Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 18, 1997

Plans to make Grand Valley school a domestic violence shelter await funding response from boards of supervisiors in a six-county area. Though services are provided in Creston and the outreach offices, the nearest shelter for victims of domestic abus is as far away as Atlantic and Des Moines -- 50 and 90 miles away. This makes the southern Iowa conglomeration of counties in the larges area in Iowa without an emergency safe shelter.

Another option for use of the Grand Valley elementary school building was discussed but the district that is looking to being dissolved this summer had no new business at the regular meeting of the Grand Valley school board Wednesday, Dec. 10. Richard PALMER of Tingley attended the meeting to tell the board members that a town meeting would be held in Kellerton on January 12 to discover if citizens are interested in having the school building made into a community center. PALMER, representing the Iowa Schoolhouse Preservation Foundation, stated that if his proposal is accepted by the board after the February presentation, he would be interested in the kitchen equipment in the building.

Dr. Ramesh ASHWATHNARAYAN is currently practicing medicine at the Mount Ayr Medical Clinic along with Dr. Bruce RICKER. Dr. ASHWATHNARAYAN comes to Mount Ayr from Chicago, IL, where he has lived since 1994.

Bob SHAFER, secretary of Ringgold County Mutual Insurance Association in Mount Ayr, finished his year as president of the Mutual Insurance Association of Iowa at the group's annual convention in November.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2015

 

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