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Fairfield High School is looking for volunteers to help it host the Iowa All-State Music tryouts Oct. 26.Volunteers are needed as:? Warm-up room monitors to sit outside the room and monitor warm-up times.? Audition room monitors to sit outside the room and monitor audition times.? Ballot calculators to sit in the room and add numbers on the ballot for the judge.? Office help to tally up ballots, post results ...

Five Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center blood drives are scheduled in the area.A blood drive is set from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Jefferson County Health Center conference room. Donors who last gave on or before Aug. 30 are eligible to give again. To donate, call 800-452-1097 or visit www.bloodcenterimpact.org.A blood drive is set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Van Buren High School gym ...

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 ? meatloaf, baked potato with sour cream, breaded tomatoes, peaches, orange juice.Tuesday ? creamed turkey, mashed potatoes, Green Beans Amandine, tossed lettuce salad with ...

Fairfield Community School District?s menu for the coming week:Monday ? breakfast: cereal, cereal bars, Nutri-Grain Bars, orange juice, milk. Lunch: pig-in-a-blanket, baked beans, peas, fresh apple, milk.Tuesday ? breakfast at FMS and FHS: cereal, scrambled egg on bagel, orange juice, milk; breakfast at elementary schools: cereal, wheat toast with butter and jelly or cereal/Nutri-Grain Bar, orange juice, milk. ...

The Jefferson County 4-H Youth Committee is searching for individuals who would like to serve on the committee.Two seats are opening at the end of December, and at least three seats are opening at the end of December 2014.The Jefferson County Extension Council appoints the 4-H Youth Committee members. The youth committee is an active volunteer group that works in cooperation with local Extension staff, including...

Sherri Sue Fort and David DeLovely, both of Cloquet, Minn., announce their engagement.Parents of the couple are Charles and Kathy Williams of Fairfield and Barb DeLovely of Cloquet and the late William DeLovely.The bride-to-be attended Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa and is employed as a phlebotomist, CNA, CMA, physical therapist.The groom-to-be is a graduate of Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, ...

The Rough Riders 4-H Club will hold a can drive this weekend at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office.The 4-H?ers will be collecting cans from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.The 4-H?ers plan to use the profits from the can drive to fund the club?s community service projects.

FHS CLASS OF 1953Members of the Fairfield High School Class of 1953 held a 60th-year class reunion Sept. 14.The classmates and their guests met in the Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store Club Room for rolls, coffee and juice and visiting.A dinner was held at the Fairfield Eagles Club. The evening included visiting and picture taking.Classmates attended from Iowa, Missouri, Arizona, Michigan, Texas, Nebraska ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Over 50 and Fabulous Red Hat Ladies met for lunch Oct. 8 at Pizza Ranch in Fairfield.Twenty members were present. ?Happy Birthday? was sung for those with birthdays in October. Donna Pratt won the door prize, a yellow mum. No program was presented.Hostesses were Donna Kennedy and Shirley Burk.???Several Birmingham residents will be taking part in the fall program at 6 p.m. Sunday at the ...

The Fairfield Park and Recreation Department will be offering Train for Life for anyone 18 years old or older beginning Oct. 24 at Roosevelt Community Recreation Center.Participants will learn to work out at a level that helps burn fat and keeps the fun in exercise.?Sometimes we just go through the motions, but seeing a difference is where it is all at,? said personal trainer Kristy Clark. ?This program will ...

EAST PLEASANT PLAIN ? The final congregate meal of 2013 will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at St. Joseph Church in East Pleasant Plain.The menu will include chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, bread, pie, cream puffs, beverages and a salad bar.Bingo will be played after the meal.All ages are welcome. An elevator is available at the church.Reservations are not required, ...

OTTUMWA ? The public often thinks of farmers as white males of European ancestry living in isolated rural areas. And the public often thinks of immigrants as those who have slipped into the United States to take advantage of assistance programs. ?Vang,? a play about recent immigrant farmers, blows both of those stereotypes and opens discussion about how farming is done in the United States and how immigrants have ...