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The Ruthven ZipcodeThe Ruthven Zipcode is published weekly by Palo Alto County Publications, 104 West Robins Street, Graettinger, Iowa 51342

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SCHNEIDER SERVICE

Full Service Gas & Garage Service

Mon – Fri 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“We Sell Tires & Battery’s We Do Oil Changes and Check/Replace Brakes, Tune-Ups and

More”712-837-5476

Ruthven

Farm and Home ServicesBob Banwart, Real Estate BrokerRelocations & Referrel Services3350 340th Ave Ruthven, Iowa 515-954-0361 712-837-5392

Norgaard Sand & Gravel of Dickens

Call 712-836-2345

2935 Highway 18 Dickens, Iowa 51333

Shear Illusions Hair & Tanning Salon

Hours: Closed Sun. & Mon.; Tues 9-4;Wed. & Thurs. 12-9; Fri. 9-4 & Sat by appt. only

712-837-4868

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JEREMY 712-260-3918 OR BRICE 712-260-4536

Goff Insurance Agency Auto ~ Home ~ Farm

Tammy Kruckman • 837-5288

Industrial Commercial ServiceK W Electric

4364 360th Street • 877-852-9077 • Emmetsburg Iowa

Kevin Jasa’s Tree ServiceTree services, Tree removal, Stump Removal, Stump Grinding and Tree Pruning(712) 362-5526 609 N. 13th Street, Estherville, IA

Free Will Offering

Ayrshire Community Breakfast

Pancake, Omelets & Sauageat the

Ayrshire Comm. Center on Sunday, March 3

from 8:00-12:30

Your Support Will Be Appreciated

Ten Years Ago, February 25, 2009 Alicia Stoermer Clark, a 1996 graduate of Ruthven/Ayrshire, has re-

turned to the area from Omaha along with her family to manage the RCCC Villa Senior Apartments.

Chelsea Zaragoza of Ruthven is a member of the Buena Vista Univer-sity Concert Choir and they will be performing locally in Spirit Lake this weekend.

The ‘BABES’ puppet family put on a presentation on decision making to the R/A 2nd graders this week and controlling those puppets were Elaine Hermanson, Ruth Miller, Marlys Jensen, Phyllis Peterson, Pat Alger and Lu Eaton.

Pastor Roger Maize lost his beard as Marilyn Ruehle shaved it off yes-terday to kick off the Quasquicentennial Beard Contest. It was the first time folks has saw the pastor without a beard.

A card shower is being held by the family in honor of the 90th birthday of Delores Geelan of Ruthven.

Eighteen Years Ago, February 21, 2001 Josie England and Rex Wilson were crowned King and Queen during

the Ruthven Care Centers Valentine party on Friday. Vera Whiting played several piano selections during the party.

The Lakeland Raiders are sending three wrestlers to Vet’s Auditorium and the state wrestling tourney 2001. 130 pounder Lawton Westergard, heavyweight Mike Grund and 215 pounder Shawn Morris.

Lori Schany of Ruthven received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Ad-ministration from the University of Northern Iowa.

The Thunderbird Steak House & Lounge in Ruthven is now featuring Friday night shrimp dinner or fish dinner with choice of potato and coleslaw for $4.99.

Forty Eight Years Ago, March 5, 1970 Fire partially destroyed the Arnold Roland home on Wednesday night.

They have had bad luck as last year, fire destroyed their frozen food locker in town.

Mary Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, was named as Crescent Girl, women’s auxiliary of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

The Highland Happy Hustlers Jr. 4-H met at the home of Tanya Cacek with Patricia Hanson leading the pledges. Giving a talk was Debbie Ruehle on ‘Making Placemats.’

Steve Wigdahl has had the misfortune to slip on the ice and fall. He received a painful wrist injury. Ruby Peterson has her arm in a sling as she fell and broke it. And Dean Cress is confined to his home with a bad ankle sprain he got when falling.

Linda Salton left Ames with the Iowa State Singers on a 12 day tour of the eastern United States.

