Community

MONDAYPolishville Bingo, Polishville Community Center, food available, 4:30 p.m.; bingo, 5:45 p.m.Jefferson County Cattlemen Association, Pizza Ranch, 7 p.m. Call Adam Ledger at 919-0898 or Zoe Moritz at 989-413-9495.Birmingham Lions Club, Birmingham Lions Building, 7 p.m.Little Tumblers, first of five classes, Roosevelt Community Recreation Center. Details and registration: 472-6159 or www.fairieldparksandrec...

The Birmingham Lions Club will host a Mississippi Regional Blood Center blood drive from 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lions Club building.Walk-in donors are welcome; for appointments, call Harry Anderson at 319-498-4201.Donors who last gave blood on or before July 19 are eligible to participate again Thursday.A blood drive is set from 2-6:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield.Walk-in ...

The Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at the middle school and high school: assorted cereals, assorted cereal bars, orange juice and milk; breakfast at the elementary schools: assorted cereals, cereal bar or Nutri-Grain bar; orange juice and milk. Lunch: Sloppy Joe on bun, golden corn, fresh grapes, milk.Tuesday ? breakfast at the ...

First Augustana Lutheran Church in Lockridge is holding Sunday service at the New Sweden Chapel, located northwest of Lockridge, at 10 a.m. this week.The New Sweden Chapel, listed with the National Historical Society, closed in 1948 and First Augustana Lutheran of Lockridge was appointed as caretakers and overseers. Services are held at the chapel twice a year ? on the first Sunday in June and the second Sunday ...

Cub Scouts will be holding a new scout signup at 7 p.m. Thursday at Washington Elementary School.Parents should come with their first- to fifth-grade son to hear information about joining Cub Scouts and the activities available in scouting.Leaders from local Cub Scout Pack 67 will be at Washington school to answer questions and help fill out applications and collect fees.Contact Sara Folsom of Boys Scouts of ...

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 ? glazed ham ball, scalloped potatoes, black bean corn tomato salad, muffin, peach-strawberry-banana medley.Tuesday ? beef luncheon steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, ...

CHAPTER MB, P.E.O.Members of Chapter MB, P.E.O. will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Josie Hannes Design.???WE CAREWe Care, a Fairfield cancer support group, will resume meeting once a month at a new day and time: the second Thursday evening of the month.The next meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Jefferson County Health Center?s conference room. It will be a time for sharing, caring and supporting each ...

Basal Faith Parish holds Sunday worship service at 8:15 a.m. in Libertyville; 9:45 a.m. in Birmingham with choir practice following, and 11 a.m. in Stockport.Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. in Libertyville and 10:45 a.m. in Birmingham.Choir practice for Stockport is held on Wednesday nights.Other calendar events for the week of Sunday through Sept. 15 include, Faith United Methodist Church AD board meeting at ...

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 ...