Community

P.E.O. CHAPTER MBP.E.O. Chapter MB will have a regular meeting at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at 1015 E. Harrison Ave.Deb Reid Buch will be hostess, with Janan Twohill and Deb Carlson as co-hostesses.Ellen Waterbury will have a program on artist P. Buckley Moss.

BIRMINGHAMA NordicFlex Ultra Life machine, with an instruction book, has been donated to the Healthy Villages exercise room in the Birmingham Jet Stop.The exercise room also has two treadmills, a recumbent bicycle exerciser, a weight bench with 3- to 20-pound weights, bouncing medicine balls, a 5-pound and a 10-pound kettlebell with an instruction poster and an Astroslide exerciser.The exercise room is ...

The free AARP tax-aide electronic filing program will be offered again this year at Fairfield Public Library.The library site will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays.Appointments must be made at the site while the preparer is present.In IRS-trained volunteer counselor will be working at the site.The program is administered through the AARP Foundation in cooperation with the IRS.Membership to AARP is ...

Each school month, the Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the Fairfield Middle School ?Students of the Month? award to acknowledge positive contributions of students at school ranging from assisting teachers and peers in classroom activities to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom.The Students of the Month certificates are awarded after a nomination and voting process is completed by ...

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 and gravy, oven-browned potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches, orange juice.Tuesday ? beef and bean vegetable soup, saltine crackers, spinach-strawberry ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at all schools: assorted cereals, cereal bars and Nutri-Grain Bars, orange juice, milk. Lunch: hamburger on bun, romaine salad, sweet potato puffs, fruit cocktail, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: assorted ...

PACKWOOD ­? Pekin High School and middle school officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the first semester of the 2013-14 academic year.Straight ?A?Students on the straight ?A? honor roll are:Seniors: Eric Adam, Jared Bond, Petie Clubb, Jessica Horras, Cade Millikin, Taiylor Morgan, Hannah Robison, Tiana Slaney, Jenna Swanson and Samantha Wright.Juniors: ...

Fairfield Art of Dance student A?lia Martin, daughter of Allen and Debra Martin, was recently accepted to The Joffrey Ballet Summer School. The Martins drove to Chicago a few weeks ago to attend an audition with hundreds of other students trying for the 150 spots. The program runs for five weeks, and Martin will be in classes eight hours each day. Martin?s other recent credits include passing her Cecchetti Ballet ...

Jubilee Kingdom Gathering?s ?Breaking The Silence? Feb. 15Jubilee Kingdom Gathering will have ?Breaking The Silence? at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.Interested people can attend any or all of the three sessions. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.Jubilee Kingdom Gathering will be helping those who attend to find their God-given destiny and to release their full ...

The combination of high winds and areas kept open by waterfowl or aerators have created large pockets of open water on some lakes and is making favorite ice fishing spots either off limits until spring or are requiring extra caution if venturing out.A recent fishing trip to Lake Anita drove the point home. The open water maintained by waterfowl grew from five acres to almost 15 acres following high winds.?Waterf...

Last year, more than 8,000 Iowa taxpayers helped boost wildlife conservation with donations to the Fish and Wildlife Fund on their tax form. It is the third year in a row donations to the fund have increased, a trend Iowa Department of Natural Resources diversity wildlife biologist Stephanie Shepherd hopes to continue in 2014.?The number of Iowans donating to the fund is growing after a 10-year downward trend,? ...

MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESDES MOINES ? Callie Millard of Agency has been named to the president?s list for the fall 2013 semester at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines.To qualify for the president?s list, students must attain a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher in their most recent semester for a minimum of six credit hours.???