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AMES ? Does your farm seek a highly motivated farm employee? Are you looking for a way to support the next generation of Iowa farmers by sharing your farming knowledge with an aspiring farmer? If so, consider becoming a trainer in Practical Farmers of Iowa?s Labor4Learning program.The program, now entering its second year, is an effort to help beginning farmers receive paid, on-the-job training while helping ...

BRIGHTON ? Lake Darling State Park will be closed Dec. 7-8 for deer hunting.For information, contact the park office at 319-694-2323.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking comments on its draft, legislatively mandated, ?2012 Iowa Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report.?Interested parties may review the draft report available on the DNR website at ~The DNR seeks information or suggestions that would improve the accuracy of the report.Send corrections or comments to Marnie Stein at Marnie.Stein@dnr.iowa.gov by 4:30 p.m., Dec. 10.When ...

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 ? pork cutlet, scalloped potatoes, Brussels sprouts, blushing pears.Tuesday ? chili with beans, sweet and sour coleslaw, cereal muffin, strawberry and banana.Wednesday ? ...

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: Sloppy Joe on bun, sweet potato fries, green beans, pear halves, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: assorted ...

Marji Wintroub, left, and Deb DeArmond arrange holiday greenery in the three concrete pots on the southeast corner of the Fairfield square earlier this week. Every year, Oakwood Nursery donates assorted greenery for the pots on the corners around the square, and Beautification Commission volunteers do the arranging.

It?s time to celebrate the holiday season with the Fairfield Area Community Theatre upcoming production of Barbara Robinson?s ?The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,? according to F.A.C.T. President Tim Lantz.The show will be performed at local church fellowship halls:? 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at First Lutheran Church;? 7 p.m. Dec. 6 at First Presbyterian Church; and? 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at St. Mary Catholic Church.The ...

Church serving community Thanksgiving WednesdayLOCKRIDGE ? First Augustana Lutheran Church in Lockridge will be serving a Thanksgiving supper from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lockridge Community Center.The meal is free. Rabbi offers Hebrew lesson, Bible study WednesdayRabbi Chaim Gruber of Fairfield will offer a Hebrew lesson and Bible study 6-7 p.m. Wednesday at Fellowship of the Holy Spirit.Gruber ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Mount Pleasant?s annual tour of homes hosted by Chapter DD T.T.T. is set for 1-5 p.m. Sunday.Four area homes decorated for the holidays will be open to the public.New this year is a special crafters? holiday sale at one of the venues.Proceeds will allow young girls to participate in a summer camping experience.Tour tickets are $10. Tickets can be purchased now from any T.T.T. member, Brown?s ...

Archery is experiencing a wave of popularity thanks in part to the Hunger Games series and to Iowa?s expanding archery in the schools program, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.In conjunction with the release of ?Hunger Games: Catching Fire? on Friday, the Iowa DNR will be giving away a brand new Matthews Genesis Bow valued at $200.To enter the drawing, watch the movie, save the ticket and ...

Another holiday season has arrived, and it won?t be long before the red kettles of The Salvation Army appear in front of the Fairfield Hy-Vee and Walmart stores.Since Thanksgiving comes as late as it can this year, organizers are hoping to have the kettles available for volunteers to ring bells beginning Saturday and continue from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, excluding Thanksgiving Day, through ...

Vickie Malloy, left, presents the baby quilt her husband, Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy, crafted during a recent Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk, to NEST Coordinator Lynne Johnson at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office. Judie Herzog of the Northside Strippers Quilt Club explained three competitors selected their own material and sewed their own quilt. Art walkers voted on their favorite by dropping donations in ...