The “Roll and Read” event sponsored by Ringgold County Parents as Teachers was held September 18 at 5:30 PM at the shelter house in the courthouse yard in Mt. Ayr.  Eight families with a total of 14 children participated in the event.  The group logged a mile by walking or riding in strollers or wagons […]

Food cravings have a lot less to do with biology and more to do with psychology.   Specific areas of the brain help create emotional connections with food and help form habits. Certain hormones are also released when you eat a food you really enjoy. Hormones, memories and other various mechanisms combine to create a sensory […]

To commemorate Wellmark’s 75th anniversary, they are awarding $7,500 each to a total of ten projects that will improve community health in Iowa and South Dakota . The proposed project in Mt. Ayr is an extension of the Ringgold County Trailway. The current trailway, maintained by Ringgold County, is two miles spanning from Highway 169 east to 250th Avenue. […]

Children 6 months and older should be vaccinated for flu as soon as vaccines are available and efforts to vaccinate children should continue as long as influenza viruses are circulating. Unless contraindicated for that child, vaccinate all children aged 2 through 8, preferentially with live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) if the provider supply allows. However, […]