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BONAPARTE ? Vintage bride dolls dressed in 1860s period costume will be sold by silent auction Saturday and Sunday during the Bonaparte Autumn Fest held in conjunction with the Scenic Drive in Bonaparte?s Opera House Community Room.Displayed in Waterfront Place during the Civil War Experience weekend, outfits were designed and created by southeast Iowa women. Favorites were voted upon by quarters which brought ...

CANCER EXTERMINATORS RELAY FOR LIFE TEAMThe Cancer Exterminators Relay for Life Team, sponsored by Fairfield Pest Control, will be at the 1st Fridays Art Walk selling brooms, dust pans, feather dusters, mop heads, scrub brushes, squeegees and other odds and ends donated by Harper Brush Works.The team will be pre-selling 2012 Jefferson County Survivor Calendars for $15, with 100 percent of all proceeds to be ...

Dharma Foundation is welcoming Mark Romero to Fairfield Saturday for a workshop and concert at Central Park Furnishings.The events will help the Dharma Foundation raise scholarship funds for Maharishi School students.Romero?s flamenco guitar music is said to be a channel for energy that eliminates negative influences in the environment and empowers people to break free of the limiting thoughts, beliefs and ...

BLOOMFIELD ? The Eighth Annual Davis County Civil War Days is set for Saturday and Sunday.The event is organized by the Davis County Civil War Guerrilla Raid Society.Historic presentations are planned in the morning and re-enactments are set for Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Shooters Roost south of Bloomfield. Signs will be posted. The re-enactments are free. Those attending should bring lawn chairs.A...

FHS Class of 1959The coffee club of the Fairfield High School graduating class of 1959 will gather at 9 a.m. Thursday at Yummy?s Gourmet Cakes.The group meets the first Thursday of every month at Yummy?s. Everyone is welcome to attend.

OTTUMWA ? Dr. Diane Debinski, a professor in the department of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa State University, will discuss ?Prairie Restoration: Putting the Pieces Back Together to Achieve a Functioning Ecosystem? at the annual Borlaug Fall Seminar at Indian Hills Community College Oct. 11. Debinski will speak at 7 p.m. in room 5 of the Rural Health Education Center on the college?s Ottumwa ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? A fundraising concert for Community Kitchen, featuring Richie Lee and the Fabulous Fifties, is set Saturday at the Heatilator Performing Arts Center in Mount Pleasant.The 2 p.m. show will be honoring the return of 832 Engineering Company.The second show will begin at 7 p.m.Advance Tickets will be available at the Community Kitchen and stores in Mount Pleasant. Tickets also will be ...

T.T.T. CHAPTER EMembers of T.T.T., Chapter E, will have their October meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the McElhinny House.The group meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month September through May at the McElhinny House.­­­??? FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUB GARDEN DEPARTMENTThe Fairfield Women?s Club Garden Department will meet at the McElhinny House Thursday morning before departing for a tour at ...

The Superstars Singing Competition returns to the Sondheim Theater at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. A near capacity audience saw Superstars 2010 and voted Priscilla Marlar the winner.This year, Superstars has gone national with contestants from California, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Minnesota and Iowa competing. The competition is expected to be fierce, with the audience facing a difficult choice in determining ...

Brad and Denise Hall of Linby announce the engagement of their daughter Whitney Hall to Brent Pacha, son of Tim and Jackie Pacha of Fairfield.Hall graduated from University of Northern Iowa in 2008, with a bachelor?s degree in graphic communications. She is employed at Cambridge Investment Research Inc., in Fairfield as a graphic designer.Pacha graduated from Iowa State University in 2010 with a master?s ...

The Fairfield Latin and Ballroom Association will host a Latin, Ballroom and Swing dance Sunday at Morning Star Studio.A lesson in a Cha Cha starts at 7:30 p.m.The dance is from 8-10 pm. Admission is $3. For more information, contact Paul Saipher at 919-5698 or email fflbra@iowatelecom.net.

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Mehr Peace will present two programs of Indian music and dance at Iowa Wesleyan College Thursday.Programs will begin at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium. Both are open to the public at no charge.Mehr Peace is a trio of artists that performs classical and avant-garde music and dance inspired by the traditions of India. The trio has been described as ?a ...