Community

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 ? hamburger on wheat bun with lettuce, tomato and onion, potato wedge, spinach strawberry salad, ambrosia salad, banana bar.Tuesday ? glazed ham ball, baked potato with sour ...

The holiday season is well underway and the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign is in full swing. As of Tuesday, the kettles had brought in $8,874.34; with donations that arrived just before the ringing began, the current total is $10,963.56. This is just shy of the half-way point of the $22,000 goal, but there are now less than two weeks left in the campaign.The Rev. Joe Phipps, volunteer coordinator for The ...

The Lord?s Cupboard of Jefferson County is reminding volunteers their help is needed Monday and Tuesday at the Nazarene Family Center to prepare and pack 500 Christmas food boxes for distribution to families in need.According to the Fairfield Volunteer Center, volunteers are needed at 9:30 a.m. Monday to help clean, stack and number banana boxes.?If we have enough volunteers, the cleaning, numbering and ...

Christmas program, dinner Sunday at First PresbyterianFirst Presbyterian Church preschool through high school youth will present a Christmas program Sunday.The program will be part of the 10:30 a.m. worship service.A sloppy joe fundraising dinner will be held after the service.Everyone is welcome to attend. Maxine Bates Circle to meetThe Maxine Bates Circle of First Baptist Church will meet at 1 p.m. ...

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: chicken nuggets, corn, carrots, peaches, milk; and in addition for high school students: bread-and-butter sandwich, fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: assorted ...

Iowa?s first shotgun deer season closed Wednesday and the preliminary numbers indicate that license sales and harvest are both down from previous years.Sales of licenses declined 7 percent from 2012 and the reported harvest is 18 percent lower. The decrease reflects decreased deer numbers across the state as well as fewer licenses being issued, continuing the downward trend in harvest since its peak in 2006. The ...

Milestones Area Agency on Aging has updated its website at www.milestonesaaa.org as a result of the state consolidation of AAA?s and the creation of Area 5, which is the combined service areas of both Seneca and Generations area agencies on aging, along with communities in the Burlington area.This site serves individuals and family caregivers living in the service area of Appanoose, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, ...

Trent Taglauer of Fairfield High School was among the top students in the country selected to attend the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute Oct. 17-19 in Des Moines during the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium, which drew 1,500 people from more than 65 countries to discuss the world?s hunger and food security issues. The World Food Prize was founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug in ...

Fairfield Middle School officials recently announced the names of its Students of the Month for November.Each school month, the Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the FMS Students of the Month award, which acknowledges positive contributions of students, such as assisting teachers and peers to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom.Students of the Month certificates are awarded after ...

The annual induction ceremony for the Fairfield High School chapter of the National Honor Society was held at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 in the FHS Auditorium.Seventeen new members were inducted during the candlelight ceremony.Newly inducted seniors are: Kathryn Box, Riley Hammel, Vincent Horras, Taalia Larson, Lalita Martin, Keri Schwarz, Alexander Shier and Jessie Warner. Newly inducted juniors are: Tracy Andermann, ...

BIRMINGHAM ? The Birmingham Library recently received several memorials and gifts.In memory of Nancy Craff, given by friends: ?Mrs. Lincoln?s Dressmaker? by Chigoerini; ?The Guardian? by Lewis; ?The Hearts Frontier? by Copeland; ?A Plain and Simple Heart? by Copeland; and ?A Step of Faith? by Evans.In memory of Nancy Craff, given by the library board: ?Irresistible Blueberry Bake Shop? by Simses.In memory of ...

The Fairfield Park and Recreation Department is planning Santa?s Workshop 2013 for first- through fourth-graders Dec. 18 at Roosevelt Community Recreation Center.The workshop will be from 4:15-5 p.m.Each participant will make a gift for his or her dad or mom. Materials and instructions will be supplied.The fee is $10.Registration is due by Saturday at the recreation center or the website www.fairfieldparksandr...