Sixty Eight Years Ago, February 21, 1951 The Freeman Farm Club met last week at the town hall with Harold

Hamilton conducting the meeting. Mrs. L.A. White showed a film of their vacation and lunch was served by Mrs. Louie Sorenson, Mr. and Mrs. John Flack and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Toland.

Locals called to serve on the district court roster include Harley Bigger, Harrison Goff, Art Rasmussen and Ivan Oppedal of Highland Township; Otto Wegele, Mrs. W.F. Johnson and Alden Wigdahl of Silver Lake Town-ship; and Wilmer Petersen and Clarence Thu of Lost island Township.

The Ruthven Conservation Association has been contacting the State Conservation Department concerning the removal of the fish trap between Lost Island Lake and the Growing Pond.

Iowa Public Service Company which provides electricity to Ruthven wants you to electrify all your out buildings and farm buildings as electric-ity is low cost. The average Ruthven consumer uses 78 KWH which costs $3.95 a month.

You can now get a sack full of Pilot Brand Oyster Shells for just a dollar at Roland Produce in Ruthven.

Ruthven/Ayrshire

Lunch Menu -Breakfast/Milk Served Daily-

Monday March 4:Pulled pork sandwiches, chips,

calico beans, pearsTuesday March 5:

Hot ham & cheese sandwiches,carrots, apple, cookie or bar

Wednesday March 6:Pasta/marinara sauce, lettuce

salad, breadstick, orangeThursday March 7:

Crispito w/cheese & lettuce,corn, rosy applesauce

Friday March 8:Cheesy French bread, green

beans, strawberries

Ruthven Snow Report

Date/ Amt / Total Season Snow February 3 Tr. 15.5February 5 1.0 16.5February 7 2.0 18.5February 12 4.0 22.5February 17 5.5 28.0February 20 7.0 35.0February 22 .5 35.5February 24 8.0 43.5

Current Snow Cover Base: 20 inches

Arts On Grand is excited to an-nounce “Soul Happy Art” by Deb Madsen Burow in the gallery now until March 30th. Her cheerful, whimsical and colorful paintings are like a breath of fresh air in the end of winter, reminding us of the spring. During the month, Debbie will also be teaching two one-night watercolor classes from 6:30 pm- 8:30 pm on March 12th or 20th. Call Arts On Grand to reserve your spot! (712) 262-4607. This class is great for beginners or more advanced students who would like pointers. Parents are encouraged to bring teens and share the experience together!

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UnapprovedRuthven-Ayrshire Board of Education Regular Monthly Meeting MinutesMonday, February 11, 2019, 6:00 PMRoom 214 - Board RoomThe Ruthven-Ayrshire Board of

Education held its regular meeting with the following in attendance;

Larry Conlon, Tracy Enderson, Stephanie Fay, Bruce Long, Darin Malm, Heather Ruehle, Susan Sikora, Jon Josephson, Andrew Woiwood and Alyssa Enderson. Absent: Kelli Har-mon. AEA Skyped in: Josh Bader and Michelle Dowed. Guests: Schnurr and Co. and John Clouse. All motions were unanimous unless otherwise noted.

I.Call to Order & Pledge of Alle-giance - President Long at 6:00 p.m.

II. Review of District Mission State-ment - Malm

III.Approve the Agenda - Motion by Enderson to approve the Agenda with moving item 8. Early Retirement up to Business Item Number 2. Second Fay. Motion carried.

IV.Welcome Visitors and Guests - President Long

V.Board Learning - NoneVI.Communications Citizens or organizations in atten-

dance - None 2. Received through the mail - None 3. Through Board Members - NoneVII. Business & Action Items -1. Audit Report - Schnurr and Com-

pany - presented the audit report to the school board Members. Motion by Conlon to approve the Audit Re-port. Second by Sikora. Motion car-ried.

2. Early Retirement - Motion by Malm to approve early retirement for Mr. Clouse with full insurance until age 65 and $25/unused sick days. Second Fay. Motion carried.

