Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 20, 2003

Three pedestrians were struck by a car, which went on to hit a tree in a front yard, in an accident in Mount Ayr Monday afternoon shortly after school let out for the day. A car, driven by David HYMBAUGH, 17, of Mount Ayr, hit three students who were waling on the side walk -- 14-year-old Chad KINGERY, 15-year-old Jimmy MACKEY and 12-year-old David RUSSELL. KINGERY and MACKEY are freshmen at Mount Ayr Community high school and RUSSELL is a sixth grader at Mount Ayr Community elementary school. HYMBAUGH is a junior at Mount Ayr Community high school. All four youth were taken to Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr and James MACKEY and Chad KINGERY were transferred to Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines.

The Mount Ayr city council moved to name a new short street in the city so that the city would not have a street address with a fraction in it under the 911 addressing scheme. In an ordinance passed Monday night and published in today's Mount Ayr Recod-News, a new street called Deerview Lane was officially named. The new street starts on the south side of West Columbus and runs south 428 feet near property owned by Dick STILL.

Doug SMITH, M.D., recently gave his letter of resignation as a member of the hospital's medical staff, effective December 31, 2003. SMITH was hired in February of 2002 and worked part-time at the hospital and medical clinic.

Bernard CRAWFORD was named the Lion of the Year for the Mount Ayr Lions Club at the club's November meeting by club president Charles HAWKINS. CRAWFORD has been a Lions Club member for 10 years and was a member of the Mount Ayr Volunteer Fire Department for 25 years. He is also commander of the Sons of the American Legion chapter and belongs to the American Heart Association and United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Marla, also a Lions Club member, have two sons.

After several weeks of stripping the building, the First Baptist Church in Mount Ayr began coming down in earnest early this week. The First Baptist and Presbyterian groups in Mount Ayr are joining together and making decisions on a new building that the two groups will share.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013

 

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