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The family of Jean Davis is honoring her with a card shower in celebration of her 90th birthday Wednesday.Cards and memories can be sent to Mrs. Davis at 106B E. Monroe Ave., Fairfield 52556.

Fairfield Park and Recreation Department is offering Morning Boot Camp at 5:30 a.m. and 6:15 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday Sept. 9 through Oct. 2 at Roosevelt Community Recreation Center.Morning Boot Camp is a 30-minute workout to get the day running and off to a great start.Participants are asked to sign up for each class they want to take.Each class size is set at a minimum of four and a maximum of 15.The ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMENThe Jefferson County Farm Bureau Women will meet at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 2 at Pizza Ranch in Fairfield.Julie Fiske will be hostess.John Sandbothe, regional Farm Bureau manager, will present the program.Roll-call response will be the population and climate of Russia.All interested women are invited to attend.??? VFW AUXILIARYThe Ladies Auxiliary to Dimmitt-Vorhies Post 2271 ...

The Fairfield Art Association?s recent weeklong End-of-Summer Younger Artist Class featured projects in clay sculpture, self portraits, designing, collage and watercolor. Holding their koi fish windsocks are students, from left, front row: Luke Porter, Elliot Ward, Katie Porter, Vanessa Kessel; and back row: Emmelia Miller, Cason Miller, Bella Buckley, Xavier Kessel and Ella Bentler. Student Taylor Sikora is not ...

Fairfield Middle School marching band rehearsals will be held today through Thursday in the early evenings at FMS to combine the seventh- and eighth-grade bands and preparation for the parade season.Rehearsals are scheduled for:? Today ? 4-5:30 p.m. for drums; 5:30-7 p.m. for flags.? Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ? 4-6 p.m. for all seventh- and eighth-grade band members.Treats will be served at approximately...

BIRMINGHAMNineteen members of the Over 50 and Fabulous Red Hat Ladies met for lunch Aug. 12 at Pizza Ranch in Fairfield.Sidney Goemaat played her clarinet for the program. ?Happy Birthday? was sung for those with August birthdays. Joyce Dorothy won the door prize. Doris Ramsey and Lois Nicholson were hostesses.? Arlene Lyon, Ledger correspondent

Roy Mitchell of Packwood will celebrate his 100th birthday from 2-4 p.m. Saturday at SunnyBrook Assisted Living Center.The celebration is being hosted by his children, including Steve Mitchell and wife Karyn of St. Charles, Illinois, Michael Mitchell of Batavia, Rob Mitchell and wife Lori of Fairfield, Julie Mitchell-Craig and husband Don of Marion. He also has two grandsons and one great-granddaughter.Mr. ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is proposing to amend rules that will allow dock permittees more flexibility in removing aquatic vegetation around boat docks and to create boating pathways to open water without a permit.The proposal will be discussed during two public meetings: 6 p.m., Aug. 28, at the DNR Wildlife Station, Balsam Avenue, Ventura; and 1:30 p.m., Sept. 4, in the fourth floor conference ...

British concert organist David Baskeyfield supplied the music to the silent film ?The Phantom of the Opera? Sunday at the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts. He performed on the Sondheim Center?s Barhydt Organ, a 21 rank, 1,800 pipe manual Möller organ.

The community is invited to view the Maharishi School gardens and greenhouse and find out more about its Seed to Table program from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday.To get to the greenhouse and gardens, go around the school inside the fence on the north side. A flower garden borders the outside of the greenhouse, and the courtyard contains fruit trees and a rose garden. The greenhouse houses a variety of raised vegetable beds, ...

DES MOINES ? The Iowa State Fair will honor active and retired military with special Veterans? Day =programming and discounts throughout the day Monday.Veterans will be honored with discounted gate admission Monday. With a military I.D., retired and active members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their spouses will receive $8 gate admission from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.Veterans? Day also will feature special patriotic ...

A tour, including a garden-to-table lunch, is planned Aug. 10 at Abundance EcoVillage north of Fairfield.When Abundance EcoVillage was first founded, ecovillages were rare. Now more are springing up around the world.Since December 2002 when Ken Walton moved into the first home at Abundance EcoVillage, 13 more homes have been added. All are still powered by the wind and sun. Power generated in Iowa from renewable...