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NEW LIBERTY ? Following a $3 million renovation, Camp Liberty, formerly Camp Conestoga, in New Liberty will open for the 2016 summer camp season.Campers will enjoy a new lodge with attached cabins and a state-of-the-art kitchen, as well as, an indoor riding arena and equestrian center so girls can ride rain or shine.Another exciting addition will be a high ropes course that offers eight elements, a 300-foot ...

First Presbyterian planning jazz service, brunch SundayFirst Presbyterian Church will have a jazz service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.The Rev. Joe Phipps, pastor of the church, will combine scripture and an inspirational message with music performed by a jazz ensemble.The ensemble, conducted by Jim Edgeton, will include Jeri Kunkle with vocals, Ken Burns and Rodger Gillaspie on saxophone, Francis Thicke on trumpet, ...

Orders are due before Feb. 5 for the SHARE Iowa Inc. food packages available in February.Orders can be placed locally by calling the Sieda Community Action office at 472-6140 or Claudia Greenig at 472-3569.Pickup will be at 8 a.m. Feb. 20 at the Fairfield Eagles Club.Several different packages are available; participants can purchase one or more in any combination.The $28 Best Value Package includes: 1.26 ...

OTTUMWA ? The 2016 Indian Hills Community College Cabaret will be presented at 1 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7, in the Hills Dinner, located by the library on the IHCC Ottumwa campus.The Cabaret is an annual collaboration between the performing arts and culinary arts departments at the college and will feature fun music, live theatre and a feast fit for the Super Bowl.Patrons will be treated to a high-energy...

Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week.Meals are served at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday at the Fairfield senior center and at noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Lockridge senior center.Monday ? spaghetti with meat sauce, pea salad, apricot halves, 100 percent wheat bread with margarine, orange juice.Tuesday ? turkey tetrazzini, green beans amandine, Tomato Spoon ...

The following area houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through Feb. 6.Any congregation wanting to have its calendar for the week of Feb. 7-13 published in The Ledger Feb. 5 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 if the submitted ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast: assorted cereals, assorted cereal/Nutri-Grain bars/toast, orange juice/fruit, milk. Lunch: pig-in-a-blanket, baked beans, peas, fresh apple, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast: assorted cereals, eggs or cereal/Nutri-Grain bars, orange ...

Polishville Community Center will start its 2016 events with two dances in February.The first dance, weather permitting, is scheduled for Feb. 7, with Ned Francis of Mount Sterling providing the music. Food will be sold beginning at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6-9 p.m.The second dance, also weather permitting, is scheduled for Feb. 21, with Larry Goodman of North English providing the music. Food will ...

FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUB GARDEN DEPARTMENTThe Fairfield Women?s Club Garden Department will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at SunnyBrook Assisted Living for coffee and a social hour with a short business meeting.Anyone interested in attending the Garden Department meeting should call 472-4248.???RETIRED SCHOOL PERSONNELThe Jefferson County Unit of the Iowa Retired School Personnel met Wednesday at SunnyBrook for a ...

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYAMES ? Mason Ellis of Fairfield was among the more than 8,370 Iowa State University undergraduates recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the 2015 fall semester dean?s list.Students named to the dean?s list must have earned a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded course work.Ellis is a second-yea...

Editor?s note: The monthly To Your Heath column is a venue for Jefferson County Health Center to provide health information that will benefit The Fairfield Ledger?s readers.To suggest ideas for future articles or to obtain information, call Jefferson County Health Center community relations manager Wanda Bagby at 469-4198. The month of January has a reputation. People overindulged during the holidays with ...

Women?s circle meeting TuesdayMaxine Bates Circle of First Baptist Church will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday.Margaret Stephens will be hostess.The women will be tying a quilt and rolling bandages, so those attending are asked to bring scissors. Church hosting monthly soup supper ThursdayFirst Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will have its January soup supper from 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday.The menu will include ...