3. Consent Items - Motion by Fay to approve the consent items. Second by Enderson. Motion carried.

a. Minutes - January 14, 2019 Board Minutes were approved as is.

b. Approval of Bills/Claimsc. Financial Reports - Presented by

Alyssa Enderson, School Board Of-ficial.

d. Activity Calendar for March - The regular School Board Meeting will be heldMonday, March 11 at 6:00 p.m.

e. Field Trip - Vocal Music - Jazz Choir in Algona

on February 4th, State Jazz resched-uled to February 12th, Shake the Lakes - HS Jazz will be February 16th.

Junior Class- Career Exploration Day at Estherville ILCC Campus. Fri-day, February 22, 2019. Mr. Borchers - instructor.

Junior Class - College Fair and tour at Estherville ILCC Campus. March 7th. - Mr. Borchers - instructor.

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List Of Claims Paid2/18/2019Ruthven / Ayrshire C.S.D. (FY 18-19)February ~ 2019G e n e r a l 62.40 A & M Laundry Mops and H 620.14 Access Systems Leasing Monthly Co 374.95 Aflac Aflac Paya 10.00 Allie Peterson Fingerprin 341.45 Amazon Capi-tal Services, Inc. VIZIO SB29 300.00 Anna Davis Fall Conce 956.00 Apple, INC. Personaliz299.85 AssetGenie, Inc. MOTHERBOAR3,493.64 CAM Commu-nity School 1st Semest777.75 Cartridge Connec-tion, INC. Remanufact308.49 Central Iowa Dis-tributing, INC. Boiler Sup300.32 City Of Ruthven R-A School271.46 Atlantic Coca-Co-la Bottling Coca-Cola 770.00 Control Sys-tem Specialist Library He175.00 Cornwall, Av-ery, Bjornstad, Resolution458.38 Decker Equipment Signs - To210.00 Decorah Band Boosters Tri-State 1,000.00 EMC Insurance Legal Clai90.00 Emmetsburg Chiro-practic, Inc DOT Physic24,873.20 Emmetsburg Community 1st Semest171.20 Gator Plumbing & Drain Drain and 26.80 Graettinger Market FCS Suppli400.00 Harris Sanitation Monthly Ga250.00 Hartford Tsa/Ira/An2,011.50 Hauff Mid Amer-ica Sports Girls Bask 64,502.58 Hoglund Bus Co., Inc. Purchase B1,100.00 Valic Tsa/Ira/An20,074.38 Iowa Public Empl. Ret. IPERS24,863.47 Iowa School Employee Medical In26,041.13 Iowa State Bank/Ruthven Fica119.35 John Clouse JClouse Ja132.00 KILR FM, KILR AM Radio - Pr308.00 Lakeland E-Z Stoppe Fuel - Lak77.92 Malm, Brandie Elem PBIS 1,156.52 Mid Ameri-can Energy R-A School1,104.86 Palo Alto Co Engineer Diesel for52.00 Palo Alto Co Hospital Tim Murphy1,239.20 Paper Corporation 40 Cartons2,320.99 Phonak Hear-ing Systems Roger Touc13.75 Prairie Lakes AEA 8 Media Prod47.00 Presto X Co. Pest Contr256.90 Infosys Mc-Camish Systems Life Insur136.90 Pro Coop Pro Coop -165.12 Ruthven Zipcode Legals and368.50 Ruthven/Ayr-shire School Due to Lun215.04 School Specialty Office Sup44,254.66 Spencer Comm Schools SPED Tuiti4,339.00 Treas. State Of Iowa State Inco87.12 Verizon Wireless Cell Phone1,385.67 Visa Card Services 4 rolls of238.00 Andrew P Woiwood AWoiwood JGeneralBank Account Total 233,152.59Lunch1,187.58 Dean Foods Purchase F4,634.10 Martin Broth-ers Distributing Food ServiLunchBank Account Total 5,821.68District Total 238,974.27

Proceeding of the Ruthven Ayrshire School Board

Unit to County Maid in West Bend. Feb-ruary 26th or March 5th. Mrs. Myers - instructor.

4. Personnel - Motion by Enderson to approve the resignation of Ryan Sikora as Head Varsity Baseball Coach. Second by Fay. Motion carried. Abstain: Sikora.

