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Jessica Wetherell of Mount Pleasant and Colten Hines of Bonaparte announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.The bride-elect is the daughter of Charles and Janet Sutter of Mount Pleasant and Jefferey and Sherri Wetherell of Stockport. She will graduate from Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant in December with a bachelor?s degree in accounting. She is employed by Cambridge Investment Research Inc. in ...

FAIRFIELD LATIN and BALLROOM ASSOCIATIONThe Fairfield Latin and Ballroom Association is hosting a Latin, swing and ballroom dance at Sunday evening at Morning Star Studio.A lesson in fox trot begins at 7:30 p.m.The dance is from 8-10 p.m.Admission is $3 per person.For more information, contact Paul Saipher at 919-5698 or email fflbra@iowatelecom.net.

United Methodist Women will serve homemade ice cream and cookies from 6-8 p.m., Aug. 3, in the First United Methodist Church basement.Freewill offerings will be accepted.Youth art work will be on display on the first floor of the church.The community is invited.

Lebanon United Methodist Church is hosting an ice cream social beginning at 5 p.m. Aug. 7.A free will offering will be taken.The public is invited.

The 91st annual Cedar Falls Bible conference will be held Saturday through Aug. 5, in the Cedar Falls Bible Conference tabernacle on the Riverview Conference Center grounds in Cedar Falls.Conference sessions each morning and evening, and concerts, are open to everyone at no charge. Free will offerings will be taken at each session.During all tabernacle sessions there also will be sessions for children and ...

Hold a piece of candy to a child. What do you expect? That they will come.Have you ever seen a child who refused to come? Perhaps the child is fearful or shy, angry or stubborn.The child only needs to come.The adult may even move toward the child. Then the child can receive the gift without coming.Still, the child must reach out to receive the prize.So it is with God.He waits with hands full.He desires to ...

Did you know that the metabolic rate of rodents (squirrels, voles, muskrats, beavers, chipmunks, woodchucks, gophers, mice, rats, and shrews) is so high that they must eat almost constantly to sustain themselves? They are the most numerous of Iowa?s wild mammals and share ranks with birds, moles, rabbits, raccoons, and deer as unwanted garden visitors. Repellants, scare tactics, traps, and barriers are all ...

Jennifer Lynn Powers and Kyle Vincent Redinger, both of Fairfield, announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.The bride-elect is the daughter of Mike and Janis Powers of Pleasant Plain. She is a 2010 graduate of Suburban Heights Baptist School.The groom-elect is the son of Steve and Patty Redinger of Fairfield. He is a 2006 graduate of Fairfield High School. He is employed by Agri Industrial Plastics.The ...

STOCKPORTSchool will be starting soon and school supplies are needed to help get Stockport children ready.Organizers are in need of single subject wide-lined notebooks, wide-lined loose-leaf paper, pencils, markers, colored pencils, scissors, pens with red, blue and black ink, pink erasers and pencil erasers, highlighters, rulers, crayons, glue sticks and glue bottles, folders with pockets and folders with ...

DES MOINES ? The State Soil Conservation Committee Research and Demonstration Fund has assistance available to support research or education/demonstration projects exploring sustainable agriculture and projects focused on reducing nonpoint pollution.Funds are available to collaborative teams of scientists, farmers, institutions, soil and water conservation districts and educators.Applications must be submitted ...

With the continued increases occurring in farmland values, many people are asking ?What will cash rental rates look like for the 2013 crop year?? Setting cash rental rates in stable times is hard enough. Setting cash rental rates when there are volatile prices for corn, soybeans, and input cost, is even more difficult.Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is offering a Farm Land Leasing workshop on at ...

Sara Adam and Makayla Kessel, both of Fairfield, will be among the candidates competing for the title of Miss Teen of Iowa at the 2012 state pageant Friday through Sunday in Pella.Adam is the daughter of James and Rebecca Adam, and Kessel is the daughter of Steve and Lori Kessel.The winner of the pageant competition will receive a $1,000 cash scholarship and a $500 U.S. Savings Bond. The new state titleholder ...