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The Roosevelt Aquatic Center has scheduled Family Swim Night beginning this week.Family swimming is planned from 6-8 p.m. each Friday at the indoor pool.?This is a great time for your family to play together and meet other families and get some exercise,? states the organizers.The cost is $7 per family.Organizers explain a family consists of up to two parents/legal guardians and their dependent children under ...

The average amount of electricity consumed in U.S. homes has fallen to levels last seen more than a decade ago, back when the smartest device in people?s pockets was a Palm pilot and anyone talking about a tablet was probably an archaeologist or a preacher.Because of more energy-efficient housing, appliances and gadgets, power usage is on track to decline in 2013 for the third year in a row, to 10,819 kilowatt-ho...

Orders are due before Jan. 10 for the S.H.A.R.E. Iowa Inc. food packages.Orders can be placed by calling the St. Mary Catholic Church office at 472-3179 or the Southern Iowa Economic Development Association office at 472-6140. Orders also can be placed online at www.shareiowa.org.The pickup date will be at 8 a.m. Jan. 25 at the Fairfield Eagles Club.Several different main food packages are available; participan...

Wotherspoon retiringThe Rev. James Wotherspoon, pastor of First Baptist Church, is retiring.Sunday will be Wotherspoon?s final Sunday worship service.A farewell dinner and program for Wotherspoon and his wife Betsie, is planned at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the church. Chilcotes speaking SundayThe Reverends Bill and Ann Chilcote will be guest speakers at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Prophetic Kingdom Gathering at the ...

Fairfield Community School District will not serve breakfast or lunch during the coming week; the district?s winter break continues through Jan. 3.Information about the breakfast and lunch program can be found on the district?s website at www.fairfieldsfuture.org, where parents can deposit funds into and monitor their student?s lunch account.

The 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 ? Salisbury steak with gravy, oven-browned potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches, orange juice.Tuesday ? closed for New Year?s Eve.Wednesday ? closed for New Year?s ...

AMES ? Iowa farmers are increasingly concerned about herbicide-resistant weeds and are changing their weed management practices to deal with the issue, according to the 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll.?In this year?s poll, we directed herbicide resistance questions to farmers who planted corn, soybeans or other row crops in 2012,? said J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., a sociologist with Iowa State University Extension ...

OTTUMWA ? Tickets are available for the eighth annual eight-course gourmet dinner to benefit students in Indian Hills Community College?s culinary arts program. The dinner event will be held Jan. 24 in the Indian Hills dining room.Fatima Perez, Spain?s top mycologist and owner of Restaurant Fatima in the province of Castilla y Leon, will be returning to Indian Hills for the second consecutive year to work with ...

BIRMINGHAMMany awards were presented during the Birmingham Lions Club Christmas party Dec. 9.Monarch chevrons were presented to: Dean Hall, 45 years; Larry Smith, 15 years; Kriss Anderson, 15 years; Randy Householder, 10 years; and Ann Boley, 10 years.Attendance chevrons were awarded to: Dean Hall, 44; Gene Stine, 42; Harry Anderson, 38; Carroll Unkrich, 37; Van Meek, 31; George Manning, 31; Harold Dickinson, ...

AUGUSTANA COLLEGEROCK ISLAND, Ill. ? Shana Silverman from Fairfield was among the 839 students named to the dean?s list at Augustana College for the 2013 fall term.Students who have earned the academic honor maintained a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a four-point scale for courses taken during the term.Silverman is a senior at Augustana majoring in elementary education.

Personal trainer Kristy Clark will be leading both a four-week beginner weight-loss challenge and a four-week intermediate weight-loss challenge during January at the Roosevelt Community Recreation Center and Roosevelt Aquatic Center.?This is just what you need to get 2014 off to a health start,? said Clark.Clark explained the beginner weight-loss challenge is for the beginning exerciser. It will be low impact ...

STOCKPORTGarbage pick-up days for Stockport will be Friday due to Christmas and Jan. 3 due to New Year?s Day.­­­???The Stockport Public Library will be open from 9 am. to noon Thursday, from 3-6 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 2.? Beverly Runyon, Ledger correspondent