00. Koch Brothers, courthouse copier maintenance agreement, $324.00. Lawson Products Inc., parts, $712.59. Legislative Services Agency, sheriff code of Iowa books, $250.00. Lumbard, Spencer, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Matthew Hudson Construction, RCSS construction, $1,600.00. McDonnell Appliance, jail sup-

plies, $44.86. Meyer Laboratory Inc., jail sup-plies/courthouse custodial supplies/conservation custodial, $503.50. Mobley, Glee, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Mobley, Ronald, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Morgan, Neil E., assessor mile-age/meals, $220.66. Mortensen Zimmerman, Kathryn, conservation postage, $22.50. Mosaic, mental health Feb. 2013, $285.21. Mount Ayr Farm & Home Inc., miscellaneous shop supplies, $44.46. Mount Ayr Record-News, E-911 budget publication/public health well plugging advertisement, $136.01. MTE Offi ce Center, auditor/trea-surer offi ce supplies, $207.99. NAPA Auto Parts, sheriff vehicle parts, $17.58. O’Halloran International, parts, $89.88. O’Kelly, Charles, township trust-ee meetings, $20.00. Offi ce Machines Co., RCSS/con-servation offi ce supplies, $745.89. Pioneer Products Inc., miscella-neous offi ce supplies, $1,293.82. Pitney Bowes Global Financial, courthouse postage, $52.67. Quill Corporation, public health bioterrorism supplies, $850.74. Radar Road Tec, sheriff radar cer-tifi cation, $245.00. Reasoner’s Garage Inc., grease, $254.40. Red Oak Welding Supply, weld-ing supplies, $236.16. Reliance Telephone Inc., jail phone cards, $500.00. Ringgold County Group Home, mental health Feb. 2013, $11,074.00. Rockmount Research & Alloys Inc., welding supplies, $372.59. Rusk, Al, medical examiner fees, $200.00. Schaeffer Mfg. Co., oil, $3,944.56. Schildberg Construction, rock, $25,102.81. Secretary of State, notary applica-tion, $30.00. Shirley & Dave’s Computers, VA printer, $101.00. Shopko, RCSS/conservation of-fi ce supplies, $120.50. Smith Oil Co., RCSS/conserva-tion fuel, $189.34. Smith, Gary, VA transportation/contracted hours/general relief con-tracted hours, $641.88. Southern Iowa Resources, mental health Feb. 2013, $75.00. Southern Iowa Rural Water As-sociation, conservation/Beaconsfi eld water, $85.00. Southwest Iowa Rural Elec-tric, conservation/Tingley utilities, $207.00. Stivers Ford, parts, $1,534.42. Swank, Mary, township trustee meetings, $20.00. Tyler Technologies, Inc., audi-tor install and confi gure system, $600.00. Ultramax, sheriff ammunition, $171.00. United Truck & Body Co., parts, $770.54. Upper Limits Teen Center, public health April rent, $450.00. Wallace, Wendell R., township trustee meetings, $20.00. Waske, Amanda, auditor ISAC spring school, $63.47. Windstream, supervisor/sheriff/public health/VA/assessor/auditor/EMA/DHS/CA phone service/Inter-net, $1,757.59. Windstream Communications Inc., public health phone mainte-nance contract, $45.81. Zep Manufacturing Co., miscel-laneous shop supplies, $393.24 Ziegler, parts/core returns, $6,462,79.

Report Total = $84,209.09FUND TOTALS RECAP

General Basic ................. $13,985.96General Supplemental ........... 445.00MH-DD Services ..............11,434.21Secondary Road ............... 53,885.93Case Management .............. 2,470.57Jail Sales Tax Account .......... 868.04Emergency Management......... 71.28Ringgold County K-9 Unit.... 140.00E-911 Surcharge ...................... 38.36Sheriff’s Commissary .......... 500.00Assessor ................................ 369.74

Grand Total = $84,209.09 There was no further business. A

motion was made by Kraig Penning-ton and seconded by Royce Dredge to adjourn the meeting at 4:30 p.m. DAVID INLOES ChairmanATTEST: AMANDA WASKE Ringgold County Auditor

Hickory Grove

Rose James • 464-2630

March 25 - Prayers and con-dolences go out to the families of Geri McDaniels and Jake Hunt. They will be missed by all. Vickie Jeanes had a fun week-end in the Ozarks with her two daughters, Lizzie Hanawalt and Abby Hawk. They returned home Monday of this week. Gene Motsinger was at the fu-neral visitation for Jake Hunt Sun-day. That evening Billi Adli and Molly brought goodies for Gene to enjoy. Monday evening of this week Gene visited with Darrell Holden and his son, Brad. Tuesday Walt and Beverly McGinnis took blood to the Omaha blood bank. They stayed overnight with Kim Foster and family. They also attended the band concert of which their granddaughter, Jas-mine Taylor, was a member. Ronnie and JoKaye Shields returned home after spending the winter in Mesa, AZ. Their fam-ily has kept them very busy the past week. Tuesday night Joe and Amanda Waske and Riley were there for supper. Wednesday Bren-non and Bailey Shields and Au-brey and Brynlea had lunch with them. Thursday Ronnie and Jo-Kaye drove to Murray and picked up Ally and Hannah Waske. That evening the family and Josh Waske and Ella were in Allendale, MO where they met Cricket Waske and all enjoyed supper together at the OldTowne Cafe. The three girls stayed overnight with Cricket and were back to the Shields home Fri-day. Ally and Hannah stayed that night with their great-grandparents, Ronnie and JoKaye. The two girls returned to their home in Murray the next day. That night, Satur-day, Ronnie and JoKaye met R.C. and Sheryol Rush at The Offi ce in Mount Ayr and enjoyed supper to-gether. Sunday dinner guests with the Shieldses were Brett Shields, Melissa Shennum, Amanda Larsen and Josh Waske. Monday night of this week Rod and Stacy Shields and JoKaye Shields attended the elementary music program at the Mount Ayr school. Hayden and Jackson Ruggles, Madison Shields and Harper Whittington were in the program. The children were allgreat-grandchildren of JoKaye. Susie Canatanzareti was in Mis-sion, TX Friday, March 15, with her mother, Rose James. They started for Iowa Sunday with a stopover in San Antonio and stayed two nights with Lewis (Nip) and Tey James. The next day they visited the Texas White House, which was the home of President Johnson near Johnson City. Susie and Rose arrived home in Iowa Wednesday evening.

Wishard Chapel

Carol McCreary • 464-3178

March 25 - Holy Week is being celebrated at Wishard Chapel with some special events planned. Wednesday night Bible study is as usual at 7 p.m. Thursday, Maundy Thursday will be observed with communion, prayer and a short message begin-ning at 7 p.m. Easter Sunday morning will begin with a breakfast beginning at 9:30 a.m. Regular service time will be worship at 10:30 a.m. More seating will be available so bring the family and worship with Wishard Chapel Community Church. Special music will be pro-vided by First Things First. The annual fi sh fry was a big success last Friday night. Over 200 guests attended and enjoyed the wonderful dinner. Sad news this week of the pass-ing of a beloved former pastor at Wishard Chapel. Rev Robert Shreve was involved in a head-on collision due to black ice. After two surgeries for head injuries, he passed on Sunday, March 24. He was pastor for the Wishard, Tingley and Ellston charge of the United Methodist Church in the early ‘70s and lived in Tingley. Bob’s wife, Margurite, and daughter, Barbara, were also injured in the accident and are recovering.

Beaconsfi eld

Phyllis Manning

March 25 - Rev. Raymond and Dola Doser of Lovilia visited Bea-consfi eld United Methodist Church Sunday, March 24, and Rev. Doser was guest speaker. Rev. Doser is the brother of Esther McAlexan-der. Mary Ann Smith attended the funeral of her aunt in Grant City, MO last Saturday. Eugene McAlexander reported that Beaconsfi eld received four inches of snow Saturday night and Sunday, which melted down to .35 of moisture. He also informed ev-eryone that the Beaconsfi eld area has received 40 inches of snow this winter. Eugene has a weather station which gathers weather in-formation for the National Weather Service of Johnston. The Beaconsfi eld United Meth-odist Church has a new Harmer chair lift, purchased with memorial monies. It replaces the old chair lift that was not reparable. The chair lift will carry a person from the lower entryway to the basement of the church. So if you are thinking of attending a “doing” at Beacons-fi eld, be assured that you can go to and from the basement without any trouble. Be advised that next Sunday, March 31, there will not be a church service at Beaconsfi eld United Methodist Church. The four-point charge-wide Easter service will be held at Kellerton United Methodist Church. The four-point charge in-cludes Tingley, Ellston, Beacons-fi eld and Kellerton United Meth-odist Churches.

