Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 19, 2003

Deputy sheriff Mike SOBOTKA attended the city council meeting Monday night to share information on a grant that would place a video camera in one of the patrol cars that the city owns. The city and council participate it the STEP program, which calls for stepped up enforcement of such items as seat belt use. In return, grants are available for local law enforcement agencies.

Last June Ringgold county's astronaut Peggy WHITSON was heading into space for a six-month visit to the International Space Station, where she recorded many firsts, including being named the first science officer in space in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration program. This June WHITSON is off on another adventure-- this time spending two weeks at the bottom of the ocean -- as the first astronaut to compare experience in space with life underwater.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2013

 

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