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The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center mobile crews recently drew 220 units of blood at seven drives held throughout the area.The mobile crew drew 18 units of blood March 5 at First United Methodist Church in Fairfield.The crew drew 22 units March 6 and another 38 March 13 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.Seventeen units were drawn March 6 at the Batavia Senior Center.Sixty-three ...

SOLITAIRESMembers of Solitaires will meet at noon Sunday in the First National Bank parking lot to pool rides to dinner.The group will have dinner at Ottumwa Hotel in Ottumwa.

AMES ? Practical Farmers of Iowa encourages Iowa farmers who are interested in transitioning their farms to organic production or adding additional conservation practices to an existing certified-organic operation to sign up for a second round of Environmental Quality Incentives Program Organic Initiative.Farmers must apply at their local USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service office by March 30 for the ...

AMES ? Women, Food and Agriculture Network has created a new curriculum manual designed to help conservation agencies, non-profits and community groups bring women landowners together in ?learning circles? meetings, to discuss goals and challenge related to soil and water conservation on their farmland.The manual ?Improving Conservation Outreach to Female Non-Operator Landowners? was created by a team of ...

First Lutheran Church invites all preschool through fourth grade elementary children to a special movie event from 1-3 p.m. Saturday.The newest Veggie Tales movie, and Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men, will be showing.Games, crafts and a snack will be offered.The event is free and open to the public.It?s an opportunity for preschool and elementary children to enjoy an afternoon of faith based activities ...

Larry D Swaim of Fairfield has been recognized nationally by the American Angus Association for having one registered Angus cow included in the association?s 2012 Pathfinder Report.Only 2,027 of the nearly 30,000 American Angus Association members are represented in this year?s report.The Pathfinder program identifies superior Angus cows based upon recorded performance traits economically important to efficient ...

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.In observance of Lent, fish will be offered as an alternative each Friday through April 8. Diners should let the meal site know if they prefer fish when making reservations.Monday ? ...

The Knights of Columbus are hosting Friday fish fries for the rest of this month, featuring a whole catfish dinner for $9 or a grilled cheese dinner for $5.Dinners also include a baked potato, side dish, dessert and drink. Extra catfish is $5.Dinner will be served from 5:30-7 p.m. today at SS Joseph and Cabrini in Richland, and at St. Mary Catholic Church parish hall in Fairfield, March 30.

Several Fairfield and rural churches are planning special Holy Week and Easter events. Rural churchesPrairie View United Methodist Church, near the intersection of Highway 78 and Packwood Road, will have Palm Sunday worship, with Communion, followed by fellowship at 9 a.m. April 1.Faith United Methodist Church in Libertyville will have a Parade of Palms at 11 a.m. April 1. The church also will have a Tenebrae ...

Worship with your hands raised. Pray with your eyes closed. Take off your shoes in worship. Give offerings to God. Practice celibacy. Live austerely.There are many rules that humans place on the worship of God.Different cultures incorporate different kinds of music.Different denominations have different requirements of dress, liturgy and days of worship.How does a searcher know which path to choose?Jesus ...

Jesus? Last Supper celebrated by Christians was his observance of the Jewish Passover.A representative from Jews for Jesus will re-create the traditional Passover service and explain how it foreshadowed Jesus? death and resurrection in a presentation, ?Christ in the Passover.?The spiritual significance of the items in the traditional Passover meal will be explained and an informal time of questions and answers ...

The following houses of worship have made changes to their calendars for Sunday through March 31.Any Fairfield house of worship that would like to have its calendar for the week of April 1-7, published in The Ledger March 30 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday.Calendars should be updated weekly or monthly for the listing to appear in The Ledger. BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE308 South B ...