5. 2019-2020 Master Calendar - Pub-lic Hearing - Motion by Sikora to ap-prove the 2019-2020

Master Calendar. Second by Fay. Motion carried.

6. Budget Guarantee Resolution - Motion Conlon to approve the Bud-get Guarantee Resolution. Second by Enderson. Motion carried.

7. Open Enrollment - Motion by Enderson to approve the Open Enroll-ment of JM to Spencer and JG to Spen-cer. Second by Fay. Motion carried.

8. Joint Board Meeting Agenda - The Annual Joint Board Meeting with Graet-tinger-Terril is planned for Wednes-day, February 13th at 6:00 p.m. in Graettinger. A draft of the Agenda wasp-resented.

9. Early Retirement - was moved up to item 2 of the Business and Action Items.

VIII. Recognition of Staff and Stu-dents

A. “Good News Sharing” - in the Principal/Superintendent Reports

IX. Principal/Superintendent Reports A. Principal ReportGood News Sharing: 1. 3 G-T/R-A Wrestlers Advanced to

the State Tournament after winning 1st or 2nd place finishes Saturday at the District Wrestling Meet at Lake Mills.

2. The GT/RA Girls Basketball Team advanced in the Regional Tourna-ment with a victory over Clay Central-Everly Friday night. The Titans will play George-Little Rock at George tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. (weather permitting).

3. The JH Show Choir under the di-rection of Mr. Tim Nielsen did a good job at their performance at ILCC January 23rd.

4. Preparations for the Iowa State-wide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP) are going well. Last week we conducted a building wide technology test.

5. The replacement bus arrived to-day!

6. Late starts have impacted instruc-tion time for the English, Social Studies, and Science Classes offered at R-A in the morning.

7. I was registered for the Iowa School Law Conference at School Ad-ministrators of Iowa Tuesday morning. I have had to cancel. SAI will be issuing a full refund.

8. Midterm has been extended through Tuesday.

9. Seniors are working on plans for graduation. Caps and gowns have ar-rived. Senior Prep Class is working on the Graduation Program. Titan JAM pre-sentations are scheduled for Tuesday, April 9th. Graduation will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 12.

10. 8th Graders will participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress test on Wednesday, January 20th. This test is administered randomly across the United States annually by the National Center for Educational Statistics within the U.S. Department of Education and is used to generate the Nation’s Report Card.

11. The Middles School Staff is plan-ning the annual Spring Field Trip. They are planning on an Iowa Cubs game in

Des Moines as the main activity. 12. Several G-T/R-A Speech groups

have advanced from District Large Group Contest to State Speech Con-test which was held Saturday, February 2 at Spencer. Many Division 1 ratings were earned. Individual State Speech will be February 23rd.

13. The Titan Wrestling team placed 2nd at Sectionals earning a spot in the District Team Duals at Emmetsburg last Tuesday. At team duals, G-T/R-A defeated Central Springs, but fell to Emmetsburg for the team champion-ship.

14. 7 Titan Wrestlers competed in the District Wrestling Meet @ Lake Mills Saturday after advancing from Section-als the week before at Manson. Besides the three that advanced to state, Cade Stearns, Cade Steelman and Spencer Roth each took 3rd place spots. Brett Triggs finished 4th.

15. The Boys Basketball team will open up District Tournament play Thurs-day, February 14 @ Paullina vs. Central Lyon. Tip Off is at 6:30 p.m

B. Superintendent ReportProfessional DevelopmentFriday, January 25th - AEA - Trisha

and Master Teacher- Becky - met with every reading teacher to review most recent testing and using the results to drive reading instruction.

February 15th - PD - Friday;s profes-sional development will be in individual buildings. Details will be confirmed next week. Kate will be making breakfast casserole for each building. Lunch will be on your own.

R-A Elementary: 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - IReady Math. PM - Early Literacy Blue Print and ISASP.

R-A MS/HS: SAMI (Self-Assessment of MTSS Implementation) and ISASP information.

G-T Elementary: AM Curriculum Writ-ing and ISASP, 12:00 to 3:00 IReady Math.

G-T MS/HS: AM MTSS and Data Protocal. PM Microcredential Work and ISASP.

