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Larry and Bette Countryman of Birmingham will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, with an open house reception Sunday.The couple was married June 22, 1962, in Birmingham. They have two daughters, Lisa Countryman of Columbus, Ga., and Sarah Ledger and husband Greg of Brighton. They also have two grandsons.Friends and family are invited to the open house reception from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the City Park in ...

DOUDS ? Entertainment for the 63rd Annual Douds Field Day has been announced.The band Bluegrass Blondies will perform at 3 p.m. June 23 at Yates Memorial Park.The Bluegrass Blondies, the Scott Amos family of Ottumwa, are talented musicians and vocalists providing audiences across the Midwest delightful entertainment experiences in a wholesome, family-oriented style. Performing traditional and contemporary ...

Dan and Deanne Bowers of Fairfield will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary Monday.Dan Bowers and Deanne Redman were married June 18, 1977, in Leon. They both work at Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store.The couple has three children: Andy Bowers of Fairfield, Angie Bisgard of Fairfield and Alycia Bowers of Eagle Grove.The Bowerses celebrated by taking a recent trip to Branson, Mo.

BONAPARTE ? Results are in for the Civil War doll-dressing contest held in Bonaparte during Bonaparte Main Street?s Civil War Experience.The contest, sponsored by Gianna and Roy Barrow of Bonaparte, brought dolls and designers together to create a new ?lease on life? for 1950s- and 1960s-era dolls. Nineteen dolls were dressed by 16 different women from varying ages, communities and expertise in 1860s costume in ...

Jefferson Decat is sponsoring a free Mental Health First Aid Training from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and June 22 at the Fairfield school district?s ~ Center.Mental health first aid is the initial help given to a person showing signs or symptoms of mental illness or in a mental health crisis. Mental health first aid is provided until appropriate professional or other help can be engaged.Participants will learn: ...

PACKWOOD ? Pekin Middle School officials have added the name of a student to the honor roll list for the second semester of the 2011-12 academic year.Ashlyn Zook has been added to the seventh-grade Regular Honor Roll.The complete list of Pekin Middle School students earning recognition on the honor roll was printed in the May 31 Ledger.

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, ...

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 ...