School vouchers wrong
To the editor: In a glitzy ad campaign, a folksy Governor Kim Reynolds is trying to sell her so-called School Choice plan of tax payer funded “vouchers” so parents can send their kids to private schools. It is hard to see how the citizens of Ringgold County in the Diagonal and Mount Ayr Community Schools…
Read MoreLooking Back with Lora Stull
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 24, 1923.) Jarnagin’s Weekly: E.R. Harlan, curator of the State Historical Department, has been giving special study and investigation to the historical setting of the Indian tribes who at various stages in the somewhat remote past occupied what is now Iowa. He says that the…
Read MoreCouple recounts Ukrainian experience
Laura and Volodomyr Kisarets, of Rivne Ukraine, are currently visiting family in Ringgold County, and sat down with the Record News to talk about their experiences. Laura is a 1998 graduate of Mount Ayr community high School. She is also the daughter of Carol Anne (Gilliland) and Bob Galloway. After earning her degree in elementary…
Read MoreLocal house is a total loss to fire
Last week, the house Wesley Dorsett was renting caught fire and burned to the ground. According to his daughter Jerney, the fire department came earlier in the day and thought they had extinguished the fire completely. At approximately 2 a.m. neighbor, Bill Schaefer, saw the house on fire again and called the fire department. Though…
Read MoreDouble lung transplant recipient recounts her 27- year experience
In 1986, at the age of 19 Amy Ford was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. Ford explained this is a condition with no known cure, and without a transplant is universally fatal. She stated that she was told by doctors, there was almost no chance she would make it through the next 20 years, she most…
Read MoreCouncil discusses properties, food truck ordinance
Discussion on the creation of a food truck ordinance, and the sale of city owned properties, were the main points of action at the January 16 Mount Ayr city council meeting. City Superintendent, Brent Wise, commented that there are an increasing number of food trucks in the area. The creation of a new ordinance would…
Read MoreLOIS ANITA Lacock
Lois Anita Dubbe, daughter of Rev. Herman John Henry Dubbe and Augusta Amelia (Wegner) Dubbe, was born December 1, 1921, in Milford, NE. She passed away on January 1, 2023, at her home near Diagonal, IA, at the age of 101 years. Lois graduated from Fort Dodge High School in 1939 and attended business school…
Read MoreEVANGALINE KAY SWALLOW
Evangeline Kay, daughter of Clair Orr and Lillie Lucille (Lucas) Willey, was born November 18, 1937, at Mount Ayr, IA. Kay grew up in Mount Ayr and graduated from Mount Ayr High School in 1956. She furthered her education at Graceland College where she majored in Home Economics. On February 2, 1958, Kay was united…
Read MoreBEULAH L. HARTMAN
On June 16, 1924, Beulah L. was born to Frank and Loretta Patterson Parkis in Guthrie County, IA. The family was later joined by a brother, Robert. Moving from that farm to Adair County as a small child, she attended rural school. She graduated from Greenfield High School in 1941. She worked at a dairy…
Read MoreLORETTA ANN CORDELL
Loretta Ann (Lantz) Cordell age 84 of Redding, IA, died peacefully on January 9, 2023, after a long bout with COPD. Ann was born January 13, 1938, in Redding, IA, to Vernon William and Lorene Freda Norris Lantz. With the exception of a few years in California during the War, Ann grew up in Redding,…
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