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Orders are due Nov. 8 for the S.H.A.R.E. Iowa Inc. food packages available this month.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. Nov. 23 at the Fairfield Eagles Club.Several different packages are available; ...

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 school and high school: ...

Iowa pheasant hunters can expect to find the best bird numbers in northwest, north central and central Iowa and while the number of birds in the field is well below peak years, good hunting opportunities do exist.?Even with low counts some hunters will have excellent hunts and plenty of opportunities and others will be able to flush a bird or two and put one in the bag,? said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife ...

Claude Nicholson picks apricots from a tree on his and his wife Sharon?s 40-acre organic farm in rural Fairfield. The 75-year-old man picks apricots and cherries standing on a platform attached to the bucket of his tractor. He reaches a platform by climbing up a ladder place along the side. Since his retirement, Nicholson has been busy doing what he loves: farming and gardening. He makes Aronia granola bars in ...

DES MOINES ? Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey is encouraging Iowans to consider visiting a local apple orchard this fall.Apples are maturing, so now is a great time to visit an apple farm or pick some up at the local farmers market.?While the cool, wet spring challenged many Iowa farmers, it has been near perfect weather for Iowa?s apple trees and the result is many orchards are reporting a bumper ...

An estimated 50,000 archery deer hunters will climb into tree stands in Iowa, and an untold number will fall.One in every three hunters who hunt from a tree stand will fall at some point in their hunting career, and of those, 75 to 80 percent occurs while ascending or descending the tree.Nationally, 300 to 500 hunters are killed annually in tree stand accidents and another 6,000 will have tree stand related ...

Avoid fall plowing to leave food, cover for wildlife Fall tillage practices, even reduced tillage techniques such as disking and chisel plowing, can eliminate waste grains and crop residue that provides important food and cover for species such as pheasants, quail, partridge, turkey, and deer.Studies of harvested untilled crop fields show wildlife consume 55-85 percent of the waste corn and soybeans between ...

Fairfield Middle School officials have announced the winners of its Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports program drawing for October.The fifth-grade winners were: Payton Cline, Anna Westphal, Abby Schaefer, Claire Epperson, Kordy Taylor, Blair Grunwald, Kevin Kretz, Samara McLain, Devon Duke, Trisha Westphal, Nellie Higdon, Alex Forrest, Brad Smithburg, Kyle Godwin and Jeremy Crile.Six-grade winners ...

Fairfield Middle School will host a Scholastic Book Fair Monday through Nov. 12 in room 102.Throughout the week, all FMS students will have the opportunity to visit the book fair during reading or GOAL class.The book fair also will be open each day before and after school from 8:10 a.m. to 4 p.m.The book fair will be open during parent/teacher conferences from 5-8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Nov. 7.Parents and ...

Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center has scheduled two blood drives Nov. 12.The first will be from 2-7 p.m. in the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.The second will be from 3:30-7:30 p.m. at Hope Lutheran Church in Germanville near Brighton.Donors who last gave blood on or before Sept. 17 are eligible to give again Nov. 12; a donor can give blood every eight weeks.To donate, call 800-452-1097 ...

The Fairfield Indoor Market will open Saturday in the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.The indoor winter market and craft show will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday through the end of April.The market will offer lots of produce, prepared food, jellies and jams, baked goods, meat, eggs, jewelry, artwork, knitted items, wooden crafts and much more.The Fairfield Farmers? Market held Wednesday and ...

Revival meetings planned Burkhalter Ministries will lead revival meetings Sunday through Wednesday for First Church of the Nazarene.The revival meetings will be at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday at the church; 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the church; and 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, preceded by the church?s weekly meal, featuring soups, at 6 p.m., at the Nazarene Family Center,Burkhalter Ministries includes Evangelist ...