Community

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 ? bistro chicken breast, scalloped potatoes, green beans, peach strawberry banana medley, ice cream cup.Tuesday ? roast beef, baked potato half with sour cream, creamed ...

Fairfield Elks Lodge 1192 members Debbi Davis, Doug Bagby and Ryan Kurka continued the Elks Flag Day Ceremony tradition with Jefferson County Veterans Affairs Director Ray Chambers and local Boy Scouts June 14 at the Veterans? Memorial on the courthouse lawn. Participating Boy Scouts were: Christopher Kyle, James Kyle, Brandon Francisco, Austin Francisco, Ronan Malloy, Finnegan Malloy, Austin Shelby, Caleb ...

LOCKRIDGE ? First Augustana Lutheran Church will have a 10 a.m. service Sunday at the historic New Sweden Chapel.Sunday is ?Be a Blessing Sunday.?Following the service, a potluck lunch at the parsonage and a community service project are planned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of becoming the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.For the service project, volunteers will be cleaning the flowerbeds at the ...

First Lutheran honoring ELCA anniversaryFirst Lutheran Church will be honoring the 25th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with a special service and service project Sunday.A worship service will be held at 9 a.m. Sunday at Jefferson County Park.Following worship, a service project and a potluck meal are planned at the park. Guest speaker at FoursquareJeanne Kuckelman, founder and ...

PACKWOOD ? Representatives of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety will teach the fundamentals of harvest safety to Pekin students Friday.Kindergarten through 12th-grade students at Pekin Community School District will have the opportunity to learn about safe handling of farm equipment throughout the day.An evening session at the school is free and open to the public, and offers an opportunity ...

The Fairfield Park and Recreation Department is offering youth tennis lessons for 5-year-old and older youth beginning Tuesday at the Fairfield Middle School tennis courts.The six lessons will be from 4:30-5:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning Tuesday next week through Sept. 26.Jennifer Bradfield will give group instruction on the fundamentals of tennis, the serve, forehand and backhand, score keeping ...

FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUB GARDEN DEPARTMENTThe Fairfield Women?s Club Garden Department will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the McElhinny House.­Deb Johnson will serve as hostess. Following coffee time, entomologist Moni Hayne will present the program. President Donna Clark will conduct a business meeting.The Fairfield Women?s Club members will resume their general meetings Sept. 18, with a noon luncheon, followed ...

John Roush walks through one of the Cedar Creek Produce greenhouse structures where tomatoes are growing. Cindy and John Roush (CR Eggs) and Vince Jaeger?s Organics have Joined to become Cedar Creek Produce. Cedar Creek Produce is one of the stops on the ?Savor the Flavor? farm crawl from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Four farms and two wineries will be open for tours. Local food will be available at every stop. Kim ...

BONNIFIELD QUESTERSThe Bonnifield Questers will meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the home of Linda Messerli.The topic will be family memories.??? JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMENThirteen members were present for the meeting of the Farm Bureau Women Tuesday.Roll call was centered on facts about India?s climate and population.Julie Fiske, executive director of the Growing Hope Foundation, gave the program. The ...

Hometown Harvest of Southeast Iowa announces the ?Savor the Flavor? farm craw from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.A free farm crawl is a slow, intimate visit to several farms in the local area for the purpose of understanding food production and the farmers who work the land. The crawl visits four farms, two greenhouses and two wineries in three counties.Food ready-to-eat will be available along the crawl route: ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham library board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the library.???Birmingham Lions Club members will have a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Lions building. The committee is Kendall Smith and Peter Sweedy.???The Over 50 and Fabulous Red Hat Ladies will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Birmingham Lions Building. The Lions will serve lunch. The hostesses are Linda Stine and ...

Square dance fever has hit Fairfield.Since January dozens of people have enrolled in square dance classes taught by Robin Ragen, the club caller for the Dudes ?n? Dolls in Ottumwa.?Square dancing is an experience, not an event ? a lifelong hobby, something you can do at any age,? said Ragen.The activity is a perfect complement to Fairfield?s Blue Zones Project, according to Sarvani Viger-Edson and Mary Gagnon. ...