March 25 - The Kellerton post offi ce has new hours of service. Full service hours are Monday-Friday from 12 to 4 p.m. with Sat-urday hours from 12 to 1:45 p.m. The post offi ce box/lobby section will be open 24 hours seven days a week. Any vandalism to the post offi ce and or the postal boxes will be a federal offense, as well as a community offense. Let us all work together to keep our local of-fi ce open and functioning. Evalee White spent Saturday with John and Dee Euritt. They had a ham dinner and also many games of Skip-Bo. Skip-Bo is be-coming more and more common at the Mount Ayr Health Care Center where Evalee resides. Evalee is enjoying the games and the new friends she is making. She loves bingo and the other card games. Howard and Rose Peterson of Beaconsfi eld were Tuesday after-noon callers of Judy Doolittle. Kay Doolittle was an evening visitor of Judy Wednesday. Kay Doolittle, Cathy Reed and Judy Doolittle met Penni Hewlett of Iowa City in Os-ceola Friday night for supper and enjoyed the Loretta Lynn concert. Rod and Deb Holmes, Teena Hash and Amber Richards joined them for the concert. Penni Hewlett was an overnight guest of Judy Doolit-tle Friday. Penni Hewlett and Judy Doolittle visited with Loreen Reed in Mount Ayr Health Care Satur-day morning.

Dick and Camille Jackson re-turned home Monday after a trip to Mesa, AZ to visit Camille’s mother, Florence Lawhead, who is recover-ing from a broken pelvis. On the way back to Iowa, they spent the weekend in Windsor, CO with Dave, Racinda, Cyan and Liam Godbold. They attended a Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Fort Collins and celebrat-ed Cyan’s seventh birthday which they missed two weeks before be-cause of snowstorms. Nicholas and Eleanor Jack-son of Des Moines spent Friday with Dick and Camille Jackson. They, along with Esther Jackson of Mount Ayr, attended an early Easter dinner Saturday held at the home of June and Bob Boles of Osceola. Other family members attending were Randy and Theresa Jackson of Des Moines, Joy Stout of Newton and Gabe, Jenny, Abi, Bekha, Rachel, Sam, Eli and Jon Swersie of Newton. Katie Still visited Tuesday with Jan Holmes and Kathryn Still and worked on the sisters’ computer. The sisters went to Mount Ayr on business during the afternoon. The sisters were Creston shoppers Wednesday. Thursday Jan, Kath-ryn, Katie, Cassie and Jesse Still were Des Moines shoppers. They enjoyed lunch at the Village Inn. Jan had several birthday wishes from friends and family Saturday. The sisters stayed in all weekend, out of the weather. Monday Tra-vis Holmes came and scooped his aunts’ deck and sidewalks. Katie Still stopped in for a short visit Monday evening.

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Jeani Swartwood March 25 - Those at Clearview are very happy to announce that the state surveyors were there last week, and they got a defi ciency-free survey. Staff, residents and families are to be commended for the love and good care residents receive at Clearview. Exercise and some trivia started off the week Monday morning. Bi-ble study with Scott Marcum was Monday afternoon and all enjoyed coffee and cookies after the lesson. Everyone then came to the living room to listen to the music of Jim Boltinghouse, Wes Freemyer, Rod-ger Blanchard and Ardna Walsh. Hopefully they will come again. Residents played Who Am I? Tuesday morning. Amy gave them clues about famous people in his-tory and they guessed who they were. Bingo was played Tuesday afternoon with winners being Clara Kilgore, Lila Barker, Ona Knott, Dorothy Wetzel and Evelyn Lund. Wednesday morning were ex-ercise and some spring trivia as it was the fi rst day of spring. Amy also read from “My Cup Run-neth Over.” Terry Roberts was the minister for church Wednes-day afternoon. Kathy Rinehart came also and they sang a couple of songs. The UMW ladies were guests for church and refresh-ments afterwards. They came to the dining room for different kinds of cheesecakes and coffee. Those there were Normie Beggs, Mickey Routh, Dorothy Parrish, Dorothea Larsen, Keeta Baker, RoEmma Tull, Vaunceil Brott, Paula Larsen,

Shurmaine McAlpine, Brenda Ste-phens and Suzanne Brown. Elaine Fargo played the piano for songs. Her mother, Ethel Helgeson, is a resident at Clearview. Thursday morning Amy got the residents out to play 20 ques-tions and fi nish the phrase. Coletta Bradley enjoyed some of her fam-ily eating with her for her birthday Thursday. They brought fl owers and cookies for her to enjoy. The staff had an in-service Thursday af-ternoon. Arnold Leonard furnished pizza for everyone and then snacks were brought by the staff as it was Rocky Huffman’s last day of work. He is going to Kentucky where he will go to school to fi nish his de-gree. Everyone will all miss Rocky but wish him well in his new ad-venture. Patty also brought a cake for everyone to enjoy. Heather Etheridge and resi-dents did exercise Friday morning. The kids came to read to residents Friday afternoon and as they were leaving, the Lenox high school choir, under the direction of Sherri Boschee, came to sing. They did a wonderful job. Hopefully they will return and give another perfor-mance. Coletta Bradley enjoyed her family gathering Saturday after-noon to help her celebrate her birthday. They brought cake and ice cream and did lots of visiting and picture taking. Visitors have been Joyce and Natalie Woosley, Loretta Hatten, Janet Conner, Marilyn Martin, Bernita and Ed Bradley, Jolene and Rachel Griffi th and Norbert Brad-ley with Coletta Bradley; Doreen Garrett, Rick Garrett and Marvin Garrett with Harriet Garrett; Kerry Saville and Kathy Valen-zuela with Clara Kilgore; Jack and Dixie Taylor and Sharla McCarron with Lorabel Taylor; Trudy Weav-er with Evelyn Stevenson; Ben-jamin Nordstrom, Norma Wick-enhauser and Wilma Majors with Ona Knott, and Dorothea Larsen, Mickey Routh and Normie Beggs with several.

Kellerton Kathryn Still and Jan

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THANK YOU We would like to thank everyone for attending the annual Wishard Chapel Fish Fry last Friday night. We appreciate the support of the community and hope to see you

again next year. All are invited to visit Wishard Chapel services on Sundays. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m.

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Church Obituaries Public NoticesObituaries

Church NotesMount Ayr Larger Parish

United Methodist ChurchesPastor Skip Rushing

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

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

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

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

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

Saturdays, mass at 5:30 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Catholic ChurchGrand River

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

United Church of DiagonalPastor Ed Shields

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

Tingley First Christian ChurchAl Rusk, Pastor

10:00 a.m., Church school. Mar-garet Hull, Superintendent. 11:00 a.m., Worship. Friday, March 29: 7:00 p.m., Good Friday services.

First Lutheran ChurchMount Ayr - LCMS

Vacancy Pastor: Rev. Jonathan Watt Friday, March 29: 5:00 p.m., Good Friday service. Sunday, March 31: 11:00 a.m., Easter 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.

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

KellertonUnited Methodist Church

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

Beaconsfi eldUnited Methodist Church

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

Bank of Christ Outreach and Hope Center

2nd & 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.

United Baptist-Presbyterian Church

2343 State Highway 169Mount Ayr

Michael Maddy, Pastor(641-464-2127)

www.ubpchurch.com Sunday, March 31: Easter Sunday. 7:00 a.m., Sunise service with breakfast served afterward. 9:00 a.m., Sunday school.

10:00 a.m., Church service. Greeter, Dean Blades; Call to worship, Deb Larson: Musician, Fay Howie; Children’s sermon, Tracee Knapp. Easter message: Mike Maddy. Monday, April 1: 5:00 p.m., Stretch exercises-UBP Church. Tuesday, April 2: 7:00 a.m., Men’s breakfast at UBP Church.

Wednesday, April 3: 5:00 p.m., Stretch exercise at UBP Church. 5:30 p.m., Choir practice at UBP Church. Director Judy Cunning. 6:30 p.m., Bible study at Mount Ayr Health Care. Monday-Saturday, March 25-30: 6:30 a.m., “Breakfast With The Master” at the First Christian Church.

Faith United ParishPastor Bruce Giese

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

First Christian Church Pastor Chris Conklin

Thursday, March 28: 7:00 p.m., Maundy Thursday services (Seder meal). Friday, March 29: 7:00 p.m., Good Friday service. Sunday, March 31: Easter Sunday. 9:00 a.m., Sunday school. 10:00 a.m., Church. Monday-Saturday, March 25-30: 6:30 a.m., “Breakfast With The Master.” Wednesday, April 3: 9:30 a.m., C.W.F. 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.

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-

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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, March 31: 9:30 a.m., Easter breakfast. No Sunday school. 11:00 a.m., Easter worship ser-vice.

Mount Ayr Restoration BranchSherman Phipps, Presiding Elder

Alan Smith, AssistantSunday, March 31:Welcomers: Michael Jordison fam-

ily. 9:00 a.m., Breakfast. 9:45 a.m., Family Worship, Sue Beck family. 10:00 a.m., Classes. 11:00 a.m., Worship. Sherman Phipps, presiding; Peter Cornish, speaking; Cheryl Phipps, pianist; Rob Rolfe, special music. Custodians: Bob Rowlands. 6:00 p.m., Family fellowship at Steve Smith home.

