Community

OLLIE ? Prairie View United Methodist Church holds Sunday worship at 9 a.m., followed by fellowship at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 10:30 a.m.Bible study is 9 a.m. Tuesday.United Methodist Women will meet at 5:30 p.m. and Christian education committee meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday.Tojans 4-H will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Packwood.

My dad used to come home and say to my stepmother, ?Sherry, pull out some extra meat. We?re having a barbeque.?That meant company.Then he would start directing the four of us girls while he made homemade barbeque sauce.He would have all of us running to prepare for a big meal while my stepmother kept asking, ?Walter, are you sure there will be enough??Jesus? followers once asked him the same question.Jesus ...

Three Fairfield churches, First Presbyterian Church, Word of Life Lutheran Church and Fairfield Friends Church, will participate in Back to Church Sunday, a national movement of churches, Sept. 16. Everyone is welcome to attend.National Back to Church Sunday is an initiative that is ?Inviting America Back to Church.? It seeks to reach the un-churched and de-churched ? people who once attended church, but don?t ...

The Fairfield Volunteer Center is seeking volunteers to plant memorial flowers from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday at the Fairfield Fire Station.The planting is part of the September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance. The day was created to provide a positive way to forever remember and pay tribute to the 9/11 victims, honor those that rose in service in response to the attacks and to remind people of the importance ...

Orders are due Sept. 7 for the S.H.A.R.E. Iowa Inc. food packages available in September.Orders can be placed by calling the St. Mary Catholic Church office at 472-3179 or the Southern Iowa Economic Development Association office at 472-6140. Orders also can be placed online at www.shareiowa.org. The pickup date will be at 8 a.m. Sept. 22 at the Fairfield Eagles Club.Several different packages are available; ...

Rex and Karen Tedrow of Libertyville will celebrate their 50th anniversary from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Libertyville Community Center.Rex Tedrow and Karen Haas were married Sept. 2, 1962, in Fairfield.He is a retired farmer, and she is retired from Southern Iowa Economic Development Association and SEDAC.The Tedrows have five children: Korkee Hamilton and husband Mike of West Point, Tim Tedrow and wife Mary of ...

BIRMINGHAM ? A benefit supper and dessert raffle for the family of the late Charles Douglas Clark is set for 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Birmingham Park shelter.The free-will donation supper includes hot dogs, hamburgers, side dishes, cake and ice cream.Whole desserts will be raffled. Tickets will be available at the event.Clark died July 18. Survivors include his wife Emily and children Madeline, 11, Deanne, 7, ...

The Polishville Community Center has dances and bingo games planned for the month of September.The month begins with a dance Sept. 9. Food will be available at 4:30 p.m., and Ned Francis of Mount Sterling will provide music for dancing from 6-9 p.m.Bingo is planned Sept. 10, with food available at 4:30 p.m., and bingo games starting at 5:45 p.m.The second dance is set for Sept. 30. Food will be available at ...

COUNTRY SCHOOLSBATAVIA ? The Country Schools Reunion will begin at 5 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Batavia Community Center.A cooperative dinner will be at 5:30 p.m.All former students and teachers of the Hickory Ridge, Centennial, No. 7, Cross Lane, Bogus, Hazel Dell, Locust Grove No. 3 and Indiana No. 1 schools are invited to attend.Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish and their own table service. Coffee ...

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 ? Labor Day. All meal sites closed.Tuesday ? chef?s choice soup, chef salad bowl, broccoli, fruit, frosted cake.Wednesday ? baked chicken, baby red potatoes, spinach, ...

The Fairfield Laughter Yoga Club will meet from 7:30-8:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Jefferson County Health Center conference room.The session is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome.Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Laura Weinberg said Laughter Yoga combines laughter exercises with deep breathing, simple stretches and deep relaxation of yoga, and its benefits include stress release, pain relief, enhanced ...

Fairfield?s First Lutheran Church awarded scholarships and scholarship/loans for the 12th year, distributing $6,750, or $750 each, among:? Lewis Russell, a senior at William Penn University.? Megan Thompson, a first-year graduate student in physical therapy at University of Iowa.? KC Lewiston, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma.? Rachel Schwartz, a sophomore at Indian Hills Community College.? ...