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May 30, 2016
Pictured is the defibrillator the city of Rippey purchased in 2015 with funding assistance from the Greene County Community Foundation in the amount of $1,575. The defibrillator is housed in the Rippey Community room and available to anyone living in the community. The request was written by city clerk Mary Millard.
The city of Rippey matched the funding for the purchase of the defibrillator, and then some Rippey city council members and other Rippey citizens were trained in the use of the defibrillator and also training in CPR .
It is the third location in Rippey for a defibrillator, the other located at the Methodist Church, purchased through GCCF through a request from the Rippey Lion’s Club. The third defibrillator is aboard the Rippey fire truck. The fire department purchased it in 2014 with money from their fundraising efforts.
The city of Rippey is grateful to the Greene County Community Foundation in aiding with this purchase.
Rippey fire department will host training June 4: The Rippey fire department will host a training for its own members as well as area fire departments June 4 at 8 am at the fire station. The Smoke House will be coming from the Iowa state fire training group and will focus on training on the use of the air packs the departments have.
Announcement: The Rev Bob Cook will retire after 40 years as a pastor in the United Methodist Church. Everyone is invited to a reception on Friday, June 24, from 2 to 5 at Walnut Ridge at Clive, 1701 Campus Drive, Clive, IA.
Bob was pastor from 1978-1984 at the Grand Junction United Methodist Church and was a familiar face at Rippey events during that time. Cards may be sent to Bob at: 1120 42nd St, West Des Moines, IA 50266
Rippey United Methodist Church: PO Box 286, 103 West Main St. Rippey, IA 50235. Pastor: Paul Burrow, Pastor Rosa Soto. Phone: 515-436-7731
Children’s Sunday school at 9:30 am; adult Sunday school at 9:45 am; worship at 11 am. Every Tuesday, quilters at 9 am, coffee and fellowship at 10 am; Wednesday, choir at 7 pm.
Choir will not meet over the summer. There is a sign up sheet in Fellowship Hall for special music this summer. Share your talent with us!!
June 1: All Church meeting at 7 to discuss Healthy Church Initiative Program
June 2: Ladies Aid
Annual Conference will start June 3.
Fill the Truck: Annual Conference this year is asking for spiral notebooks, infant sleepers (not onesies), and hand towels and washcloths. They are also collecting money to buy water for the Flint, MI, water crisis. Please leave your donations in Fellowship Hall.
Sunday, June 5: Ordination Service at 9 am at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines. Dick and Jo Bardole’s son Andrew will be ordained during this service.
Ice cream social is Sunday, June 12.
There is a change in the Child’s Story Corner in Fellowship Hall. If you have donated books or read to a child in the community this year, let Angela Abbas or Nancy Bardole know so we can get our books and hours on our thermometer. Our goal is 440 books and 440 hours by next June
Rippey public library: Librarian, Katrina Buttler; phone: 515.436.7714; website: www.rippey.lib.ia.us; E-mail: rippeyli@windstream.net
HOURS: Monday 1-6 pm; Tuesday 2-6 pm; Wednesday 3-6 pm; Thursday 2-7 pm; Friday 3-6 pm.
