Community

Rubio Music Jam will be Saturday at the Rubio Community Building.Soup and pies will be served at 5 p.m. Music starts at 6 p.m. A free will offering will be collected.

FARM BUREAU WOMENJefferson County Farm Bureau Women will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at SunnyBrook Assisted Living.Wilma Lewis Whitham will be hostess.Roll call response will be about natural resources and manufacturing of Canada.Vern and Doris Ramsey will give a program on beekeeping.

Seneca Area Agency on Aging Family Caregiver Program presents the ?You Put the Care in Family Caregiving? conference from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa. Speakers include: Iowa Family Caregiver Program Director Jeanne Yodi; long-term care omudsmen Tonya Amos; and owner and founder of ?Get Organized? Becky Edker.Speakers, lunch, exhibitors and activities are free, but ...

KRUU 100.1 FM, Fairfield?s solar-powered grassroots, community radio station will have a tree planting project from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 10 on the station grounds thanks to a grant from the Trees Forever foundation.Everyone in the community is invited to join in the planting for half an hour, half a day or whatever time is comfortable.Fifty arborvitae trees will be planted along the railroad tracks, serving as ...

The public is invited to Word of Life Lutheran Church at 11:30 a.m. Sunday for a chili lunch as the local 40 Days for Life campaign draws to a close.Mike Buster of Burlington will speak about his pro-life activities.The 135 white crosses put up in September at Immanuel Lutheran Church will be removed.

Fairfield school district has listed its menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at middle school and high school: assorted cereals and cereal bars, orange juice, milk; breakfast at elementary schools: assorted cereals, cereal bar or Nutri-Grain bar; orange juice, milk. Lunch: hamburger on bun, Romaine and tomato, sweet potato fries, fruit cocktail, milk.Tuesday ? breakfast at middle school and high school: ...

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 ? tuna and noodles, mashed potato, broccoli with cheese sauce, strawberry and banana chocolate chip bar.Tuesday ? baked ham, baked potato with sour cream, steamed cabbage, rosy ...

On Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving, First Baptist Church will host Caring through Clothing from 9 a.m. to noon, Nov. 23, in Fellowship Hall. Community members can enjoy a cup of coffee, hot chocolate, hot apple cider and cookies while ?shopping? for clothing, shoes, winter apparel and blankets ? all free of charge.?Now that the weather is turning colder, we have many people in our community ...

Plans are under way for the long-standing Swedish Smörgåsbord which takes place at the Parish Hall in Swedesburg on the first Thursday in December each year, which is Dec. 6 this year.Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday at the Swedesburg Parish Hall. Only 400 tickets will be available.Smörgåsbord has been an annual event since 1938 except for a couple years during World War II when rationing limited access to ...

Basil Faith Parish churches? weekly schedules: Libertyville, Sunday worship 8:15 a.m. and Sunday school 9:30 a.m.; Birmingham, worship 9:45 a.m., choir practice after worship, Sunday school, 10:45 a.m.; Stockport, Sunday worship 11 a.m.United Methodist confirmation is at 5 p.m. Sunday at Keosauqua United Methodist Church.Ad board will meet a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Stockport. B.A.T.T.L.E. meets at 5:30 p.m. ...

The Rebekah Circle of the Methodist church will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Beverly Boley is hostess.

The Fairfield Area Ministerial Association is sponsoring an Election Day Communion at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at New Life Community Church.This will be a 30-minute service.Election Day Communion is an ecumenical and non-partisan event occurring in more than 500 churches in 49 states on election day.Its purpose is to express Christian faith, commitment to love and service across partisan politics and solidarity as ...