Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 6, 2003

Raider wrestler Kevin TRULLINGER came back from his first round loss to eventual champion Mitch LANGRECK of Turkey Valley to take seventh place in the tournament. This was his second trip to the state tournament, where he wrestled at 215 pounds.

Four Mount Ayr Community high school speech entries and one from Diagonal Community high school received division I ratings at the district individual speech contest held in Shenandoah Saturday. Receiving top ratings for Mount Ayr Community high school were Amanda HYNEK for her story telling and acting entries, Debra WILSON for her prose reading entry and Jared BECK for his improvisation entry. Tory WALKUP received a division I rating in prose reading for Diagonal.

A Ringgold county resident won the 1963 Chevrolet Nova convertible given away in a drawing at Lakeside Casino in Osceola recently. The drawing was held at the casino Saturday, Feb. 22, and the classic car was delivered Wednesday, Feb. 26. The car needs to be restored to working condition. Winning the drawing was Debbie SHIELDS of Diagonal.

Jim OVERHOLTZER was the winner of the Gene Sevier 2003 cribbage tournament held at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr Saturday. OVERHOLTZER won a three-way playoff game to be named the winner with a score of 726. Second place went to Jim VanVALKENBURG with a score of 724. J. B. ROUTH had a score of 680 for third place. Named honorable mention for having the lowest score, but earning a free entry in the tournament for 2004 was Robyn BICKEL.

A Mount Ayr student at Graceland University in Lamoni received all-conference honors following the recently completed men's basketball season there. Matt LYNCH, a sophomore at the college, received first team all-conference recognition on the Heart of American conference team following the season. LYNCH ended the season ranked first in the conference in steals with 2.6 per game and 15th in the conference in assists with 2.6 per game.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

 

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