Community

A new Dementia Caregivers? Support Group will have its first meeting from 1:30-3 p.m. Saturday in the Optimae Annex, which is the small building on northeast corner of Optimae?s parking lot.The new support group is sponsored in conjunction with Optimae Life Services. Plans are for the group to meet the first Saturday of each month.For more information, call 641-781-3303.Dementia is a progressive disease. A ...

Noah?s Ark Animal Foundation will host a community blood drive from 3-5:30 p.m. May 8 in its community room.All donors will receive voucher for an ?I Bleed Red? or ?I Bleed Blue? T-shirt.Donors who last gave blood on or before March 13 are eligible to give at this drive.For appointments to donate, contact Dawn Hauck at 472-6080 or visit www.bloodcenterimpact.org and use code 5377 to locate the drive.Potential ...

The Fairfield First Church of the Nazarene will resume its free community meals starting at 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of every month. Supper will be inside the Family Life Center between North Fourth Street and Briggs Avenue.All members of the community are invited to come out and enjoy food, fellowship and worship. For more information, contact the Rev. Dick Allen at 436-1040.

The following area houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through April 29.Any congregation wanting to have its calendar for the week of April 30 through May 6 published in The Ledger April 28 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday.Listings are not perpetually printed. A weekly or monthly calendar must be submitted for the listing to appear in The Fairfield Ledger; specify ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ? Unofficial results showed the minority Christian governor of the Indonesian capital was resoundingly defeated Wednesday by his Muslim challenger who swept up votes by appealing to a growing conservatism in the world's most populous Muslim nation.So called "quick counts" by 10 research companies show former Cabinet minister Anies Baswedan winning between 55 and 60 percent of votes with ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its lunch menu for the coming week.Elementary schools:Monday ? breakfast: mini doughnuts. Lunch: biscuits and gravy with sausage patty, Trojan Tots, carrot sticks, frozen fruit cup.Tuesday ? breakfast: pancake on a stick. Lunch: walking taco, peppy pinto beans, lettuce and cheese, craisins.Wednesday ? breakfast: smoothie with graham crackers. Lunch: turkey and ...

MT. PLEASANT (GTNS) ? When the flight attendant called out names for mail call during the 41st Honor Flight from Quincy, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., there was more than one Harrison name called.In fact, all five of the Harrison brothers ? Richard, 80, Robert, 77, Ronald, 73, Russell, 70 and Roger, 64 ? made the trip together.The idea came from second oldest, Robert.?I always wanted to go, but I didn?t want ...

Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its congregate meals menu for the coming week.Monday ? loose-meat burger, wheat hamburger bun, tater rounds, tomato slices, broccoli-cauliflower-raisin salad, banana.Tuesday ? roast pork loin, au gratin potatoes, lima beans, strawberries and peaches.Wednesday ? Swedish meatballs, spaghetti with vegetable salad, baby carrots, ambrosia salad.Thursday ? Italian chicken ...

First Baptist Church to host special speaker April 23The First Baptist Church in Fairfield will be having a special guest speaker during 10:15 a.m. worship service April 23.Tram Chamberlain will share her testimony of her confidence in Christ, with a ?hair-raising? story about her family?s escape from the Vietnam conflict when she was a young girl. Although her story might seem like the stuff movies are made ...

CHICAGO ?? Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos, Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, Illinois, will visit St. Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox Church, in Dubuque, at 11 p.m. Saturday, to celebrate Orthodox Easter services.Eastern Orthodox observe Easter, or Pascha (literally, ?Passover?), as the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ this year on Sunday.Four services, without pause between, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) ?? Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen inmates at a maximum security prison on Holy Thursday in a pre-Easter ritual meant to show his willingness to serve society's most marginal and give them hope. Francis urged the prisoners to help one another out and similarly "be the servant of others."Francis travelled to the Paliano detention center, located in a fortress south of Rome, to celebrate ...

A required meeting for Jefferson County 4-H?ers and FFA members planning to participate in the Jefferson County 4-H Dog Project will be 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the county fairgrounds.New dog project leader, Linda Selby, plans to provide information and then have participants start working with their dogs. This year, she plans to focus on obedience and dog handling classes and forego the agility class.Participants ...