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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 03, 2003
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr Community school district's new superintendent is William J.
DECKER. DECKER'S hiring was made official at a special meeting of the Mount Ayr Community school board Tuesday night
after a search process that saw the board interview four candidates in the past week. A contract paying DECKER $97,000
for the school year beginning July 1, 2003 was approved by the board at the meeting.
Vicki SICKELS of Mount Ayr was
honored for 10 years of service on the South Central Iowa Community Foundation board when the group held its June meeting
recently. SICKELS, who has been president of the board, was presented with an appreciation certificate and a clock for her
services. She is retiring from the board.
The Roberts Auto Inc. majors team recently competed in the Afton tournament
on June 13 and 14 and rated a first place placement. Coaches of the team were Dave INLOES and Mike ENGLAND. Players were
Cory ROBERTS, Tom HOSFIELD, Weston PIERSCHBACHER, Jeff INLOES, Devon RICHARDS, Brian STILL, Jeremy ENGLAND, Jordan LARSEN,
Garrett PETERSON, Mitchell GROSS, Malcom MERCER, Zach ROBINSON and Matt MERCER.
Robert TIDMAN, son of Richardand Sue TIDMAN
of Beaconsfield, graduated on May 5, 2003 from the John Deere Ag Tech program at Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar.
TIDMAN and his sponsoring dealer, Adams/Thompson in Winterset, were honored by NICC and John Deere Company at a banquet on
May 14 on the NICC campus. TIDMAN will be employed at Adams/Thompson as a service technician.
Summer rains and weather
have been good to plants in area gardens. A monster cabbage was grown in the garden of the Doug COLLIER family in Kellerton
this year. One of their biggest heads of cabbage was a 12-pounder that measured 32 3/4 inches around.
OBITUARIES in July 03, 2003 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Mary Katherine GERMAN BAGLEY
Elmer A. STARMER
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2013
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