No Boundaries G-T/R-A Sophomores and Juniors:

You will have the opportunity to hear from a team of Iowa BIG North students on Monday, February 11 at 11:50 a.m. in the Graettinger Gym for the rollout of the No Boundaries Project. The stu-dents from Iowa BIG North will be here to share the model of work-embedded, problem-based learning that No Bound-aries will be modeled after and will be available to you in the Fall of 2019. Watch the following video for a preview of what this is all about and email Mr. Benedict if you have questions you’d like answered before Monday. mbene-dict@gt.ratitans.org.

Teacher Leadership and Compensa-tion - TLC -

January - https://www.smore.com/p9n6b

TLC National Convention - New Or-leans - March 21 - March 24

2019-2020 Budget - Workshop was postponed.

Preliminary tax rate for FY20-11.6 Tuition to G-T using PPEL/SILO

funds. Negotiations - Michelle received a

call from ISEBA with the 2019-2020 insurance rates. I have not heard from RAEA to start negotiations. R-A’s rate increases are as follows: 1) Medi-cal - 5.31% increase, 2) LTD/Life - 0% increase, 3) Voluntary dental - 1.5% increase, 4) Voluntary Vision - 0% no charge.

Buildings and Grounds - Summer 2019 - Working on summer 2019 proj-ects.

State Reporting - SRI - Winter Report has been submitted.

Palo Alto County Gaming - 1) Priority Letter 2019 - sent in 2) Banquet - March 1st at 5:30 p.m.

Profile of Savings - Letter and Profile of Savings

Upcoming Events - 1) February 13th - Joint Board Meeting, 2) March 1st - PACG Banquet, 3) March 19 and 21 - P/T conferences.

X. Information Items: 18-19 Calendar - We have missed 4

days of school and will make them up on May 24, May 28, May 29 and May 30.

XI. Adjourn - Motion by Enderson to adjourn the meeting at 8:12 p.m. Sec-ond by Fay.

Motion carried. The next board meeting will be Monday, March 11, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

Kelli Harmon, Board Secretarypublished Februrary 27, 2019

Spencer Hospital Named One of the Top 100 in Nation

Spencer Hospital has again been named one of the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals in the United States, earning the designation for the fourth consecutive year. The na-tion’s top rural hospitals are recog-nized annually by the Chartis Center for Rural Health.

Regarded as one of the indus-try’s most significant designations of performance excellence, the an-nual Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals award is based upon the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX® developed by iVantage Health Analytics.

"Our medical staff and health-care team have demonstrated yet again the quality and consistency of their performance year over year" said Bill Bumgarner, Spencer Hos-pital president. "I’m pleased that their exceptional work and commit-ment is being recognized among the top 100 community hospitals in the nation for the fourth straight year."

Spencer Hospital and the com-munity hospital in Fort Dodge are the only hospitals in Iowa to be recognized in all four years that the Chartis Center has recognized mid-sized rural community hospitals for excellence.

"This recognition represents a clear dedication to advance Spen-cer Hospital’s clinical and business practices over many years," said Bumgarner. "It also reflects how our talented physicians and skilled employees adapt as the healthcare industry changes. Our team per-forms at a high level. Yet it also re-alizes we must continually embrace change to enhance the care and ser-vices offered to patients throughout northwest Iowa."

iVantage identifies top perform-ing hospitals by aggregating hospi-tal-specific data for over 50 service and outcome variables across eight pillars of performance, resulting in an overall hospital strength index. The majority of data used in the study is derived from public sourc-es. Areas in which top hospitals particularly distinguish themselves include quality and outcomes; pa-tient safety; patient satisfaction; and costs and charges.

"In an era of increased complex-ity and uncertainty, Top 100 hospi-tals have established themselves as a bellwether for rural provider per-formance," said Michael Topchik, National Leader of The Chartis Center for Rural Health.

It’s just what ‘good ol’ boys’ do – go fishing and have fun whether they are biting or not. And having fun in this ice shack during the Cabin Fe-ver Youth Ice Fishing at the Lost Island Nature Center was (L-R) Trace Willrett, Brax Zimmerman and Myles Mart.