When it was controversial to even think of asking parents about taboo subjects, the ACE Study dared to ask questions like, “Were you sexually abused as a child?”  “Did you have a parent who was an alcoholic?”  The answers produced a public health revelation.  For the first time, the loss of a parent through death, […]

Iowa’s “Healthiest State Initiative” will be promoting a state-wide walk on Wednesday, October 4, 2017.  All 99 counties will be participating with the goal of 30-minute continuous walks.  In Ringgold County, the event will be held at 6:00 PM at Judge Lewis Park in Mt. Ayr.  Participants should meet at the shelter house south of the […]

Fire Prevention Week is on record as the longest running public health observance, according to the National Archives and Records Administration’s Library Information Center. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week on October 4-10, 1925, beginning a tradition of the President of the United States signing a proclamation recognizing the occasion. It […]

A free showing of “Paper Tigers” is open to the public on Wednesday, October 11, at 6:30 PM, at the Princess Theater, 101 W. Monroe Street, in Mt. Ayr, Iowa.  “Paper Tigers” is an intimate look into the lives of selected students at Lincoln High School, an alternative school that specializes in educating traumatized youth.  […]