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Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa Thursday, May 07, 1992
by Chanse Hall, Mount Ayr Record-News
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Dr. Tim Swinton and family, formerly of Mount Ayr, were evacuated from Sierra Leone after a military coup overthrew the government.
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Nathan Smith, a Mount Ayr Community High School junior, won the Iowa State Citizen Bee competiton for the second straight year in a contest held in Johnston Saturday.
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Todd Derscheid, a Mount Ayr Community high school junior, received honorable mention in the extemporaneous speaking I contest at the National Business Professionals of Amercia conference in Cincinnati, OH over the weekend.
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Five new trees were planted on the Mount Ayr Community High School grounds by MACHS FFA chapter members as part of the Trees Forever project in Mount Ayr last week.
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Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2017
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