S.H.A.R.E. Iowa Inc., a nonprofit food-buying organization, is offering holiday meal food packages at reduced costs in November. The Thanksgiving dinner package features a 10- to 12-pound turkey, stuffing, potatoes, gravy and dinner rolls.A fresh produce assortment will include celery, apples, oranges and sweet potatoes.A pumpkin pie is included for dessert.Orders for the $28 package can be placed ...
First Presbyterian Church will host a Jazz service at 10:30 a.m Oct. 30.A 16-piece band composed of area musicians wil perform several jazz arrangements of familiar hymns during this special service.
DES MOINES ? Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey commented Monday on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service.?Harvest continues to advance and remain ahead of the five-year average for both corn and soybeans,? Northey said. ?Farmers have been able to make good progress and the light showers seen statewide in the past week have not caused significan...
The following rural churches made changes to their calendars for Sunday through Oct. 29.Any rural church that wants its calendar for the week of Oct. 30 through Nov. 5 printed in The Ledger Oct. 27, 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 lifestyles@ffledger.com, mailed ...
The Fairfield Latin and Ballroom Association will host a Latin, Ballroom and Swing dance at Morning Star Studio, 8-10 p.m. SundayA Waltz lesson starts at 7:30. p.m.Admission is $3.For more information, contact Paul Saipher at 641-919-5698 or email fflbra@iowatelecom.net.
Lions host carry-in, program MondayThe Birmingham Lions will have a carry-in supper at 7 p.m. Monday at the Lions building.State Trooper Jason Marlow will present the program.The October committee is Harold Dickinson and Walt Hill. Trick or treat is MondayTrick-or-treat night in Birmingham is 6-8 p.m. Monday.Residents who want children to stop should turn on porch lights.
To Rachael Johnson and C. John Donahue of Fairfield, a boy, Leo Alan, 8 pounds, 4 ounces, born Tuesday, July 19, 2011, at Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Ottumwa.Grandparents are Dave and Jeanna Johnson of Richland and Charlotte Donahue of Fairfield.Great-grandparents are Larry and Pat Johnson of Casey, Steve and Ruth Baker of Birmingham and Marcine Baxter of Richland and the late Mervin Baxter.Great-gr...
Parents as Teachers will have a social connection playgroup from 6-7:30 p.m. Monday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.Activities will include a spider web matching, spider sensory box, leaf pounce, football kicking, fall cookie decorating, apple counting, corn shelling, Play-Doh play and other P.A.T. fall playgroup favorites.Hay Bales 4-H Club members helped plan the event and are ...
The Broadway Players of FHS will present the classic ?The Diary of Anne Frank? Oct. 28-30, according to Scott Slechta, Fairfield High School drama director.?The Diary of Anne Frank,? the play adapted from Anne Frank?s famous diary, made its theater debut in 1956. Since then, it has been reproduced countless times on stages across the country and abroad. Collaborators Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, ...
STOCKPORT ? Community support is vital to the Stockport Volunteer Fire Department to help purchase necessary equipment for its volunteers to protect Stockport and the surrounding areas during fires and other emergencies. Local farmer Rick Niederhuth knows the importance of volunteer fire protection and chose the Stockport Fire Department when given the opportunity to direct a $2,500 donation to a nonprofit ...
OTTUMWA ? Saxophonist David Sharp, professor of instrumental music and jazz at Indian Hills Community College, will present a faculty jazz recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in St. John Auditorium on the Ottumwa campus.The concert is free and open to the public.Accompanying Sharp will be four of the most outstanding jazz musicians from Des Moines: Jim Oatts on trumpet, Sam Salomone on piano, Steve Charlson on ...
MOUNT PLEASANT ? Michael Hill of the University of Iowa will engage Iowa Wesleyan College students in a conversation about the Ethics of Merit: some black views and some white views, at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium.His program will introduce students to the debates over excellence that framed their births in the early 1990s, and ask how these ways of thinking have formed ...
Clover Kids create art for display The Jefferson County Fairfield 4-H Clover Kids met from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.The 27 members present, working in groups, were asked to create pictures with limited supplies of cardboard, packing peanuts, wooden sticks and markers within a set time limit. The pictures were displayed in local banks during National 4-H ...
The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week.Meals are at 11:30 a.m.Monday ? pork cutlet, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts with cheese, blushing pears.Tuesday ? chili with beans, creaming coleslaw, cereal muffin, sliced strawberries.Wednesday ? beef patty on a wheat bun, baked potato with sour cream, slices carrots, fruit cocktail, orange juice.Thursday ? liver and ...
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