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Fairfield Women?s Club will hold its annual Easter Bazaar from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the McElhinny House.The bazaar will feature a baked-goods table, frozen ham balls, frozen chicken casseroles and children?s Easter gift baskets.Coffee, tea, and rolls will be served.To pre-order frozen items, call 472-4248.

MONDAYCardinal School Parent-Teacher Conferences, 1:30-4 p.m. and 5-8 p.m.Birmingham Lions Club, meeting canceled.All the Above Support Group, Living Stones Fellowship, 7 p.m. Call 233-0818.Co-Dependency Anonymous, First Presbyterian Church, 7 p.m. Call 469-3005.Keosauqua Alcoholics Anonymous, 107 Market St., 8 p.m. TUESDAYFairfield Community School District Spring Break, no school. Classes resume April ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? National Poetry Month will be celebrated at Iowa Wesleyan College with three events.WordUp! Wesleyan, IWC?s annual celebration of language and poetry, will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. April 2 in the Howe Student Activity Center at Iowa Wesleyan College.Students in IWC English classes will present poetry-based service-learning projects completed with community partners such as Park Place Elder ...

Maharishi School Destination Imagination teams performed at the sub-state tournament March 9 and won eight first-place, two second- place and one third-place awards.Teams were scored for creativity and innovation, which means every element had to be their own solution and had to be complex.Next, the Destination Imagination teams will go to the state level where they are expected to evaluate their previous ...

Several area churches have announced plans for Holy Week and Easter Sunday.Prairie View United Methodist Church, at the intersection of Packwood Road and Highway 78 will have Palm Sunday worship, followed by fellowship, at 9 a.m. Sunday. A Good Friday service is set for 7 p.m. March 29, and Easter Sunday worship, followed by fellowship, will be at 9 a.m. March 31.Packwood Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) ...

ELDON ? The Gothic Area Tourism of Eldon and the American Gothic House Center invites the public to attend the first-ever Easter Egg Roll at ?our White House? 1-3 p.m. March 30.Just like the annual event at the ?official? White House, children will roll eggs across the lawn for candy and prizes.Volunteers will be on hand at the free event to help make bunny ears and take pictures in front of ?our White House,? ...

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 ? Salisbury steak with gravy, oven brown potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches, and orange juice.Tuesday ? Hearty beef and bean vegetable soup, crackers, orange surprise ...

HEDRICK ? Back by popular demand is the third annual Bras for a Cause event.The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a soup supper and continue with an auction at 6 p.m. March 30 at the Carl Craft Civic Center in Hedrick.The event features modeling by Hedrick volunteer firemen and prizes for best-decorated bras including: sports theme, business theme, breast cancer awareness and best over-all.The soup supper is ...

OTTUMWA ? Dancers in Company, the University of Iowa Dance Department?s touring repertory company, will kick off its 2013 touring season at Indian Hills Community College with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in St. John Auditorium.Admission is free with funding being provided by the University of Iowa Arts Share program.The performance will feature the restaging of ?Shortcut to My Friend? by international ...

The United Methodist Cooperative Ministries of Van Buren County is presenting the 42nd annual living dramatization of Leonardo DaVinci?s ?The Last Supper.?The hour-long drama, including music and worship, by Ernest K. Emurian will be presented beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Lutheran Church in Fairfield; 7:30 p.m. Monday at Farmington Methodist Church in Farmington; and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at West Point ...

Fairfield Rotary Club treasurer Judith Cox, left, presents a $1,500 check to Sally Farrier from the Ottumwa Crisis Center and Women?s Shelter Friday. For several years, the Rotary Club of Fairfield has conducted a Christmas fundraiser for both the crisis center and women?s shelter and The Lord?s Cupboard. Cox spearheaded the fundraiser with the help of many Rotarians. In 2012, the Rotary Club received a $2,000 ...

AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITYAbbe Ball of Houston, Texas, has received her Master of Arts in psychology, magna cum laude, from the American Military University after obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Penn State University.Ball is a 2001 graduate of Harmony High School. She enlisted in the U.S. Navy following 9/11, and after four years and three tours to the Persian Gulf, transferred to the U.S. ...