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 […]

Participating families in the Ringgold County Parents as Teachers program have expressed an interest in a children’s book exchange. Sometimes parents tire of reading the same books to their children every day. A book exchange would allow parents to “trade” an old book for a “new” one. The first exchange will be held at the […]