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Freedom Trikers, a not-for-profit organization which focuses on children with disabilities and illnesses and the elderly, is having its annual celebration today through Sunday at Jefferson County Park.Activities during the three-day event include trike rides, games and an auction. All proceeds raised will go toward the Freedom Trikers cause.A dinner will be held today at 5 p.m. On Saturday, trike rides and ...

Volunteers answered a request from former Mother Cabrini/St. Joseph?s Catholic Church parishioner, Mary Jo Sobaski Gruneich, to help in a second round of sewing for Haiti.Earlier this summer, Mother Cabrini Parish Center in Richland became a giant sewing studio with 17 volunteers at sewing machines, cutting tables, ironing boards and a detailing center, to create shorts for orphaned boys.?With every pair of ...

Two Roads Educational Arts and Theatre will present a 10-performance run ? and a special cookie party ? of ?A Year with Frog and Toad? at TREAT Theatre in the Broadway Building today through July 29.Nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Broadway Musical, Arnold Lobel?s well-loved characters hop from the page to the stage in Robert and Willie Reale?s musical.Conceived by Lobel?s daughter, Adrianne ...

St. Joseph Church in East Pleasant Plain will host a congregate meal from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 26.The menu will include ham balls, mashed potatoes, green beans, sweet corn, a salad bar, assorted cakes, pies and cream puffs, bread and beverage.Reservations are not required, but appreciated. Reservations should be made by the morning of July 25 by calling Darlene Baldosier at 472-1828 or Caryl Smith at ...

SOLITAIRESThe Solitaires will have dinner Sunday at the Village Cafe in Stockport.To carpool, meet in the First National Bank parking lot at noon. FAIRFIELD LATIN and BALLROOM ASSOCIATIONFairfield Latin and Ballroom Association is hosting a Latin, Swing and Ballroom dance Sunday at Morning Star Studio.A lesson in samba is at 7:30 p.m. The dance is 8-10 p.m. Admission is $3 per person.

Tomatoes are the most popular vegetable crop in Iowa. Many diseases and disorders can affect tomatoes during the growing season. Some of these include Septoria leaf spot, early blight, and Anthracnose.Septoria leaf spot, caused by the fungus Septoria lycopersici, is the most common foliar disease of tomatoes in Iowa. It first appears as small, water-soaked spots that soon become circular spots about 1/8 inch in ...

The Fairfield Middle School summer concert band sessions begin Monday and continue through Aug. 3.The sessions will be held in Fairfield High School commons. Students should use the northeast door to enter.Times are:? Sixth-grade band, for incoming sixth-grade band students, rehearses from 8-9:15 a.m. each weekday.? Combined incoming seventh- and eighth-grade band rehearse from 9:45-11 a.m.Students will be ...

Ira and Kathy VanCuren of Birmingham and Jocelyn Dagami of Boston, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter Shari VanCuren to Brian Wood.Wood is the son of Steve and Connie Wood of DeSoto.VanCuren is a 1999 graduate of Van Buren High School and a 2003 graduate of Drake University, with a degree in law and politics and is employed by Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, PLC.Wood is ...

DES MOINES ? The Iowa State Farm Service Agency Office reminds producers of the following acreage reporting requirements and other upcoming deadlines.? Sunday ? Final date to report spring seeded crops, CRP and NAP acreages. A transition to new reporting deadlines allows producers who have not already done so, to file an FSA-578, Report of Acreage, certification for their farm by July 15 for crops and land ...

The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center menu for the coming week is:Monday ? pork cutlet, sour cream mashed potatoes, gravy, spinach, fruit, orange juice.Tuesday ? Swedish meatballs, noodles, broccoli, banana bran muffin, Waldorf salad.Wednesday ? baked chicken, potato salad, black bean-corn-tomato salad, fruit, bread pudding, whipped topping.Thursday ? baked fish, tartar sauce, oven-brown potato, creamy coleslaw ...

Basal Faith Parish invites the congregation of Stockport United Methodist Church to join in worshiping and praising God with field outreach minister the Rev. Phil Carver on July 22, and join in a time of fellowship and potluck lunch followed by discussion about how the faith community can continue to be in ministry.

AMES ? The largest and longest-running fundraising campaign conducted by Iowa 4-H members for 4-H members had another successful year.?This year, 427 clubs representing 85 counties raised $27,115.67 to support Iowa youth,? said Kris Fish Kuhlmann, executive director of the Iowa 4-H Foundation.In the past 27 years, Iowa 4-H members have contributed more than $700,000 to support Iowa 4-H programs and activities, ...