Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, January 8, 1987

King and queen for the Grand Valley Community homecoming will be chosen Friday night to cap off the week of festivities there. Queen will be chosen from Deborah HARRIS, daughter of James and Mary Harris of Grand River; Jamie GREENLAND, daughter of Max and Pat GREENLAND of Grand River; Dawn HEWLETT, daughter of Don and Marge HEWLETT of Grand River, and Sandy MERCER, daughter of Ernie and Judy MERCER of Kellerton. The king will be chosen from Aaron SICKELS, son of Larry and Linda SICKELS of Kellerton; Tim NEWTON, son of A. C. NEWTON of Kellerton; Darren HOPKINS, son of Don and Kathy HOPKINS of Grand River, and Jeff BEDIER, son of Lloyd and Peggy BEDIER of Ellston.

Candidates for prince and princess at the Grand Valley Community high school homecoming celebration include Tanaya WALKER, Kelli STARK, Toshia BAKER and Tami LARSON for princess and Bob LEEPER, Jon BINNING, David GROSE and Joey STARK for prince. LARSON, WALKER, Joey STARK and GROSE are seventh graders and BAKER, Kelli STARK, BINNING and LEEPER are eighth graders.

Bringing a touch of Holland to the halls of the Grand Valley Community high school this year is exchange student Elske BOSMA. Her "sister" is Dawn HEWLETT, a Grand Valley senior.

Newly elected county officers were sworn in for their new terms by Ringgold county magistrate Bob ROE Friday, January 2 at the Ringgold county courthouse. Treasurer Barbara BOWER, supervisor Duane POORE, recorder Carol WEEDA and county attorney Arlen HUGHES were all sworn in. WEEDA is the only new face in the courthouse, with the other officers being re-elected to the positions. Also sworn in were three deputies -- deputy recorder Jan FORD, deputy treasurer Donna RICHARDS and deputy auditor Bob ERICKSON.

A gift of land that may bring scholarships of $2,000 or more a year to graduates of Mount Ayr Community high school was accepted bythe Mount Ayr Community school board in a special meeting Wednesday, Dec. 31. Edward A. (Whitey) PINE of Colorado Springs, CO, a former resident here, had offered to donate a parcel of land to the school for the school to sell and use the proceeds to establish a scholarship fund for MACHS graduates. The gift includes six lots and part of a seventh on the north side of the 900 block of East Jackson Street in the east part of Mount Ayr.

A Ringgold county area student has been selected to the 1987 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges as one of 23 national outstanding campus leaders at Lamar Community College, Lamar, CO. Doug HEWLETT, a 1984 Grand Valley Community high school graduate, is a horse training and management student at the college in Lamar, CO. He is the son of Albert and Phyllis HEWLETT of Grand River. The president of the college, Dr. Marvin LANE, is the son of Mrs. Hazel LANE of Mount Ayr.

During the past year, 25 Ringgold County patients were admitted and 185 clinic visits made to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics by residents from Ringgold county. The Ringgold county patients were some of more than 400,000 people who received health care services at the hospitals in Iowa City during the past year. Only two counties in the state -- Adams with 15 patients and Osceola with 24 patients -- had fewer patients admitted to the hospital in Iowa City during the past year.

Vince GERINGER died of a massive stroke and a funeral service was conducted January 3 in Clarence, MO, where he had retired from school teaching. GERINGER had taught chemistry and physics at Mount Ayr Community high school from August of 1962 until May of 1976. His wife, Velma, died within the last year.

Ringgold County Farm Bureau membership is increasing steadily and currently has 555 1987 members, including 25 new members.

Duane POORE was elected as 1987 chairman of the Ringgold county board of supervisors. He succeeds Jim JONES, the 1986 chairman, who is continuing as a board member. Eldon STILL is the third supervisor.

New trials for Ronald and Harold TODD, convicted in 1981 of the murder of Alberta MICHAEL of Mount Ayr, were denied by the Iowa Court of Appeals last week. The men, convicted in August 1981 of second degree murder and first degree robbery in the death of their aunt, Alberta MICKAEL of Mount Ayr, in a Madison county trial, had argued that their rights were violated when the jury in the case was given revised instructions.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012

 

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