Community

Guild Circle meeting MondayFirst United Methodist Church Guild Circle will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Basal Faith Parish to meetAll administrative board members and SPRC members from the Birmingham, Stockport and Libertyville United Methodist churches will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Stockport church.The Birmingham United Methodist Church, Stockport United Methodist Church and Faith United Methodist ...

BIRMINGHAMA pizza party is planned at 5 p.m. May 23 at the Birmingham Library for fourth- through sixth-grade children to sign up for a book club. The club will meet at 10 a.m. on Saturdays in July.???Children 3-years-old and older can sign up for the summer reading program at the Birmingham Library. The program will be held from 10-11 a.m. on Tuesdays in July. Registration is underway now so the library staff ...

A free ?lunch and learn? program, ?Good Bugs-Bad Bugs of the Garden,? is planned from noon to 1 p.m. May 23 at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office.According to ISU Extention horticulture program assistant Kim Keller, Moni Hayne will present the program.Hayne will explain which bugs are beneficial in gardens, such as the good bugs that eat or destroy the bad bugs, and she will explain which bugs should be ...

Blanche Elizabeth Nelson of Mount Pleasant and formerly of Fairfield will be celebrating her 102nd birthday from 2-3 p.m. May 22 at Park Place in Mount Pleasant.Mrs. Nelson was born May 22, 1911, in Lockridge, and has lived in Fairfield, Burlington and Mount Pleasant.

Officials at Fairfield High School this week released the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2012-13 academic year. SeniorsSeniors on the ?A? honor roll, and a * denoting the student earned straight ?A?s? are: Jacob Adam, Randy Andermann, Jonathan Anderson, Nathan Barker. Jacquelyn Bell, *Madison Brokken, Mason Carnahan, Jennifer Clements, *Kaitlyn Daugherty,...

LOCKRIDGE ? The Lockridge Little League will host it?s annual dinner and auction benefit at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lockridge Community Center.The dinner and auction is the main fundraising event for Little League so it can purchase new equipment for the ballplayers and maintain its facilities in Lockridge.A pulled-pork barbecued dinner, with sides and desserts, will be offered for a free-will donation, and ...

STOCKPORTAn Old-Tyme music jam is planned from 1:30-4 p.m. Sunday at the Heritage Estates Community Room.Everyone is invited to bring their instruments and play acoustical music or come and enjoy the fellowship and music. A free-will offering will be collected.For information, call Wayne Keller at 319-796-2130.???New Christian fiction books donated to the Stockport Library by Judy Dorothy are: ?Sweet ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY RETIRED SCHOOL PERSONNELThe Jefferson County Retired School Personnel will meet for a noon luncheon May 22 at the McElhinny House.Hostesses will be Linda Zelinski, Marcia Koch and Rosie Thompson. Zelinski is the chairwoman.For the program, Larry Nash will speak about the Maasdam Barns.­­­???

BOB JONES UNIVERSITYGREENVILLE, S.C. ? Fairfield resident Rebecca Bartle was among the more than 800 students who graduated from Bob Jones University earlier this month.Bartle graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in dramatic production.??? IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYAMES ? Derek Robison of Richland has received the Dean?s Recognition Award from the Iowa State University College of Human Sciences.Robison ...

The Fairfield Women?s Club will hold a Trash and Treasure Sale, a cookie walk and a plant sale from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the McElhinny House.The Trash and Treasure Sale and the cookie walk will be inside the McElhinny House, and the plant sale will be out in its carriage house.Proceeds will help with the maintenance of the historic McElhinny House.The McElhinny House was built for pioneer merchant ...

Greg Thatcher, Maharishi School art department chairman, is showing his work along with three other Midwestern artists for the months of May and June at the airport gallery in Moline, Ill.Thatcher was invited to submit works to the Quad Cities Arts Association last year and was subsequently chosen to exhibit his work.The gallery is in the public waiting area and showcases both local and regional talent from the ...

ELDON ? Grant Wood?s ?American Gothic? is one of the most recognized paintings in America, not only because of the original painting, but also because it has been portrayed in various ways through print advertising, television and movies.From 6-7 p.m. May 24, the American Gothic House Center in Eldon will unveil its latest exhibit: ?Parodies of a Portrait: An American Icon?s Place in Pop Culture,? a visual ...