Monday-Saturday, March 25-30:Breakfast With the Master series at

First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. Wednesday, April 3: 7:00 p.m., Prayer service at Alan Smith home. Steve Smith, presid-ing.

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Gospel sing at UBP Church April 7 A gospel sing will be held at the United Baptist-Presbyterian Church on Sunday, April 7, at 5 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Partici-pants should call Debbie Larson at 464-3611.

Annual pack-a-thon now being planned Ringgold County Cares is gear-ing up for the next big packing date. The fourth annual pack-a-thon to pack 100,000 meals is set for April 5-7 at the United Baptist-Presbyterian Church. With more than $15,800 needing to be raised, Ringgold County Cares already has achieved half of their goal. “It is vital to raise the entire amount to pay for the supplies, as well as the cost of shipping it to the hungry overseas,” said Ron Scha-fer, project coordinator. Ringgold Country Cares is a non-profi t organization that part-ners with Outreach, Inc. from Union. They are a dedicated pack-ing station providing a soy-rice fortifi ed meal to Africa and other parts of the world that suffer from hunger. Outreach, Inc. sells sup-plies for the meals at 25 cents per meal. However, Ringgold County Cares has negotiated a rate of 18 cents a meal due to the large amount of supplies that were or-dered. “We can’t do this on our own,” said Schafer. “Because of your do-nations and commitment of time, more than 96,000 meals were packaged last year.” It takes 10-12 people to run a table effectively. The table usually runs one or two-hour shifts during the event. On average, 2,160 meals are packaged in one hour per table. It costs $400 to run one table for one hour. The event will run from 4 p.m. to midnight on Friday, April 5. Packaging will resume on Satur-day, April 6 at 7 a.m. and go until 7 p.m. Saturday evening. Volunteers will fi nish the work from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. To sign up to volunteer or spon-sor a table, contact Ron Schafer, 801 S. Henderson Dr., Mount Ayr, IA 50854, call 641-414-1527 or email schafer@mchsi.com. People can also follow Ring-gold County Cares on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Ringgold-CountyCares.

Jake HuntMAURICE “JAKE” HUNT

Maurice “Jake” Hunt was born October 30, 1929 to George R. and Ruth Orilla (Ewing) Hunt in Worth county, Missouri. He de-parted this life on March 21, 2013 in the Ringgold County Hospital. He was married to Helen Louise Sickels on February 19, 1956 and was the proud father of David Lee and Randy Lynn. Having been born the fi rst day following the stock market crash, Jake’s childhood was spent with the family facing the trials of the Great Depression. His parents and the whole family toiled and sacri-fi ced to preserve the family farm. With the advent of World War II his three older brothers were called to the service so Jake had to leave school at 16 to take over the farming responsibilities along with his sister, Estelle. Their father had been injured and was unable to carry on without them. In February 1951 Jake entered the United States Army and served during the Korean War in a Com-bat Engineers battalion. He was discharged in January 1953 with the rank of staff sergeant. Jake returned to Worth county, Missouri and farmed with his fa-ther until he began farming near Redding, Iowa after his marriage to Helen. He also worked construc-tion jobs including the installation of the lines for dial telephones in Ringgold county and the addition to the Ringgold County Hospital in the 60s and early 70s. His last years of employment were spent as a truck driver for the Ringgold County Road Department until his retirement in December of 1991. He continued a small cattle opera-tion until he and Helen relocated to their present residence in Mount Ayr in 1999. Jake’s upbringing instilled in him the values that made his family most important to him. His brothers as well as his cous-ins were close and always ready to help each other when needed whether harvesting crops or repair-ing and sharing farm equipment. He was a proud veteran and was a 50+ year member of the Redding American Legion CA Herrington Post 617 participating along with his brothers and his cousin, Jubal, in providing military honor guards for countless funeral services of members from their post as well as those from the surrounding area. Time spent at family gather-ings, reunions and just plain visit-ing were some of his greatest plea-sures. Later he loved the time he spent playing dominoes and other games with his grandchildren, Doug and Amanda. In the last year his eyes would light up and sparkle when holding his new great-grand-son, Conner. Jake is survived by Helen, his wife of 57 years; his sons, David of Redding, Iowa and Randy and wife Lori of Sturdevant, WI and their children, Douglas James Hunt and friend Amy Quick, Amanda Lynn Hunt and friend Michael Curphey with their new baby, Jake and Hel-en’s great-grandson, Conner James Curphey; his brother, Amon, and sister, Estelle Hall, both of Mount Ayr, Iowa; sisters, Marilyn Simp-son of Saint Joseph, Missouri and Mary Louise McCormack of Grant City, Missouri; sisters-in-law, Rose Hunt of Mount Ayr, Iowa, Ann McGrevey and husband Dan of Fort Dodge, Iowa and Karen Bollerman of Kansas City, Mis-souri, as well as, numerous neph-

ews, nieces, cousins, and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Orilla; parents-in-law, Bernard and Leta Sullivan and Duane Sickels; step-mother, Alma Lambert Hunt; sister, Viola Ruth and husband Marion Euritt; sister-in-law, Lois E. Hunt; brother, Alan Hunt and wife Evelyn; brother, Elvis Hunt; brother-in-law, John Hall; nephew, Bill Delbert Hall, and brother-in-law, Robert Simpson. A memorial fund has been es-tablished with the Wounded War-rior Project. Services were conducted at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home in Mount Ayr on Monday, March 25, 2013 with Reverend Chris Conklin offi ciating. Musicians were Debbie Larson and Nancy Sackett. Casket bearers included Keith Hunt, George Hunt, Robert Hunt, Richard Hunt, John Hall and Cur-tis Duffi eld. Honorary casket bearers were Bill Hall (deceased), Kenneth Hunt, Jason Duffi eld, Larry Hunt, Jim Simpson and Ed Simpson. Military rites were by Ameri-can Legion Post #617 Redding, Iowa and V.F.W. #3123 Grant City, Missouri. Burial was in the Redding Cem-etery in Redding.

Geraldine McDanielGERALDINE MAY

WAINWRIGHT McDANIEL Geraldine May Wainwright Mc-Daniel was born March 11, 1927 in Creston, Iowa to Robert Reese and Ethel May Howie Wainwright. Jerri excelled in school and was on the honor roll. In 1937, when she was 10, her father passed away leaving her mother to raise three girls. Her three favorite sayings; “Don’t get discouraged and give up,” “Don’t judge” and “What you can’t fi x, you endure;” were what she lived by. She was stricken with tubercu-losis at a young age and later was the fi rst woman to give birth hav-ing had tuberculosis. At the age of 18 she moved to San Luis Obispo, California to help her uncle; her mother and sis-ters came later. She took a job at the local theatre where she worked in the concessions wrapping and boxing candy for tips, receiving only $3 for two days’ work. Her boss took away her tips saying she ate that in chocolates. She loved dancing and went to the USO Army Camp often. There she actually wore out a pair of shoes dancing with the World War II soldiers when they were either coming back from or going to war. A highlight in her life was when she got to see Red Skelton and Mickey Rooney entertaining at the USO Camp. In 1946 she met her future husband, Leo Napoleon McDaniel, the same year he was discharged from the Navy. They were married May 29, 1948 in the Presbyterian Church in San Luis Obispo. Leo’s brother, Lonzo Mc-Daniel, and Jerri’s mother, Ethel Wainwright, stood up with them. When fi rst married, they lived in a little house in the country in San Luis Obispo for four to fi ve years. Then they bought a house in Marysville and lived there for a year. Leo was offered a much better job which enabled them to buy a 13-room house in San Luis Obispo. Jerri and Leo were blessed with three sons, Robert Henry, David Leo and Mark Steven. They decid-ed California was no place to raise their boys. So after visiting Jerri’s uncle in Redding, Iowa, they de-cided to move back to the mid-west. They purchased a farm from

