MOUNT PLEASANT ? Southeast Iowa Band, led by director Robert McConnell, will be playing a free spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium in Mount Pleasant.Songs include ?Skier?s Waltz? by Morton Gould, ?Les Preludes? by Franz Liszt, ?In the Miller Mood? with arrangement by Warren Barker, and ?Procession of the Nobles? by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Hay Bales 4-H Club met March 30 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.Vice president Rachel Shaw called the meeting to order. Nine members answered the roll-call question: ?What did you or will you do on spring break??Carrigan Haile read the minutes from the last meeting. Ethan Tillis gave the treasurer?s report.The club decided to tour Goodwill to learn about the store and how it helps ...
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. ?Spring field work is getting off to a slow start as wet conditions are limiting the ability of farmers to get in the field,? Northey said.The arrival of April often triggers extensive field work. This year field work is off to a slower ...
Raising chickens in the backyard will be the topic of a free Backyard Conservation Workshop set for noon Sunday at the Fairfield Public Library.Raising chickens in backyards in town has become increasingly popular for reasons, such as low-cost sustenance, relatively low-maintenance, bug control and ?awesome? fertilizer, according to Fairfield sustainability coordinator Scott Timm.Timm said the popularity of ...
DES MOINES ? The deadline for enrolling land into the Farm Service Agency?s general Conservation Reserve Program sign up is April 15.?Interested persons need to talk to our local FSA offices now,? said John R Whitaker, state executive director for Iowa?s Farm Service Agency. ?Enrollment into CRP involves making many decisions, so time management is important.?Interested participants are encouraged to ...
Rob Wonderlich, a dairy farmer from Ollie, has been re-elected to serve on Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.?s Board of Directors, representing the Cooperative?s Central Area. He will serve a two-year term.Wonderlich milks 275 cows and raises corn, soybeans, alfalfa and pasture grass on a 750-acre farm. He is on the Iowa Dairy Nutrition Advisory Committee and the Pekin Community Dollars for Scholars board.He ...
CEDAR FALLS ? The Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois will host an afternoon family-centered carnival called ?Troop-A-Palooza? from 1-5 p.m. April 17 at the Cedar Falls High School gymnasium.The carnival will feature various minute-to-win-it games, food, face painting, a silent auction, bouncy inflatables and a kiss-the-pig contest. Chances for children to win prizes donated by Cedar Valley ...
ELDON ? Grant Wood enthusiasts will have an opportunity to see the famous painter?s works and home when the American Gothic House Center presents a guided tour April 16.The trip will first take riders to Davenport for a tour of the Figge Art Museum?s regionalist collection, which features many works by Wood. The tour also includes the museum?s exhibit on railroad photography. Following the Figge, a tour of the ...
EVANSTON, Ill. ? National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday that Fairfield High School student Edna Jones has received a National Achievement Scholarship.Jones was one of 800 Black American high school seniors to receive the scholarship, worth $2,500.The single-payment scholarships were awarded on a regional representation basis in proportion to the population of Black Americans in each ...
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The home-school team of Ben Snyder of Richland, Andrew Lamansky of Brighton, Seth Ferreira of the Kalona area and Brittany Baldosier of Fairfield placed first in the senior division of the recent Area Education Agency Future Problem Solving Regional Competition. The team also placed first in the oral presentation portion of the competition, which required teams to analyze a futuristic scenario on the topic of ...
When the ninth day of the month falls on a Friday or Saturday in 2011, Red Rock Tavern is hosting ?To the Nines on the Ninth? events to benefit the Lord?s Cupboard of Jefferson County.The first of four events kicks off with Jefferson County Green Band playing live from 10 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday.Food and cash donations will be collected all evening, and Jefferson County Green Band has volunteered to ...
MCCOYTo Kim and Cody McCoy of Bloomfield, a girl, Kaelin Ilyse, 6 pounds, 9.5 ounces, born Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Ottumwa.She has one brother, Quinn, 4.Grandparents are Ron and Christe Lamansky of Fairfield, Doug McCoy of Ottumwa, Deb Stockham of Worthington, Mo., and Jim Stockham of Monterey.Great-grandparents are Roy and Bev Lamansky of Fairfield, Jean Tharp ...
Fairfield Middle School officials have released the list of students named to the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2010-2011 school year.Students named to the straight A honor roll include:Eighth-graders: Emma Lemlin, Ashley Nelson, Alexis Ring and Dakota Webber.Seventh-graders: Abigail Adam, Logan Angstead, Nathan Davidson, Hannah Dettmann, Shelby Holcomb, Loreena Hucke, Suzannah Kingsbury, Shea ...
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