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Two Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center blood drives are planned in Fairfield and Keosauqa.SunnyBrook Home Care Center will host a blood drive from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Feb. 4 in its conference room in the SunnyBrook Living Care Center in Fairfield. Donors who last gave on or before Dec. 10 are eligible to participate again. To donate, call SunnyBrook Home Care Center office manager Michelle Rauscher at 472-4808....

Confinement site manure applicators should plan to attend a two-hour workshop offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to maintain or renew their confinement site manure applicator certification.The Jefferson County workshop will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 13 at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office on the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Fairfield....

KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGECEDAR RAPIDS ? Kirkwood Community College has released its dean?s list for the fall 2013 semester.Kirkwood students from the area earning the distinction are:From Eldon ? Nicole Bedford, who is working toward an associate?s degree in the horse science technology program;From Fairfield ? Jacob Adam, Maryanne Eagleson, Max Johnson and Holden Ketterhagen, who each is working toward an ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham Library Board will meet at 9 a.m. Feb. 4 at the library.???The Rebekah Circle of the Birmingham United Methodist Church will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at the church.Barb Jamison is the hostess.???The fundraising fish and chicken supper planned by the Birmingham Homecoming Committee will start at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Birmingham Lions Building.The fish and chicken supper also will ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham Lions Club will meet for its carry-in supper at 7 p.m. Monday at the Birmingham Lions Building.A guest speaker is planned.Carroll Unkrich and Harry Anderson are the January committee.???The four Lions clubs in Van Buren County ? Birmingham, Keosauqua, Stockport and Milton ? and the Keosauqua Leo Club presented Zina Hardin $8,000.The funds, proceeds from the Festival of Trees held in ...

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

KEOSAUQUA ? Tickets for the Van Buren Players production of Studs Terkel?s musical ?Working? go on sale Feb. 1.Reserved seat tickets can be purchased at Community First Bank in Keosauqua or by calling Kathy Bartholomew at the bank, 319-293-3794.The cast has been chosen and rehearsals are underway.Cast members include Tom Allen, Dave Atwood, Sydney Atwood, Wes Atwood, Tiffany Beggs, Gloria Breckenridge, Jessie ...

Women of ELCA officers installedFirst Lutheran Church in Fairfield installed its 2014 Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church officers during worship Sunday.The Rev. Stacy Grau, pastor of the church, presided over the installation service.Those serving this year are: co-presidents Marilyn Kane, Norma Bogner and Carol Carlson; vice president and treasurer Margaret Berg; secretary Patty Richardson; justice ...

Three Batavia Volunteer Fire Department members, from left, Joel Shipley, John McKeever and Ethan Eakins, model the turnout gear purchased with funds received from a grant from the Greater Jefferson County Foundation during its 2013 grant period. The next grant period for the foundation will begin May 1, with a deadline of June 1. Online grant applications are available on the foundation?s website: ~ Further ...

John Koontz of Fairfield will celebrate his 95th birthday Jan. 30.His family is planning a card shower. Cards can be sent to 216A Southgate Circle Apt. A, Fairfield 52556. No gifts are requested.The retired farmer was born in Fairfield. He and his wife Ruth have two children, Jeff Koontz and Patti Small, both of Fairfield.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? When President Barack Obama meets Pope Francis in the Vatican in March, both men will speak a common economic language rooted in similar views about poverty and income inequality, giving prominence to an issue that the U.S. president wants to be a central theme of his second term.In the complicated relationship between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church, the White House sees the ...

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: pig-in-a-blanket, baked beans, peas, fresh apple, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: assorted cereals, cheese ...