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RUBIO ? A Rubio Music Jam is set for Saturday evening at the Rubio Depot.Food is available at 5 p.m., and the music starts at 6 p.m. A free will donation is collected to help pay for expenses.The Rubio Depot is handicapped accessible. A music jam is held the first Saturday of every month at the Rubio Depot.

Each school month, the Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the Fairfield Middle School ?Students of the Month? award.The purpose of the award is to acknowledge positive contributions of FMS students at school. The contributions range from assisting teachers and peers in classroom activities to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom. Students of the month certificates are awarded after a ...

PassionDance Company invites the public to its fourth major dance gala, entitled ?Darkness/Catharsis: The 1990s, A Fairfield Dance Gala? at the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts for three performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.Ticket prices are: $10 general admission; $5 with a student identification.The program is produced by Hilary Jordan, featuring PassionDance Company, ...

The following rural churches have made changes to their calendars for Sunday through March 10.Any rural church that would like to have its calendar for the week of March 11-17 printed in The Ledger March 8 should provide information to the newsroom by noon Wednesday.Rural churches must update calendars weekly or monthly or the listing will not be printed. Updates can be emailed to news@ffledger.com, mailed to ...

Fairfield High School student Marina McKay?s solo mime ?The Martyr Joan? was selected for the Critic?s Choice Award at the Iowa High School Speech Association?s All-State Festival Feb. 18 at the Iowa State Center in Ames.The Critic?s Choice Award is the highest honor for an IHSSA performance in the state, and a first for FHS in the area of solo mime.Approximately 24,000 students started in several categories of ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham Library Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the library.???The Rebekah Circle of the Birmingham United Methodist Church will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Pat Shaw will be the hostess.???The Birmingham Lions Club is planning a tenderloin supper for March 17.???The recent fish and chicken fry fundraising supper hosted by the Birmingham Homecoming Committee was well ...

Several Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center blood drives are scheduled in the area during March.First United Methodist Church will host a blood drive from 2-6:30 p.m. Monday in the church?s downstairs dining room. Donors who last gave blood on or before Jan. 9 are eligible to give again. Walk-in donors are welcome, but those who prefer to set an appointment can call Doris Eklund at 472-4303.Two blood ...

FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUB GARDEN DEPARTMENTMembers of the Fairfield Women?s Club Garden Department will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday at the McElhinny House.Joanne Wilson, Barbara Smith and Deb Johnson will serve as hostesses. A short business meeting will follow the program.Any area women interested can phone Donna Clark at 472-4248.

FHS CLASS OF 1956Members of the Fairfield High School Class of 1956 will meet at 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store.The group meets for breakfast the first Thursday of every month.???FHS CLASS OF 1959The Fairfield High School Class of 1959 Coffee Club will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday at Yummy?s.Everyone is welcome to attend.The group meets the first Thursday of every month.???FHS ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Duo-pianists Heidi Riepe and Joel Brown of Mount Pleasant will present a concert of music for two pianos at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in room 300 in Old Main on the campus of Iowa Wesleyan CollegeThe program will begin with Jesu, Joy of Man?s Desiring, Sicilienne and the Little Fugue in g minor, all transcriptions for two pianos of original works by J. S. Bach. Chopin?s Rondo in C major ...

SOLITAIRESMembers of Solitaries will meet for lunch at noon Sunday at Pizza Ranch.

A general Conservation Reserve Program sign up begins March 12 and runs through April 6.To provide information on this sign up, meetings on the general CRP have been scheduled in both Jefferson and Van Buren counties.The meeting in Van Buren County is set for 6:30 p.m. March 6 at the Roberts Memorial Building in Keosauqua, announced Bev Nelson, county executive director for the Van Buren County Farm Service ...