Welcome to Jennifer Creveling, who will be providing Parent Educator services through our Parents as Teachers program.  She attended training in St. Louis, Missouri, during the week of March 16.  Since her return, she has been accompanying program director Robin McDonnell on home visits to become acquainted with the agency’s PAT families. Pictured below is Robin McDonnell […]

Every day children see tobacco advertisements or someone smoking, and every day an average of 3,000 kids start to smoke.  Cigarette smoking kills more people each year than alcohol, drugs, homicide, fires, automobile accidents and AIDS combined.  Sixty percent of all smokers started smoking when they were 13, while kids as young as five years […]

Dr. Max Mekus, DVM, resigned from the Board of Health in January 2015.  He had served on the Board for 26 years.  Pictured below, Becky Fletchall, RN, BSN, nurse administrator of Ringgold County Public Health, presents to Dr. Mekus a certificate of appreciation from the Iowa Department of Public Health. Board of Health members are volunteers who are appointed […]

Mount Ayr has been chosen again as one of 14 hosts for the Live Healthy Iowa 5K Run/Walk as well as a 1K Kid’s Run this spring.  The state-wide events will be held Saturday, April 11.  Register now at livehealthyiowa.org.  The registration fee is $20.  Participants in the 10-Week Wellness Challenge will receive $10 off their 5K […]