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Churches hosting Holy Week community servicesFairfield churches will host Holy Week community services beginning Monday.The service will be at noon each day, with a light lunch following.First Lutheran Church will host the service and lunch Monday.First Presbyterian Church will host the service and lunch Tuesday.Fairfield Friends Church will host the service and lunch Wednesday.St. Mary Catholic Church will ...

Fairfield High School officials have listed the students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2013-14 academic year. ?A? honor rollSeniors on the ?A? honor roll list, with an * denoting straight ?A?s,? include: Eden Bell, *Matthew Carr, *Joanna Funkhouser, *Hanna Greiner, *Joseph Hietpas, *Coren Hucke, *Makayla Kessel, *Taalia Larson, *McKenna Ledger, *Huma Liptak, *Paige ...

PACKWOOD ? Pekin Elementary School is planning its kindergarten registration for the next school year April 22 and its kindergarten classroom visit days May 1 and May 2.Any parents with children age 5 years old by Sept. 15, 2014, and interested in attending kindergarten at Pekin Elementary School during the 2014-15 school year, can attend kindergarten round-up registration from 3-6 p.m. April 22 in the Pekin ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR OPEN CLASS DEPARTMENTThe Open Class Department of the Greater Jefferson County Fair will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office.??? FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUBThe Fairfield Women?s Club will have a luncheon meeting at noon Wednesday at the McElhinny House.Patty Cutler will present the program ?Heartland Pregnancy Center.?After the program, a general business ...

Rita Hammes, with the help of her granddaughter, reads ?Story of the First Aprons? during the Jefferson County Health Center Auxiliary Spring Tea Friday afternoon at First United Methodist Church. ?Fiddling Granny? Joanne Ancell also entertained auxiliary members with ?Aprons in the Kitchen.? The tables were decorated with an easel holding the auxiliary?s cookbook; and was given to one lucky person at each table, ...

Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk has announced the awards for the April 4 Spring Garden Celebrations: Books In Bloom.First place and overall winner was the Carnegie Historical Museum. Curator Mark Shafer designed several displays focusing on the artwork in the collection through the ?Meaning of Flowers? and showcasing the books, journals and postcards from the era.From ?postcard posies, to Victorian dried ...

MILTON ? Roberta Dorson Boyd will celebrate her 80th birthday during an open house from 1-3 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion Hall in Milton.Family and friends are invited. No presents are requested.Mrs. Boyd?s 80th birthday was in March.

OTTUMWA ? The Southern Prairie Chapter of the American Red Cross celebrated its 2014 Heroes of the Heartland Friday at the Bridge View Center in Ottumwa.The 2014 Heroes of the Heartland include Ashley Hale-Smith, Jim and Darla Jackson, Josh Chance, Jim and Karen Dellinger and Jeff Hendred.Ashley Hale-Smith was driving home from work at Jefferson County Health Center in July when she saw a truck crash and burst ...

Scott Vaughan of the Fairfield Lions Club presents cash awards to the Fairfield High School students who sold the most tickets to the recent spaghetti dinner. From left are: MacKenzie McClure, third; Olivia Hammel, first; Vaughan; and Matt Carr, second. The spaghetti dinner, hosted by the Lions Club, Best Western Fairfield Inn and the Fairfield school district activities office, benefits the fine arts and spring ...

RUBIO BREAKFAST CLUBRUBIO ?The Rubio Community Breakfast Club will meet from 7-10 a.m. Saturday.??? BONNIFIELD QUESTERSThe Bonnifield Questers will meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the home of Sharon Galloway.???

The First National Bank Relay for Life team is raffling off a Pandora bangle bracelet, with three charms, as a fundraiser.Tickets are $2 each or $5 for three tickets.Tickets can be purchased at either bank location.The drawing will be at the Jefferson County Relay for Life event Sept 27.

AIB COLLEGE OF BUSINESSDES MOINES ? Stephanie Adam of Fairfield has been selected by the full-time accounting faculty at AIB College of Business as one of two Outstanding Accounting Students.Adam was recognized at a reception March 27 at AIB.Adam vied for the honor against 44 other accounting students who had attained a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher in all their AIB classes ? not just ...