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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, ...

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 ? spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, layered lettuce salad, diced pears, orange juice.Tuesday ? pork cutlets, sweet potatoes, peas, Ambrosia Salad, vegetable juice.Wedne...

Fairfield elementary schools will be observing Red Ribbon Week beginning Monday.Each day, the students will be dressing up following a theme to bring attention to the benefits of staying away from drugs and alcohol.Monday: The theme at Libertyville, Pence and Washington schools is ?Role Model/Celebrity Day.? Students will dress up like their favorite drug-free celebrity/role model.Tuesday: The theme at ...

SOLITAIRESMembers of Solitaires are planning to have dinner Sunday at Hotel Ottumwa.The group will carpool from the First National Bank in Fairfield parking lot at noon.???