George Saville’s grandfather in Redding in 1961 and then moved back in February 1962. They re-modeled the 200-year-old farm-house and live there still. They fi rst raised dairy cows and then later on raised beef cattle, soybeans and corn. The McDaniel home became a favorite place for visitors as there was always something cooking in Jerri’s kitchen. Jerri put in a large garden every year, canning lots of vegetables for the winter months. Many a weekend in the cold months they would chop ice from the pond and use their rich cream from the dairy cows to make homemade ice cream. Jerri was a great lover of gardening and fl ow-ers. She looked forward to that Earl May seed catalog arriving so she could order her seeds for her spring fl ower beds and vegetables for her garden. She loved to take walks over their land always look-ing for her favorite wild rose fl ower and edible mushrooms. In her spare time she became leader of the 4-H group and was a baseball coach for Robert. She was known for gener-ously buying the team ice cream when they won their games. Jerri was also an accomplished painter and enjoyed doing farm pictures. She proudly displayed several of her own paintings throughout her home. In 1983 Jerri and Leo decided Iowa winters were just too cold for them so they bought a RV and started going to the Valley in Mis-sion, Texas for the winters. Back then the North South Road was a boulevard with palm trees in the center. Arriving at the park the second year, they found it full and spent the winter in Bluebonnet. They found it a long season as they missed the trees and were tired of the wind. They saw many changes in the park. Originally they had a council that was in charge of all park business and activities and there were no telephones. One of the things Jerri appreciated most was getting rid of the awful tast-ing well water. In the early years the rec hall was only a small build-ing. Later it was enlarged so as to provide a larger dance fl oor; which was appreciated by both of them. In 1985 there was a deep freeze resulting in the loss of the fresh or-anges and grapefruit they picked in their own yard. Their trips to Mis-sion, Texas continued for 30 years at the time of Jerri’s death. They took pride in being the second lon-gest residents at Bentsen Palm RV Park in Mission, Texas. Jerri and Leo have traveled ex-tensively in England, Germany, Switzerland, Scotland and Austria. In retirement Jerri enjoyed danc-ing, bowling and playing cards and games with their family, friends and neighbors. Many of their Texas friends found the McDaniel homestead a nice place to stop as they returned north in the spring or south in the fall. Jerri passed away on March 17, 2013 in McAllen, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Bonnie Boumont, and a nephew, Steve Boumont. Jerri is survived by her hus-band, Leo McDaniel of Redding, Iowa; three sons, Robert (Diane) McDaniel of Olympia, Washing-ton, David (Brenda) McDaniel of Dousman, Wisconsin and Mark McDaniel of Redding, Iowa; seven grandchildren, Kristopher (Nina) McDaniel of Syracuse, New York, Katherine McDaniel of New York, New York, Eric (Catherine) Mc-Daniel of Madison, Wisconsin, Scott McDaniel of Dousman, Wisconsin, Teresa McDaniel of Mukwonago, Wisconsin, Rachel (Mark) Doolittle of Kellerton, Iowa and Ryan McDaniel of Fairfax, Missouri; six great-grandchildren,

Michael Lane, Brandon Lane, Brittany Lane, Leneah McDaniel, Noah McDaniel and Safria Mc-Daniel; sister, Norma McCullough of Phoenix, Arizona, and a host of relatives, friends and neighbors. A memorial fund has been es-tablished to the American Legion in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Services were held at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home in Mount Ayr on Saturday, March 23, 2013 with Pastor Bill Armstrong offi ciating. Musicians were Mary Davenport and Andy Trullinger. Casket bearers included Ryan McDaniel, Eric McDaniel, Kath-erine McDaniel; Teresa McDaniel, Sam Mast and Levi Mast. Burial was in the Redding Cem-etery in Redding.

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Mount Ayr City Council Proceedings

Following consideration in regard to purchasing a good quality used street sweeper Superintendent Wise reported on, a motion was made by Greene, seconded by Stutzman, to move forward with the purchase of a street sweeper for $31,500. Roll call vote: Greene – Yes, Stutzman – Yes, Ricker – Yes, Cannon - Yes. Mayor Solliday opened the dis-cussion on garbage removal stating the options to include; renewing the contract with Waste Management, the city going into the business or putting it out for bids. Council-man Ricker conveyed Councilman Mathany’s (who was unable to at-tend the meeting) thoughts that the city give Waste Management no-tice, not to auto renew the current contract. Council member Stutzman concurred stating that would give the city time over the next 90 days to further analyze the best way to handle the city’s residential garbage removal and recycling plan. A motion was made by Stutzman, seconded by Greene, to provide Waste Management of Iowa with notice that the City of Mount Ayr will not be automatically renewing the “Contract For Residential Solid Waste And Recyclable Materials Collection” allowing the city to ex-plore other options. Roll call vote: Greene – Yes, Stutzman – Yes, Rick-er – Yes, Cannon - Yes. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Ricker, to approve the renewal application of Smith Oil for a Class C Beer Permit and Sun-day Sales Privileges. Ayes: Greene, Stutzman, Ricker, Cannon. Nays: None. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Stutzman, to approve the “Settlement Agreement And Re-lease” entered into between Ted F. Wood and City of Mount Ayr, Iowa,

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Public Notices

Mount Ayr Community School Board Proceedings

________________________________Continued from page 11

Drake requested a closed session to review administrative evaluations. Director Schafer made a motion at 5:31 p.m. to hold a closed session to evaluate the professional compe-tency of an individual whose perfor-mance is being considered to prevent needless and irreparable injury to that individual’s reputation, as that individual has requested a closed session. Seconded by director Shay. Roll call: Shields, Aye; Eaton, Aye; Schafer, Aye; West, Aye, and Shay, Aye. The board came out of closed session at 6:26 p.m. The regular session meeting re-convened at 6:30 p.m. by president Shields.

Early Start Hearing: The public hearing was called to order at 6:31 p.m. by president Shields. Director West made a motion to approve the early start date of August 20, 2013 for the 2013-2014 school year. Sec-onded by director Shay. Motion car-ried 5-0, unanimously.

Previous Minutes: Director West made a motion to dispense with the reading of the February 11, 2013 regular minutes and approve them as printed. Seconded by director Eaton. Motion carried 5-0.

Correspondence and Commu-nications: Valle Smith, school im-provement coordinator, was present to review the Annual Report to the Public. The purpose of the report is to provide important educational data and trends to parents, students, staff, citizens and prospective citi-zens. They are proud of the aca-demic progress students are making but their goals are for continued im-provement in all areas. Delwyn Showalter, activities director, was present to update the board about sharing athletics with Diagonal. Delwyn shared some con-cerns regarding the track program. Diagonal, at this time, has only two boys who would be interested in track. Adding those two students to their program would put the Mount Ayr boys track team into the next class. If this were to happen, the boys and girls track teams would be in separate classes and would not be able to run at the same meets and Mount Ayr would not be invited to host the district track meet. If Di-agonal were to have their own track team, Mount Ayr would strongly consider allowing Diagonal to use their track. Supt. Drake even asked if there was a possibility that the two districts could share a track coach. Delwyn will check with the state to see if this could be allowed. With the April 30 deadline approaching, Del-wyn wanted to allow the board time to consider these concerns and help them in the decision process at the April board meeting.

Administration Reports: The ac-tivity fund, buildings and grounds, lunch, transportation and technol-ogy reports were reviewed. Supt. Drake shared that the lunch program is still struggling fi nancially. There have been two resignations in the lunch program which Supt. Drake will recommend not rehiring to fi ll those positions. Also to help balance the lunch budget, the district will be raising the lunch/breakfast program meal prices in the fall and will not employ substitutes during the school year. Under transportation, Supt. Drake reported that the district has received bids from two bus com-panies for the purchase of two new school busses. Those bids will be considered under “New Business.” Kim Curry, technology director, was present to review her report which consisted of: 1) Live streaming; 2) High school SMART Board; 3) Lap-tops for next year, and 4) Wireless. Principal reports were reviewed. Lynne Wallace, 7-12 principal, re-port consisted of: 1) NAEP testing; 2) Smarter balanced assessments; 3) Spring parent-teacher conferences; 4) Smart Board donated; 5) Senator Grassley visit, and 6) Talented stu-dents. Chris Elwood, PK-6 principal, re-port consisted of: 1) Conferences; 2) Music program; 3) Step in the Right Direction; 4) Iowa assessments; 5) Otis-Lennon School Ability Test; 6) Kindergarten parent meeting; 7) Raider Reader reward movie, and 8) Book fair.

New Business: A. Approve wireless upgrade: Supt. Drake and Kim Curry re-viewed bids received from two companies for the district’s wireless upgrade. Bids were received as fol-lows: 1) Communication Innova-tors - $14,312.27 and 2) Extreme Networks - $16,266.25. Supt. Drake noted that these expenses would be

March 11, 2013 The Board of Directors of the Mount Ayr Community School Dis-trict met in regular session Monday, March 11, 2013. There were present: Rodney Shields, Chris Eaton, Duane Scha-fer, Brandi Shay and P. J. West. Also present were Joe Drake, superintendent; Lynne Wallace, 7-12 principal; Chris Elwood, PK-6 principal; Janette Campbell, board secretary/business manager; Darrell Dodge, Record-News ; Valle Smith; Delwyn Showalter; Kim Curry; Dick Still, and Patty Parrish and Becky Kerns, Clearfi eld school board mem-bers.

Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 5:30 p.m. by presi-dent Shields.

