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The Fairfield Volunteer Center and the Southern Prairie Chapter of the American Red Cross are joining forces to introduce the Red Cross and its volunteer opportunities to Fairfield from 1:15-2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Fairfield Public Library.Following a half hour presentation, there will time for question and answers and for assisting those registering as volunteers on the Red Cross website.The introduction is ...

OTTUMWA ? A one-day leadership conference will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Rural Health Education Center on the Indian Hills Community College Ottumwa campus.?Leadership Now? is open to anyone who has an interest in leadership, particularly those who are interested in leadership as it applies to the local 10-county region.James Autry, author and former Meredith Corporation executive, will be the keynote ...

The Fairfield Women?s Club will host its annual soup and pie luncheon for the community from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 5 at the McElhinny House.Vegetable beef and cheesy potato soups will be served, along with various pies.Delivery- and carry-out orders are available. Call 472-5762 or 919-5761 for deliveries.Proceeds will be used to maintain the historic McElhinny House.The McElhinny House was built for pioneer ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY IOWA SCHOOL PERSONNELJefferson County Unit of Iowa School Personnel met for a luncheon meeting Wednesday at SunnyBrook Assisted Living.Special guests were Tom and Opal Handlen, District 6 coordinators, and Ken Dailey, who updated members on the Blue Zones Project.Dailey explained the goal of the project is to improve the health and longevity in thecommunity using nine principles based on the ...

The Fairfield Park and Recreation Department will begin offering the Arthritis Foundation Walk with Ease program Nov. 4 at the Roosevelt Community Recreation Center.Classes meet for one hour three times a week for six weeks.Walk with Ease is an exercise program that can reduce pain and improve overall health. According to the Arthritis Foundation, if a person can be on his or her feet for 10 minutes without ...

MONDAYF.A.C.T. Auditions, for ?The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,? Fairfield High School Auditorium, 7 p.m.Jefferson County Master Gardeners, Jefferson County ISU Extension Office, 5 p.m.Birmingham Lions Club, carry-in supper, Birmingham Lions Building, 7 p.m.Youth Fitness Class, for third- through eighth-graders, Roosevelt Community Recreation Center, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $3 per class; free with membership. No ...

The Fairfield Park and Recreation Center is taking registration for Ide Gymnastics gymnastic and trampoline programs.Both programs begin Nov. 4 and continue through Dec. 6, with each session meeting four times, at Roosevelt Community Recreation Center.The trampoline program is divided into 10 sessions and the gymnastics program is divided into 11 sessions, each with different meeting times and dates, depending ...

Polishville Community Center has announced its November events.A dance, with Lyle Beaver of Iowa City providing the music, is set for Sunday. Food will be for sale at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6-9 p.m.A second dance, with Goodman/Anders of North English and Newhall providing the music, is set for Nov. 17. Food will be for sale at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6-9 p.m.Bingo is set for Nov. 4 and ...

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: whole-grain pizza, carrots, corn, fresh orange, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle school and high school: assorted cereals, egg on ...

Jospeh Parcell and Diana Parcell of Richland announce the engagement of their daughter Autumn Jo Parcell to Mark Robert Brown, the son of Douglas and Brenda Brown of Fairfield. The future bride is a graduate from William Penn University and now teaches Special Education at Pekin Elementary. The groom is a graduate of Upper Iowa University and is the current owner of Brown's Tree Service in Fairfield. The ...

OTTUMWA ? The Indian Hills Community College choral ensembles, under the direction of Laura Wiebe, will present a fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at St. John Auditorium.Featuring the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and Tono Bella, the concert will include a variety of American, English and French choral works.The Concert Choir will perform a setting of the Navajo prayer ?Now I Walk in Beauty,? the American folk ...

Doris Ramsey peeks around the corner as Fairfield Middle School sixth grader Raven Steele points out the queen bee. The FMS sixth-graders went on a field trip Oct. 25 to Jefferson County Park. About 130 students rotated through seven stations to learn about the great outdoors. Presenters included Russ Dimmitt on trapping, Jason Steele on soils, Verne and Doris Ramsey on beekeeping, Elizabeth Keetz on archaeology, ...