CONDORDIA UNIVERSITYSEWARD, Neb. ? Ashley Willoughby of Fairfield was named to the Concordia University honors list for the second semester of the 2011-12 academic year.The top 25 percent of undergraduate students who complete at least 12 credit hours qualify for the honors list.
FHS CLASS OF 1962The opening celebration of the 50th-year reunion of the Fairfield High School Class of 1962 will be at 6:30 p.m. June 22 at the Walton Club.Members of FHS classes 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963, 1964 and 1965 are invited to renew acquaintances with members of the Class of 1962.
URBANDALE ? Now?s your chance to show off your ?eggs-traordinary? artistic ability and win up to $500 as the Iowa Egg Council will again hold its annual egg decorating contest during the Iowa State Fair.Everyone is welcome to enter.Contest rules require that you use a standard large-size chicken egg. There are no limitations on how you decorate your egg, so get creative. Your design can take on many styles of ...
Francis Thicke of rural Fairfield is participating in Practical Farmers of Iowa?s Cooperators Program research and demonstration projects for 2012.This year, which marks the program?s 25th anniversary, nearly 80 farmers and cooperators across Iowa are participating in 53 on-farm research and demonstration projects to answer questions they have about on-farm challenges.Cover crops, on-farm energy, fly monitoring ...
WEST DES MOINES ? Energy costs are on the minds of most Americans as they watch the pumps while filling their gas tanks this summer, but farmers also are worried about how rising energy costs, from fuel to fertilizer, can impact their businesses.At 1 p.m. Wednesday, the Iowa Farm Bureau?s Margin Management Webinar Series will offer a session discussing the implications of energy prices and ethanol margins for ...
DES MOINES ? Iowa Farm Service Agency State Executive Director John R. Whitaker announced the nomination period for this year?s County Committee election begins today.The nomination period continues through Aug. 1, with elections taking place this fall.?FSA sees the role of our county committees as one that is vital,? said Whitaker. ?County Committees operate under official regulations for federal farm programs....
The Rev. Stephen C. Page, pastor of St. Mary Roman Catholic Church in Fairfield, is celebrating 25 years as a priest for the Diocese of Davenport.Celebratory Masses of Thanksgiving will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday, with a potluck dinner following Saturday?s Mass and a brunch following Mass on Sunday in the parish hall.The Rev. Thomas Noeson, O.P., will be the guest homilist.Page was born in ...
The Revs. Arley and Peg Ellingson of Libertyville are leading a Volunteer In Mission team to southwest Iowa and invite interested people to work with them in Shenandoah July 8-13.Cost is $100, which includes meals and lodging while at Camp Shenandoah. Payment is due June 25. All travel and personal purchases are at the participant?s expense.Living accommodations are at Shenandoah Wesley Center in dormitory ...
Flashing red lights in the rearview mirror evoke groans, eye rolling and dread. They rarely surprise the driver.The officer saunters to the window and asks, ?Do you know why I pulled you over??The honest answer would be, ?Yes, but I do not want to admit it.?On the spiritual judgment day, when Jesus asks, ?Do you know why you are being judged,? every man will know the reason.Who will be innocent?No one.Who ...
Historic Mount Moriah M.E. Church, 1.5 miles north of Douds on 120th Street, will host an annual community worship service in conjunction with the annual Douds Field Day/Douds-Leando Alumni weekend. Everyone is welcome and invited.A social time with breakfast refreshments begins at 9 a.m., June 24, the worship service is at 10 a.m., the same day, both at the church.Leading the service will be the Rev. Phil ...
First Church of the Nazarene will show the movie ?Courageous? (Honor Begins at Home) beginning promptly at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at the church.The community is invited.?Folks need to come early and get a good seat,? said the Rev. Howard Innis, pastor of the church.Innis shares the movie?s description: ?Four men share one calling: To serve and protect.?As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, David ...
Fairfield Middle School officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll during the fourth quarter of the 2011-12 academic year. Fifth gradeStraight A ? Brittan Bowman, Jillian Dunlap, Alison Godwin, Laurel Hilger, Madison Kraemer, Samuel Mattson, Shane Morrissey, Devyn Redmann, Noah Stone, Bailey Travis, Thomas Twohill, Joel Varela, Yirmi Vega, Abigail Waldon, Joseph ...
Fairfield girls in kindergarten through eighth grade are invited to a Girl Scout birthday party Friday at Fairfield Friends Church.A night of games, crafts, pizza, cupcakes and movies is planned to celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouting. Girls do not have to be Girl Scouts to attend.Girls can be dropped off at 6:30 p.m. Those not staying overnight should be picked up at 10 p.m. Girls in kindergarten and first ...
DES MOINES ? The Iowa State Fair Fabric and Threads Department is seeking fabric donations and volunteers for the fourth annual State Fair Sew-In.The free program offers fairgoers a chance to try their hand at simple sewing and quilting while providing warm blankets to local children in need.Donations of two-yard cuts of fabric in juvenile prints and patterns are needed for quilt backings. Cash donations are ...
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