Closed session: Superintendent

paid from the capital projects fund. Director Eaton made a motion to ap-prove the bid received from Commu-nication Innovators for $14,312.27. Director Shay seconded the motion. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. B. Approve summer project bids: Supt. Drake noted that there are no bids received at this time to act on. He has been in contact with Kelly Main to discuss the possibility of replacing the asphalt pathway that leads down to the football fi eld. He also reported that Clint Poore, head of maintenance, and Delwyn Show-alter, activities director, have been in contact with a company to get handrails placed on the bleachers. With there being no bids at this time to consider, director Schafer made a motion to table this item until the April board meeting. Seconded by Director Eaton. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. C. Approve bus bids: Supt. Drake and Dick Still, transportation direc-tor, reviewed bids received from two bus companies for the purchase of two new school busses. Those bids were as follows: 1) Thomas Bus Sales, Des Moines - $95,138 per bus; and 2) School Bus Sales, Waterloo - $94,763 per bus. Supt. Drake and Mr. Still recommended the bid from Thomas Bus Sales be approved. Director West made a motion to ap-prove the bid received from Thomas Bus in the amount of $95,138 per bus. Director Shay seconded the mo-tion. Motion carried 5-0, unanimous-ly. D. Consideration of invitation from the Clearfi eld board – discuss possible reorganization: Supt. Drake shared that the Clearfi eld Commu-nity school board has been engaging in some conversation about possibly reorganizing into one district. They are inviting all adjacent school dis-tricts to share this conversation. Bedford, Lenox and Diagonal have been asked with Lenox and Diagonal already declining. Bedford will be discussing the topic at their upcom-ing Thursday board meeting. Supt. Drake shared some considerations for Mount Ayr: 1) Opportunity to gain more students; 2) Increase their total accessed value; 3) 7-12/open enrollment breakdown -- Lenox 43, Mount Ayr 15 and Diagonal nine; 4) Increase the district geographi-cally which would require another bus route; 5) During reorganization, landowners who border neighboring districts can “opt” their land out of the new reorganized district, and 6) If reorganized, they would become one district and would add Clear-fi eld staff to their staff which would mean they would have to reduce staff because they would not need more staff as the result of the reor-ganization. Patty Parrish and Becky Kerns, Clearfi eld board members, were present to answer any ques-tions the board might have. Discus-sion was held regarding reorganiza-tion versus dissolution, how many students Mount Ayr could possibly gain versus paying out open enroll-ment to the surrounding districts, costs of the demolition of the school building and possible boundary lines to consider in a dissolution versus a reorganization. After much discus-sion, director West made a motion to decline the invitation to engage in further discussions with the Clear-fi eld School district for reorganiza-tion. The motion was seconded by director Schafer. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. E. Approval of early resignations/early retirements for non-classifi ed: Supt. Drake recommended the ap-proval of two early resignations/early retirements received from: 1) Roberta Campbell – lunch and 2) Lyle Main – bus driver, to be ef-fective at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. Director Shay made a motion to approve the recommenda-tions with thanks to each employee for their many years of dedicated service to the students of this district. Seconded by director Eaton. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. F. Approval of spending reduc-tion plan: Supt. Drake presented a scenario showing the different spending reduction amounts based on allowable growth. At this time, they feel the district will receive at least a two percent allowable growth. This would generate $115,168 in new money. Out of this, they would need to pay the teacher settlement of $156,976 and $25,000 for classifi ed salaries. This would leave them with a negative $66,808. To protect their spending authority, Supt. Drake pre-sented a spending reduction plan that would include: 1) Having a librarian/technology director for a savings of

$7,600; 2) Retirement savings of possibly $18,000; 3) Classifi ed re-ductions of $24,000, and 4) Teaching staff reductions of $17,344 to equal $66,944. This could change depend-ing on the outcome of the allowable growth they receive from the state as Supt. Drake indicates on his scenar-io. The other factor that the district will need to consider is the number of certifi ed staff coming back on to the health insurance plan. Open en-rollment for this will be from April 1 – April 12. After that date, the only way certifi ed staff could come back on to the plan would be from a quali-fying/life changing event. The cur-rent scenarios show all staff mem-bers who have committed to coming back onto the health insurance plan at this time. Supt. Drake had previously surveyed the staff members and used those numbers to create the spending reduction scenarios. Director Scha-fer made a motion to approve the spending reduction plan as presented with a second from director Eaton. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. G. Approval of 2013-2014 Master Agreement: Supt. Drake explained that 2013-2014 will be the third year of a three-year salary agreement. There were two language issues that needed to be addressed as a result of legislation for 2013-2014. Supt. Drake and two board members met with the MAEA thru round table to address these issues: 1) Collabora-tion and 2) Peer review. The association has passed the new language and Supt. Drake would recommend that the board ratify the language issues. Director Eaton made a motion to approve the language as presented for the 2013-2014 Master Agreement. Director Shay seconded the motion. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. H. Set budget hearing: Director West made a motion to set April 8, 2013 at 6 p.m. for the budget hearing with the legal notice to be published in the Mount Ayr Record-News on March 21, 2013. Seconded by di-rector Schafer. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. I. Personnel: Supt. Drake recom-mended the approval of resignation for Janet Auge to be effective at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. Director Eaton made a motion to approve the recommendation with a second from director West. Mo-tion carried 5-0, unanimously. Supt. Drake recommended Brandie Rug-gles as the middle school track coach for the current school year at a salary of $1,458. Director Shay made a mo-tion to approve the recommendation with a second from director Eaton. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. Supt. Drake recommended Tori Bra-by as head volleyball coach for the 2013-2014 school year at a salary of $2,332. Director West made a mo-tion to approve the recommendation with a second from director Eaton. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously.

Consideration of: On motion by director West and seconded by direc-tor Eaton, it was resolved: That all bills presented be allowed. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously. Director West made a motion to accept the secretary/treasurer fi nan-cial report as submitted. Seconded by director Shay. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously.

Superintendent’s report: Supt. Drake shared a rough draft of some guidelines that he and Delwyn Show-alter have created for Mount Ayr Community School Hall of Fame. Nominees for membership would fall into the following categories: 1) Friends of Mount Ayr Commu-nity school; 2) Coaches/Sponsors; 3) Teams/Groups; 4) Individuals, and 5) Distinguished graduates. The process of nominations was shared as well as a copy of the nomination form. Supt. Drake wanted the board to have a copy to review before board action is taken at a future board meeting.

Adjournment: With there being no further business, director Eaton made a motion to adjourn at 8:06 p.m. Seconded by director West. Motion carried 5-0, unanimously.

Access Systems, copiers overage charge, $184.73.

Access Systems, copier lease, $336.11.

Active Forever, ESCS supplies, $17.44.

Ahlers and Cooney, P.C., legal service, $559.00.

Alliant Energy, gas/electricity, $22,144.21.

Amy Levine, special education meal reimbursement, $50.62.

Bairdholm, immigration services,

$354.00.Bedford Community School, su-

perintendent/transportation sharing, $30,700.00.

Blick Art Material, art supplies, $16.79.

Canon Financial Services, Inc., copier lease, $774.08.

Cardmember Service, special education supplies/guidance travel, $207.21.

Central Plains Electric, mainte-nance repair part, $105.29.

CGI Foods, special education Level III supplies, $253.64.

Committee for Children, spe-cial education Level II supplies, $1,829.00.

Corning Community School, POI honor band meals, $33.75.

Cummins Central Power LLC, bus barn repair parts, $515.91.

De Lage Landen, copiers lease, $1,131.11.

Des Moines Public Schools, tu-ition, $133.44.

Dollar General Corporation, special education/special education Level II supplies, $137.90.

Drake University, academic team registration, $175.00.

Family Resource Center, Little Raider Reader three mts., $11,976.39.

Federal Express, FedEx ground services, $206.24.

Green Hills AEA, high school principal supplies, $59.85.

Gregory Storhoff, high school band equipment repair, $20.49.

Hawthorne Educational, special education textbooks, $177.00.

Hy-Vee, Inc., district study meal, $76.04.

Iowa Association of School Busi-ness Offi cials, spring conference registration, $178.00.

Iowa Communications Network, network services, $2.75.

John Deere Financial, bus barn repair parts, $618.03.

Johnson Gas Appliance Compa-ny, industrial arts equipment repair, $52.03.

Maryville Typewriter Exchange, chairs/high school principal sup-plies, $263.29.

Meyer Laboratory, Inc., mainte-nance supplies, $1,012.50.

MFA Oil Company, gas/diesel, $10,631.27.

Midwest Offi ce Technology, copiers maintenance, $702.00.

Mount Ayr Golf & Country Club, physical education use of golf course, $100.00.

Mount Ayr Chamber of Com-merce, dues, $60.00.

Mount Ayr Farm & Home, main-tenance supplies, $151.29.

Mount Ayr FFA Chapter, scholar-ship reimbursement, $225.00.

Mount Ayr Record-News, board proceedings/advertising, $344.10.

NAPA Auto Parts, mainte-nance/vocational mechanics resale, $266.48.

National Reading Styles Inst., special education supplies, $27.95.

Per Mar Security Services, secu-rity service call, $42.00.

Premier A & B Services, bus barn parts, $315.78.

