Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 3, 1988

Approximately 100 people attended the Boy Scouts Blue and Gold banquet held February 15 at the Mount Ayr American Legion building. Past Cubmasters from the area were honored. Those honored were Kelly MAIN, Terry BOESE, Bob SHAFER and Bob ERICKSON.

Elizabeth GREENE, an accounting clerk for Iowa Southern Utilities Company at Mount Ayr, received a plaque from the utility's director of marketing, Dean EKSTROM, for sales performance. During 1987 GREENE had three months in which she had achieved the greatest percentage increase in appliance sales from among the utility's 19 sales representatives.

A rural Tingley couple participated in the Land O'Lakes Young Farmer Program annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN February 22-25. Patrick and Brenda WEEDA were among those attending on the basis of their farming operation and their interest in community and cooperative involvement.

Five Grand Valley students have been representing their school lately in various honor festivals. The students are Racinda JACKSON, Stacie SHAUB, Rick VANDERFLUGHT, Randy JACKSON and Stacey FOLAND.

Raider state qualifiers Jeff SCOTT and Scott ENGLAND both fell to place winning opponents in the first round of the state wrestling tournament at Veterans Auditorium Thursday, Feb.25. Four Mount Ayr Community Raiderettes made the Tall Corn Conference all-conference girls basketball team announced this week. Leading the way were two first team selections -- senior forward Kim McGINNIS and senior guard Emily McALEXANDER. Senior guard Angel McDONNELL and sophomore guard Dawn HUFF made the second team in the selections.

Three records fell during the 1987-88 basketball campaign for the Mount Ayr Community Raiderettes which ended last week with the regional tournament loss to Bedford. The girls finished their season with a 17-6 record and third place in the Tall Corn conference in the last season for competition in that loop. Setting new records during the year were Kim McGINNIS and Dawn HUFF. McGINNIS, a senior forward, broke the school career scoring record with 2,849 points -- overcoming the old record of Kim HENRY of 2,213. McGINNIS also broke her own school record of the best field goal percentage in a single game when she poured in 13 of 17 shots from the field in the sectional win over East Union. Also setting a new school record this year was sophomore guard Dawn HUFF, who made 98 steals during the year to break the old mark set by Shelly TAYLOR last year with 93.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

 

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