Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 22, 1988

Bill LEEPER and Amy AKERS were crowned as the royalty for the Grand Valley community homecoming festivities Friday night. The Tigerettes won their ball game over Mormon Trail 83-47 while the Tigers dropped an 84-47 contest. LEEPER is the son of Dave and Doris LEEPER of Kellerton while AKRS is the daughter of Monte and Carol AKERS of Kellerton. Other candidates for the royalty included king candidates Mike VANDERFLUGHT, Jeff HEWLETT and Scott MUNYON, and the queen candidates Teresa GAGE, Gina BROWN and Angie GODDEN.

If you happen to be watching the Aloha Bowl on Christmas Day, it's likely you'll see a familiar face smiling back at you during the pre-game and half-time entertainment. Mount Ayr Community high school senior Jamie JONES will be one of the 335 select participants that will make up the National Cheerleading Association's Superstar Dance Team and Spiritleaders at the Eagle Aloha Bowl on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. JONES received this prestigious honor at a drill team camp in Ames earlier this July.

Ringgold county will have a county engineer as of January 1, 1989. It will involve a sharing arrangement with Decatur county Vauhgn CLARK. Decatur county engineer for the last 21 years, signed a contract last Tuesday to become the Ringgold-Decatur county engineer.

Some Mount Ayr men took top honors in the November American Legin district bowling tournament in Oskaloosa. The locals bowled November 3. A team of Sam TAYLOR, Jake DAILEY, Laurance BISHOP and Don BEAR placed third. DAILEY was first in singles. TAYLOR was third and BRAND, eighth. In doubles, TAYLOR and DAILEY were first and BRAND and a partner from Oskaloosa were third. TAYLOR was first in all events and DAILEY ninth.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013

 

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