An outbreak of crytosporidium, a parasitic disease caused by a protozoan parasite, has closed the Mount Ayr municipal swimming pool for Friday, July 30.

   Special elections will be held in five Ringgold county communities Tuesday, Aug. 3.

An election to name a member of the Mount Ayr city council will be held in Mount Ayr along with franchise elections  for sewer systems in Benton, Delphos, Redding and Maloy.

Registration for Ringgold county area schools will be held next week.

Registration in the Diagonal school district will be Monday, Aug. 2. The Mount Ayr Community school district will have registration Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 3-4. Registration in the Clearfield school district will be Thursday, Aug. 5.

  The first stop in the new season for the Iowa Junior High School Rodeo Association will be the rodeo this weekend at the Ringgold county fairgrounds.

 A team consisting mostly of Iowa State University students and alumni won the world Ultimate club championships for the sport of Ultimate in Prague, Czech Republic recently and a Ringgold county native was part of the group.

In fact Jon Staron and Ringgold county native Rachel Derscheid, who were recently married, joined another couple in making the trip to the world championships their honeymoon.

 Third place Mount Ayr Community was well represented on the 2010 Pride of Iowa conference softball teams.