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MOUNT PLEASANT ? A variety of student service-learning projects will be on display during the Service Fair beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Social Hall of the Howe Student Activity Center at Iowa Wesleyan College.More than 120 Iowa Wesleyan students will display exhibits demonstrating how they have been serving throughout the semester. Showcased projects will include Harlan Elementary Carnival, Imagine no ...

BIRMINGHAMMargaret Pool, a former Birmingham resident now living at SunnyBrook Living Care Center in Fairfield, will celebrate her 101st birthday Thursday. She would appreciate cards and visits at any time. Her address is 400 Highland St., Fairfield 52556.???The Methodist Ladies will have a bake sale and rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Methodist church in Birmingham.???The Birmingham ...

OTTUMWA ? The Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra is sponsoring a Nativity Walk from 1-5 p.m. Saturday at Pennsylvania Place in Ottumwa.Visitors may view dozens of nativity scenes from around the world gathered from private collections.The walk will feature a range of crèches from primitive to ethnic and beautiful artistic sets.The tour includes Christmas music and light refreshments.Admission is a $5 donation ...

TUESDAYBurn Day, yard waste, leaves, brush can be burned, Fairfield city limits, daylight hours. Burning ends Thursday.Annie?s Project, classes for women involved in farm operations, Jefferson County ISU Extension Office, 6-9 p.m. Preregistration required: 472-4166.N.E.S.T. Classes, Jefferson County ISU Extension Office, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Call 472-4166.Golden Speakers Toastmasters Club, First United Methodist ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ?The Iowa Wesleyan College Choir and Mount Pleasant Chorale will present ?Amazing Peace: A celebration of Christ?s birth in song and word,? a service of Lessons and Carols, at 7 p.m. Sunday at the First United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant.The groups are under the direction of Bradley Miller, assistant professor of music at Iowa Wesleyan College.Highlights of the concert include performances ...

OTTUMWA ??The Madwoman of Chaillot,? the 1947 comic French fable by Jean Giraudoux, will be performed Thursday through Dec. 1 at Indian Hills Community College. The play will begin at 7:30 p.m. each day in St. John Auditorium on the college?s Ottumwa campus. Admission is free, but patrons can reserve their tickets by calling 641- 683-5144.Under the direction of theatre professor Ronelle Willadsen, the play is a ...

From left, Jean Keller and Emily Ledger discuss the Jefferson County Health Center Auxiliary cookbooks with Walta Bloomquist at the auxiliary?s annual Christmas tea Nov. 16. The women are all members of the organization and are selling the cookbooks full of local recipes and historical information about the 100 years of the health center.

ELDON ? The annual Gingerbread House display at the American Gothic House Center in Eldon will be held Dec. 1-14.Gingerbread house builders ? amateur and professional builders alike ? are asked to bring their creations to the center by Nov. 30 for the annual Christmas season exhibit.The houses will be on display from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays through Mondays.While on ...

HCI Care Services, formerly known as Hospice of Central Iowa, will hold Hospice 101 from 1-3 p.m. Monday in the Jefferson County Health Center?s conference room.Event is free and open to the public. No reservation is necessary. Light refreshments will be served.Attendees will learn about hospice care and the benefits individuals and their families receive through the personalized care, including: advance care ...

AIB COLLEGE OF BUSINESSStephanie Adam of Fairfield has received an Accounting Academic Achievement Award at AIB College of Business.To be considered for the recognition, Adam and other honorees were required to maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher in all their classes ? not just accounting ? over the course of the previous year. Eligible students were reviewed by the accounting faculty.Th...

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 ? pork cutlet, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts with cheese, blushing pears.Tuesday ? chili with beans, creamy coleslaw, cereal muffin, sliced strawberries.Wednesday ? beef ...

An exhibition of the current works of James Shrobree and Gyan Shrosbree, including sculpture and paintings, will be at Maharishi University of Management?s Unity Gallery beginning Nov. 30.The show will run Nov. 30 to Feb. 4.A reception is planned 7:30-9 p.m. Friday.Unity Gallery is in the M.U.M. library building. The gallery opening hours are: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saurdays; and 7:15-9 ...