Red Oak Welding Supplies, Inc., industrial arts supplies, $142.90.

Rieman Music, band equipment repair, $37.75.

Romano’s, Raider Reader pizza, $35.96.

Rotert Plumbing & Electric, heating/plumbing/electrical repair, $7,256.33.

School Health Supply Co., nurse supplies, $21.82.

Schildberg’s, Inc., bus barn grav-el, $547.09.

Sickels Lime and Rock Hauling, hauling rock, $190.82.

Smith Oil Co., 20 lbs. LP, $17.50.

Southwestern Community Col-lege, automotive tuition, $7,600.00.

Southwest Builders, maintenance supplies, $34.13.

Thomas Bus Sales of Iowa, Inc., bus barn repair parts, $271.33.

Tierney Brothers, Inc., audito-rium/media equipment, $1,987.00.

Timberline Billing Service LLC, Medicaid adm. fees, $259.08.

City of Mount Ayr, water/sew-age, $2,272.25.

Van Maanen, Siestra & Meyer, PC, federal single audit, $542.48.

Walmart Community, special ed-ucation Level I supplies, $110.31.

Weeda Welding, snow plow re-pairs, $195.00.

Wiley’s Pest Control, pest con-trol, $200.00.

Fund total = $108,889.46MANAGEMENT FUND

SU Insurance Company, equip-ment insurance, $7,105.25.

Fund total = $7,105.25CAPITAL PROJECTS

Newton Overhead Doors, con-cession stand door repair, $397.64.

Fund total = $397.64SCHOOLHOUSE FUND

Bankers Trust, initial call notice - bonds, $3,450.00.

U.S. Bank, fi nancial advisory fee, $17,000.00.

Fund total = $20,450.00STUDENT CONSTRUCTION

Scott Giles, construction sup-plies, $69.67.

Fund total = $69.67MANAGEMENT FUND

Mercer, retirees health insurance, $1,165.63.

Fund total = $1,165.63LUNCH FUND

Anderson-Erickson Dairy Co., milk/juice, $7,129.04.

CGI Foods, food, $951.30.Farner Bocken Co., food/sup-

plies, $2,177.91.Hawkeye Foodservice Distribu-

tion, food/supplies, $6,213.38.Hockenberg Equipment Com-

pany, supplies, $397.50.HyVee Food Store, food,

$1,049.60.Keck, Inc., food, $2,965.62.Martin Brothers, food,

$3,963.70.Meyer Laboratory, Inc., supplies,

$90.00.Patricia Kemery, clothing allow-

ance, $57.72.Anderson-Erickson Dairy Co.,

milk/juice, $5,398.25.CGI Foods, food, $458.80.Farner-Bocken Co., food/sup-

plies, $3,057.67.Hawkeye Foodservice Distribu-

tion, food/supplies, $6,873.65.Hockenbergs, supplies, $855.07.Hy-Vee Food Store, food,

$929.26.Martin Brothers, food/supplies,

$3,000.56.Redding Country Store, food,

$13.60. Fund total = $45,582.63

ACTIVITY FUND4 Seasons Fund-Raising, addi-

tional fruit/cheese, $107.79.Alex Sobotka, equipment build-

ing, $100.00.Athletic Boosters, girls basketball

t-shirt sales balance, $623.91.Atlantic Bottling Co., supplies,

$1,510.53.Barbara Strubberg, Cassandra B.

reimbursement deposit, $50.00.Bill Huxford, basketball offi cial

vs. Lenox, $85.00.Bob’s Custom Trophies, medals/

plaques, $416.85.Brandi Cole, FFA food order re-

imbursement, $28.00.Cheri Day, Austen Casteel de-

posit return, $50.00.Community Grocers, Inc., sup-

plies, $1,649.53.Corning High School, wrestling

entry fee, $70.00.Creston High School, wrestling

tournament/junior varsity wrestling tournament entry fee, $138.00.

Dannco, Inc., jersey/shorts/pants/equipment bag, $258.65.

David Greene, junior varsity bas-ketball offi cial vs. Lenox, $50.00.

Delwyn Showalter, supplies re-imbursement, $43.28.

Farner Bocken Co., supplies, $728.44.

Graphic Edge, shorts/polos/jack-ets/shirts, $883.44.

Greg Storhoff, music reimburse-

ment, $41.23.Hermitage Art Co., program cov-

er, $57.25.Howard Clothing & Sporting

Goods, wrestling offi cial arm bands/slipp-nott base / pad / scorebook, $145.00.

Hy-Vee Accounts Receivable, supplies, $76.81.

Iowa Football Coaches Asso-ciation, 2013 membership dues, $30.00.

Iowa High School Speech As-sociation, speech entry fees/state speech entry fees, $198.00.

James Smith, junior varsity bas-ketball offi cial vs. Lenox, $50.00.

Jazimne Gibson, laptop deposit after bill reimbursement, $16.30.

Joe Quinlin, stretch bands, $50.00.

Lunch Fund, Jazimne Gibson/Ty-ler Lugar, $55.30.

Mount Ayr Community School, father/daughter janitor fee reim-bursement/Lugar lost book, $89.15.

Maryville R-II High School, quad wrestling entry fee, $150.00.

M-F Athletic Co., black band, $293.95.

Nodaway Valley High School, POI junior varsity wrestling entry fee, $42.00.

Par Golf Supply, tees, $98.80.Podium Ink, shirts/duals banner,

$2,078.15.Record-News, Ron Scott tourna-

ment, $60.45.Scott Busch, basketball offi cial

vs. Lenox, $85.00.Steve Shantz, basketball offi cial

vs. Lenox, $85.00.Susie Catanzareti, parking fees

reimbursement, $41.00.Tanner Rinehart, hotel for clinic

reimbursement, $114.79.Tyler Lugar, laptop deposit reim-

bursement, $18.40.Apple Inc., volume voucher,

$200.00.Barnes & Noble, Inc., books,

$352.96.Ewell Education Services, agri-

cultural experience tracke, $250.00.Leukemia Society, National Hon-

or Society fund-raiser, $1,899.31.Eric Ehlen, state wrestling meals,

$180.00.Great Western Bank, supplies,

$21.39.Grandview University Coaches

Clinic, registration fee, $95.00.American Cancer Society, el-

ementary fund-raiser, $757.00.Iowa High School Athletic Di-

rectors Association, registration fee, $85.00.

Iowa High School Athletic As-sociation, district basketball admis-sions/host, $2,970.00.

Fund total = $17,480.66

PublicNotice

PUBLIC NOTICEPetitioner, Taja Meek

vs James Meek, respondent.

A hearing on the petition for ple-nary order of protection is hereby set for 1:30 p.m. in court room 207 on April 10th, 2013, in the Circuit Court of the 19th Judicial Circuit, Lake County, Illinois.

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Mount Ayr City Council Proceedings

authorizing Mayor Solliday’s signa-ture. Roll call vote: Greene – Yes, Stutzman – Yes, Ricker – Yes, Can-non - Yes. In other discussion it was noted the Sportsman Club will need to bring their annual Loch Ayr main-tenance report to a meeting in April and discuss renewal of the mainte-nance contract; tree causing sewer problems at Ed McCreary property to be researched; question of curb responsibility at property on Monroe Street where house was torn down; report of dump station area needed rocked; and reports that fl ag at City Hall needs secured. A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Greene, to approve the treasurer’s report. Ayes: Greene, Stutzman, Ricker, Cannon. Nays: None. A motion was made by Ricker, seconded by Stutzman, to pay the following bills: Ayes: Greene, Stutz-man, Ricker, Cannon. Nays: None. Hach, probe/meter, $2,109.10. US Bank, federal/FICA tax, $2,335.85. Treasurer, State of IA, sales tax, $2,697.00. Aramark, rugs, $29.89. IAMU, dues, $491.45. Postmaster, postage, $92.00. Ringgold County Supervisors, jail payment, $5,195.04. Richard Wilson, legal fees, $734.20. Alliant, gas and electric, $35.27. Data Tech, workshop, $170.00. Municipal, curb stop, $556.12. Teledyne, samplers, $158.41. Iowa One Call, notices, $15.30. Offi ce Machines, supplies, $74.76. Windstream, phone / Internet, $404.47. DNR, exam fees, $270.00. Ringgold County Treasurer, prop-erty taxes, $1,330.00. Waste Management, garbage contract, $11,313.85. IMFOA, conference, $100.00. Ringgold County Recorder, fees, $52.00. Dollar General, supplies, $24.20. Feld Fire, extinguishers, $181.00. Goob’s, chains, $620.00. City of Des Moines, sludge dis-posal, $1,376.31. Schildberg, rock, $943.31. Steve Craig, CPO CEU’s, $85.00. Mount Ayr Inn, rebate agreement, $11,173.18. Podium Ink, signs, $828.00. Fire Service, training, $120.00. Red Oak Welding, rent, $10.20. Mount Ayr Tractor, repairs, $618.47. Amanda Cannon, mileage, $94.92. United Healthcare, insurance, $5,016.78. Cody Jay, lunch, $8.00. Ben Graham, lunch, $8.00. Oakview, construction, $31,424.10. GPM, calibrate meter, $418.50. MATURA, refund, $120.57. Payroll, 3/8/2013, $3,475.62. Payroll, 3/15/2013, $3,453.25.

