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RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, April 25, 1985
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr Record-News
From "dime store" to "family center," the P. M. Place stores in county seat towns in northern Missouri and southern Iowa
have been added one-by-one until last year. Now they number 32 stores, as the chain celebrates a 75th anniversary this year.
Five Ringgold county Futures Farmers of America members were named to the "Iowa Farmer Degree' and one, Peter HAYSE of
Mount Ayr, received the Iowa Star Agribusiness designation, one of the top awards in the FFA on the state level during
the 57th annual FFA state leadership conference in Des Moines last week. Names Iowa Farmers from Mount Ayr Community
high school FFA chapter were Peter HAYSE, Rod DAVISON and Rick RICHIE, while Jill SCHWALBE and Tracy LESAN were named
from the Grand Valley Community high school FFA chapter.
Three schools - Grand Valley, Diagonal, and Clearfield - have been involved in dialogue and information giving and
gathering sessions with representatives of Green Valley Area Education Agency in the past two weeks. The various
meetings were in response to complying with a new law, passed by the Iowa legislators last summer, regarding operating
schools with enrollment of 300 or less.
Car strippers only left the farme, major panels and the roof, along with four midget spare tires to roll the shell
along on, when they took everything imaginable and abandoned the rest in Ringgold county Monday on J-67 near the Ringgold-Decatur
county and Missouri-Iowa borders.
Mark HICKMAN was named the outstanding senior vocal music student with the American Choral Director's Association award
at the spring vocal music concert. He is the son of Janet and Lowell HICKMAN of rural Diagonal.
Wes ERAL has recently been named clinical supervisor at the Harold HUGHES Treatment Center at Ringgold County Hospital
in Mount Ayr.
OBITUARIES in April 25, 1985 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Hazel Idell MENDENHALL DAVIS
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2010
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