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The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week. Meals are at 11:30 a.m.Monday ? all meal sites closed for the New Year holiday.Tuesday ? hearty beef and bean vegetable soup, saltine crackers, Orange Surprise Salad, homemade wheat dinner roll, apricot half, crispy rice bar.Wednesday ? roast pork with gravy, mashed potatoes, scalloped cabbage, banana-orange cup.Thursday ? roast ...

Registration is under way for a youth biddy ball camp planned by the Fairfield Park and Recreation Department.The camp, for boys and girls in kindergarten through second grade, will meet for three consecutive Sundays beginning Feb. 5 from 1-2 p.m. in the Pence Elementary School gym.Adjustable hoops are available at the gym.The camp is an introductory basketball program. The participants will work on learning ...

Tom and Julie Wetrich of Fairfield announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of daughter Megan Wetrich to Robert Walker, son of Jeff and Sherri Wetherell of Stockport and Steve and Wendy Walker of Jacksonville, Fla.The bride- and groom-elect are both 2006 graduates of Fairfield High School. Wetrich currently works as a massage therapist in Ankeny, while Walker works at Camp Dodge in Des Moines for the Iowa ...

OTTUMWA ? Tickets are available for the sixth annual eight-course gourmet dinner to benefit students in Indian Hills Community College?s culinary arts program.The sixth annual dinner event will be held in the Indian Hills Dining Room on Jan. 27.The dinner will feature a special guest, chef Julian Arranz of the award-winning father and son pastry team of Raul and Julian Arranz from Valladolid, Spain. Arranz will ...

The following rural churches have made changes to their calendars for Sunday through Jan. 7.Any rural church that would like to have its calendar for the week of Jan. 8-14 printed in The Ledger Jan. 5 should provide information to the newsroom by noon Jan. 4.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 PO ...

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center has two blood drives scheduled.The first is set from 2-6:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at First United Methodist Church in Fairfield.Donors who last gave blood on or before Nov. 14 are eligible to participate.For appointments, call Doris Eklund at 472-4303.The second blood drive is set from 3-7 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Batavia Senior Citizen Center.Donors who last gave ...

John William Reed of rural Libertyville is celebrating his 100th birthday.An open house celebration will be held from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 7 at Faith United Methodist Church in Libertyville.Mr. Reed was born Jan. 8, 1912, in Jefferson County and was married to Ella Mae (Smith) Reed for 63 years before her passing in 2006.He worked for Louden Machinery Company for 38 years until his retirement in 1977, farmed in ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? no school.Tuesday ? BBQ Ribb on bun, onion rings, pears, cookie, milk.Wednesday ? steak fingers, bread and butter sandwich, corn, mixed fruit, milk.Thursday ? Pig-in-a-Blanket, baked beans, pineapple, pudding, milk.Jan. 6 ? hot ham and cheese on bun, green beans, peach halves, Sunshine Bar, milk.

FRIDAYNarcotics Anonymous, New Life Community Church, 6:30 p.m.Alcoholics Anonymous, Fairfield Friends Church. Call 233-5139.Al-Anon, Fairfield Friends Church, 8 p.m. SATURDAYFairfield Farmers? Market, Fairfield Senior Citizen Center, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.Free Gospel Sing, Roberts Memorial Center, Keosauqua, 5:30 p.m.Boy Scout Troop 33 of Donnellson, flag raising/Eagle Scout rank presentation ceremony, ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMENJefferson County Farm Bureau Women will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Pizza Ranch.Hostess and program presenter is Shirley Stanley. Roll call will be on the people, language and sports of Canada.All interested women are invited to attend.

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham Library Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the library.???The pastor of the Birmingham United Methodist Church will be on leave until Jan. 31. The church will have different speakers for Sunday services, beginning with John Preston giving the sermon Sunday.? Arlene Lyon, Ledger correspondent

Fairfield Park and Recreation Department is offering Solution: Intensify!, a small-group personal training workshop.The program is designed for men and women who want to kick start a fitness routine, push through a plateau or continue with an already dynamic fitness program.Designed for no more than 12 participants, each person will have an opportunity to achieve what they have not achieved before through ...