Gross Claims = $88,164.12(By Fund: General $6,056.08; Ind Bldg $52.00; Gar-bage $11,313.85; Employee Benefi t $1,315.00; Loch Ayr $1,330.00; Aquatic Center $31,459.37; LOST $5,195.04; Mount Ayr Inn TIF $11,173.18; Water $6,857.41; Sewer $13,412.19)

FEBRUARY RECEIPTSGeneral .......................... $12,300.26Downtown Renovation ..... 1,243.34Industrial Bldg .................. 1,667.00Garbage ........................... 12,373.91Road Use Tax .................. 14,100.87Employee Benefi t ................. 168.83LOST ............................... 11,834.42FEMA Storm Shelter....... 42,318.64Debt Service ......................... 444.67Water ............................... 39,257.73Water Improvement........... 3,894.40Sewer ............................... 53,870.27Emergency ............................. 26.57

Total = $193,500.91FEBRUARY DISBURSEMENTSGeneral .......................... $22,236.47Garbage ......................... $11,353.52Road Use Tax .................... 8,327.94Employee Benefi t .............. 5,254.53Aquatic Center ................ 11,337.32LOST ................................. 5,917.21FEMA Storm Shelter....... 42,318.64Water ............................... 32,160.63Water Improvement........... 6,815.20Sewer ............................... 36,996.62

Total = $182,718.08 A motion was made by Cannon, seconded by Ricker, to adjourn. DONALD SOLLIDAY MayorATTEST: PAMELA POORE City Clerk

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March 25 - Thursday evening Robert, Julie, Laura and Amber Davison and Richard and Carole Davison went to Maryville, MO to visit with Jacob, Ashley, Ava and Olivia Moss of Dallas, TX along with other family members in the home of Dave and Diana Peder-

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March 25 - Happy Easter! En-joy this time with family and friends whether it be at a family gathering, a visit on the phone, a personal visit or by mail. It is always nice to hear from those close to you. Residents plan to take part in a few Easter activities themselves as the week draws to a close. They are also anxious to see if March goes out like a lion or lamb. Preferably a lamb! Staff and residents would like to welcome Nina Poore to Mount Ayr Health Care. Nina comes from Maple Ridge Assisted Living and is a joy to spend time with. Neil Stanley was in to enjoy the noon meal with his mother on both Tuesday and Friday of last week. Phyllis Sickels was pleased to be a lunch guest of her mother, Sylvia Hall, a couple of days last week as well. Ruth Angus enjoyed spending both Saturday and Sunday out with her family. Evalee White had a nice time out with her family Sunday. Lap robes were delivered over the weekend by Nida Solliday, a member of the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. Coffee was the subject during ladies club last Monday as ladies found that coffee originated in Ethiopia and spread as it is now grown in America. A popular pas-time for many has been to gather for “coffee.” Ladies also had a fun time looking over the many types of coffee on display as well as cof-fee makers from pioneer days to now and different types of coffee cups. Friends from RCSS visited last

Monday afternoon and together everyone made Easter baskets and enjoyed playing words games. Green Is It! That was the fi tting color as a fun day of green was had Tuesday. Everything was green from trivia, games, songs and even food. The afternoon continued with the green theme but took ev-eryone to Emerald Isle where they visited the ways of the Irish. The afternoon came to a close after a fi ne Bible study session with Pas-tor and Mrs. Charles Hawkins. Seven large baskets greeted residents as they arrived for ac-tivities Wednesday morning. Each basket contained from one to fi ve different items. Residents had to feel under the covering and guess the contents of each basket. There were some awesome guesses as well as several correct answers. Church was with Pastor Chris Conklin from the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. A Palm Sun-day sermon was heard as well as music accompanied by Camelle Jackson. Enjoying bingo with residents Wednesday afternoon were Har-old and Melynda Crawford, Chad Quick, Cherri Dessinger, Corwin Karr and Phyllis Sickels. Phyllis Riggs called the numbers and win-ning games were Marvin Morse, Ruth Angus, Margaret Fletchall, Irene Bohn, Vergene Higgins, Donna Benegas, Chad Quick, Cor-win Karr, Margaret Wilson, Doro-thy Sobotka, Earl Brand, Darlene Minnick, Vergene Higgins, Evalee White, Wayne Bohn and Corwin Karr who won blackout. Beards and moustaches were the topic during men’s club last week as the men shared times when they each grew one or the other. Two of the men gathered during this time now have facial hair while only one had suffi cient hair on his head. Men also named and did trivia about movie stars, presidents, ball players and other famous people who enjoyed wear-ing beards and moustaches. How about you? Other fun games and activities

Activities StaffActivities StaffClearview Home

March 25 - The month is nearly over and Liz still needs to com-plete the calendar. How time fl ies when the snow blows. It seems to be more like winter than spring. Groundhog Phil is in hiding to keep from the bad publicity of the weather. Coming up in April is Na-tional Volunteer Week April 21-27. Watch for special events that week. The birthday party will be celebrat-ed during the special music by the Community Singers on April 22. Residents with a birthday in April are Roxie Trullinger on April 2; Vera Daughton, April 5; Mildred Peterson, April 5, and Edna Scott, April 24. Staff with a birthday in April are Whitney Harker on April 6; Vanessa Corbett and Elizabeth Hamiliton, April 9; Joyce John-son, April 11; Kris Davis and Ju-lie Routh, April 12; Tristin Force, April 17; Buddy Powell, April 19; Holly Karr, April 20, and Regina Taub, April 30. Condolences go out to Herman Lane’s family. Herman was only a resident for a short time but very well liked and will be missed by everyone. Thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. Congratulations go out to CNA Tiffany Huntsman. Tiffany will be recognized at the Activity Pro-fessionals Education Conference sponsored by the Iowa Health Care Association and Iowa Center for Assisted Living this week. A photo of Tiffany and a picture with one of Clearview’s residents, Anna Linkey, will be on display at the conference and shared with Iowa legislators. Clearview is honored to have this special story shared with the rest of the health care pro-fessionals. Monday residents played the card game Trash in the morning with Kathi and Sommer. They dec-orated foam eggs for door decora-tions around the facility. It was Dixie Cup’s birthday on March 23 (1912), so Sommer served snack mix in Dixie Cups for coffee club. Lisa played the piano in the dining room for music in the morning. Staff sang “Happy Birth-day” to Ray Miller. Kathi played bingo with Lisa in the afternoon. Residents coming out as winners were Lois Anne Sobotka, Doyle Murphy, Shorty Umbarger, Ione Veatch, Roxie Trullinger, Frances Saltzman, Helen Banks, Joan Hill, Anna Linke, Minnie Breckenridge and Thelma Grimes. Wednesday Sommer and Pat-tie were busy with nail care while Kathi delivered mail. Chris Conk-lin was in for church in the after-noon. He brought in his guitar to play. Residents enjoyed “The Andy Griffi th Show” while eating fresh popped popcorn. Dr. Ricker was in for doctor’s rounds Thursday. Pattie, Sommer and Kathi made donuts for resi-dents and staff. In the afternoon Kathi played a game of jackpot with the residents. Going out in the fi rst game was Rose Hunt and the second game was Laura Osborn. Charles Hawkins fi nished the day with Bible study. Kathi read the Mount Ayr Re-cord-News and Diagonal Progress to a large group of residents. Lisa

What happened to spring?Thanks to last weekend’s snow, this group of robins is probably reconsidering their early return to Ringgold county. After a cold start to this spring, temperatures are predicted to moderate into the 50s this weekend.

sen. The Maloy Shamrock 4-H Club met Sunday afternoon in Benton. Joe, Donna and Megan Warin were in Trenton, MO Saturday. Megan played basketball with her Hydra AAU team. Joyce Weehler and Joan Jack-son had lunch Thursday with sev-eral retired former school employ-ees. Gracie Mobley spent Tues-day night and Wednesday in Des Moines with Alexis Main. They were enjoying their spring break. Jed McCreary spent Friday night and Saturday with Wyatt Jackson. Sunday Robert, Julie, Laura and Amber Davison were at the home of Keith and Nancy Sackett for an early Easter celebration.

