Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 21, 1988

The Maloy celebration held Sunday had new park facilities to make use of. A new shelter house and restrooms and a bridge across a ditch to connect the two as well as a new park sign are all recent improvements to the community park.

Racinda JACKSON of Kellerton was named district 18 beef queen following interviews and speaches given at a Friday, July 15, meeting at the Afton bank building. JACKSON is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard JACKSON of rural Kellerton and is the reigning Ringgold County beef queen.

The 42 members of the 1988-89 State 4-H Council, including three Ringgold county youth, received training recently in the Iowa 4-H Camping Center in Madrid. Among those participating were Billi HUNT and Bobbie HUNT of Diagonal and Emily McALEXANDER of Beaconsfield.

Thee gold medals, the result of firsts in state and national Tae Kwon Do tournaments, hand around the neck of Mount Ayr's new national champion, Billy HIGHTSHOE. HIGHTSHOE won a national first place at the USTU Junior Olympic Championship in Tampa, FL.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2013

 

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