Joyce Weehler went to Van Horne Monday to attend the spring musical at the Benton Community high school. Jamie and Jessi Heil-man, her grandchildren, were in the program. Joyce stayed over-night with Becky, Jamie and Jessi Heilman in Van Horne. Nolan Barth of Grundy Cen-ter spent Friday night and part of Saturday with Robert, Julie, Laura and Amber Davison. Nancy Sack-ett and Julie, Laura and Amber met Nolan’s mother in Osceola for lunch so Nolan could return home. Thursday Amy Mobley, Mad-die, Emma and Gracie spent the day in Des Moines with orthodon-tist appointments and shopping. Teya Still and Blair Glenden-ning spent Friday night with Mad-die Mobley.

enjoyed during the past week were nail care with Phyllis Riggs and Dorothy Hughes, the Mount Ayr Record-News, exercises, devo-tions, bridge-o, dominoes and Skip Bo. Sunday school was taught by Ruth Angus this past Sunday morning with music by Charlotte Swank and led by Dick Fuqua. Welcome visitors over the past week have been Korbi and Kade Munoz`, Susan Karas of Indianola and Vera Moore with Bev Moore; Judy Doolittle, Marion and Donna Stark, Vicki Parrott and Penni Hewlett of Iowa City with Loreen Reed; Warren Angus, Bob and Teri Campbell, Ellen Powell, Doris Bane of Laramie, WY and Tom and Helen Pollock of Malvern with Ruth Angus; Bobbie and Anne Rinehart of Hatfi eld, MO and Rhonda Coo-per of Kent with Kathryn Adams; James Ruby and Lois Grace with Betty Ruby; Marilyn Triggs of Marion with Lorene Triggs; Con-nie Worthington of Des Moines, Hank Smith and Judy Pottorff with Margaret Fletchall; Ethel Camp-bell with Donald Campbell; Darla Sobotka and Carol and Arlene So-botka with Dorothy Sobotka; Merna King of Bedford and Dan King with Ed and Lorraine King; Irene Merical of Adel and Wayne and Suzanne Brown of Pleasant Hill with Shirley Brown; Lyle and Janet Hogue of Hatfi eld, MO and Doris Overholser with Irene Hogue; Steve Werner and Nancy and Race Kelly of Winter-set with Maxine Werner. Neil Stanley with Ada Stanley; Marion Stark, Phyllis Sickels and Cheri Dessinger with Sylvia Hall; Lois Triggs, Wilma Schafer and Jean Gilliland with Earl Brand; Pat and Larry Teply and Missy the dog with Gerald Gardner; Lor-rie Haver with Wayne and Irene Bohn; Bob and Teri Campbell with Margaret Campbell, and John and Donna Crawford of Orange City, Bernard Crawford, Harold, Me-lynda and Samantha Crawford and Chad Quick with Catherine Craw-ford.

Riley Jones, representing the Tingley Toppers 4-H club, accepts a check for $200 from Clint Spurrier and the South Central Iowa Community Foundation from the Eva Judy Johnston endowment. Those attendng the presentation include (front row, L-R) Spurrier, Caroline McAlexander, Ryann Martin, Jones, Tyler Jones and SCICF board member Barb Stephens; (back row) Sarah McAlexander, board member Kevin Creveling, Quency Vos, Rebecca Jones, board member Sue Beck, board member Michele Ricker and Spence Jones.

played the piano in the south and north lobbies for residents to enjoy. Kathi and Lisa held a sing-along in the special care unit. Mrs. Taylor’s second grade class was in to play bingo with the residents. Winners were Gerata Scott, Austin Byrd, Helen Banks, Shorty Umbarger, Iris Osborn, Nina Saltzman, For-rest Shields, Daron Drake, Anna Linkey, Austin Byrd and Vera Daughton. Volunteers were Nina Fricke and Kelly Kern. Students out to enjoy the resi-dents and bingo were Aidan Al-baugh, Alexis Greenland, Angelina Smith, Austin Byrd, Daron Drake Ethan Main (great-aunt Wendy Shaha works there), Haley Bar-ton (mom, Brandi Barton, kitchen aide), Natalie Schaefer, Payton Gregg, Riley Stark, Rosie Leon-

ard, Stormy Saville, Tabby Henle, Tessa Kniep, Trey Fooken (mom, Amber Fooken, social worker) and Zoey Larsen. Residents enjoyed a new Sun-day school teacher this weekend. Cheryl Taylor was in to lead the group. Carmene James was in to play the piano. Lisa and Chris Conklin were in for a sing-along in the afternoon. Visitors last week were Dave and Nancy Stephens and Virginia Rees with Helen Blunck; Jim and Arlene Pearce with Edna Scott; Brenda Comer with Vera Carson; Doris Todd with Mildred Peterson and Shirley Martin; John Walkup with Vera Carson; Paula Larsen and Kathy Butler with Pam Lar-sen; Leo and Thelma Miller of Milo, Lyla Miller and Sue Rahn

with Ray Miller; Brenda Comer with Eddie Overholser; Cassie Osborn, Donna Bond and Payton Osborn with Laura Osborn; Carle Norris and Sherry McBroom with Anita Hayworth; Kay Sickels with Vera Daugh-ton; Florence Bishop and April Hansen with Lawrence Bishop; Niky, Brittlyn and Duke Taylor and Scott and Duke Taylor with Anna Linkey; Shirley Erickson, Garn and Barb Iverson, Cyle Iver-son, Brenda, Mark and Myles Er-ickson and Ed Van Sucksun with Don Strange; with Anna Linkey; Jane Sanders of Booneville, Alice Campbell of Adel and Pat Car-penter with Ione Veatch; Joyce England with Lois Anne Sobotka, and Sandy and Lonnie Horne with Rose Hunt.

Beginning of the endAmish workers remove the roof of the old bath house at the Judge Lewis Park swimming pool. Waiting in the wings is the heavy equipment that will completely demolish the structure in the coming days. A new bath house will be completed in mid-May prior to the opening of the pool.

Starting vegetables at home can be fun and offers several advantag-es. Many gardeners prefer to grow their own seedlings so they can select specifi c cultivars (varieties) and control seedling growth. By starting seedlings indoors, garden-ers can enjoy vegetables earlier in the growing season. Horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach answer questions about starting cabbage, broccoli and caulifl ower seedlings and selecting varieties:

When should I sow my cab-bage seeds indoors? Sow cabbage, broccoli and cau-lifl ower seeds indoors four to fi ve weeks before the intended outdoor planting date. Cabbage, broccoli and cauli-fl ower seedlings can be planted

outdoors in early April in southern Iowa, mid-April in central por-tions of the state and late April in northern counties. Immediately after germination, place the seed-lings under fl uorescent lights in a cool (55 to 65 degree Fahrenheit) location. High light levels and cool temperatures will prevent the seed-lings from getting tall and spindly.

What are some good cabbage varieties for the home garden? Suggested cabbage varieties for Iowa include ‘Blue Vantage’ (mid-season, large blue-green head), ‘Cheers’ (late season, large blue-green head), ‘Head Start’ (early season, medium-size green head), ‘Red Acre’ (midseason, small red-purple head), ‘Ruby Perfection’ (late season, medium-size deep red head), ‘Savoy Ace’ (late season,

savoy type) and ‘Stonehead’ (early season, small green head).

What are some good broccoli varieties for Iowa? Suggested broccoli varieties for Iowa include ‘Arcadia’ (late sea-son, dome-shaped head), ‘Gypsy’ (midseason, smooth domed head), ‘Packman’ (early, uniform large head) and ‘Premium Crop’ (mid-season, large center head).

What are some good cauli-fl ower varieties for home gar-dens in Iowa? Suggested caulifl ower varieties for Iowa include ‘Fremont’ (early to midseason, white head), ‘Snow Crown’ (early season, white head) and ‘White Sails’ (midseason, white head). Popular novelty va-rieties include ‘Cheddar’ (orange head) and ‘Graffi ti’ (deep purple head).

Extension offers gardening tipsI recently received some cut fl ow-ers as a gift. How do I prolong their life? Several things can be done to lengthen the vase life of cut fl ow-ers. Begin with a clean vase and remove all foliage that will be be-low the water line. Place fl owers immediately in water to prevent air from entering the stems. If the fl owers have been out of water for more than a few minutes, cut off the bottom portions of the stems under water. Add a commercial fl ower preservative to the water and check the water level daily. Change the water frequently. Place the cut fl owers in a cool, brightly lit location in the home or offi ce. Keep fl owers away from heat sources and cold drafts.

I received a fl owering azalea as a gift. How do I care for it? In the home, place the azalea in a brightly lit, cool location. An ideal site is one near a window that receives bright light (but no direct sunlight) and temperatures of 60 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. An important aspect of caring for an azalea is proper watering. Water needs can be determined with your fi nger. Check the potting soil daily. When the soil surface becomes dry to the touch, water the plant until water begins to fl ow out the bottom of the pot. The pots of most azaleas are placed inside decorative pot covers. When wa-tering the azalea, carefully remove the pot covering, water the plant in the sink, then drop the azalea back into the pot cover. When placed in a favorable location and given good care, an azalea may bloom for three to four weeks. Azaleas sold by fl orists are not winter hardy outdoors in Iowa and are normally discarded after fl owering.