Fairfield News

Several free home improvement workshops are planned during Home Improvement Week Monday through Sept. 24 at the Jefferson County ISU Extension office.The workshops will teach participants about fixing up their ?energy-hog? homes, making homes more efficient and healthy, restoring features of older homes and more about building science.The first workshop will be ?Sealing Your Home with Bill McAnally? at 7:15 ...

The Fairfield Public Library will have a two-week book sale beginning with an ?early-bird preview? from 6-8 p.m. Friday.A $5 admission will be charged for the early-bird sale; the fee is waived for members of Friends of the Fairfield Library. After Friday, admission to the sale will be free.Featured will be adult fiction and nonfiction books, children?s books, audio books, DVDs, VHS tapes and music CDs.Thanks ...

Jefferson County Relay for Life will hold its first 5K run/walk the evening of Oct. 8 at The Walton Club.Registration for ?Light Up the Night for Hope? will begin at 5 p.m., with the run/walk starting at 6:30 p.m.Preregistration before Wednesday is $25 per participant, with a T-shirt guaranteed. If 10 registrations are submitted at the same time, a discounted rate of $20 per paricipant is applied.After ...

FAIRFIELD HIGH SCHOOL CLASS of 1956Fairfield High School Class of 1956 will hold its 60th-year reunion Friday and Saturday.An informal gathering will be at 6 p.m. Friday at the Walton Club. Nonclass members are invited.A banquet will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Fairfield Elks Lodge. Friends of the classmates are welcome to join the group after the meal.For information, call 919-6583, 472-2616 or 472-2543.

OTTUMWA ? The International Affairs Office at Indian Hills Community College invites area residents to take part in a unique cultural experience called the International Friendship Program. The effort allows local families the chance to make a difference in the lives of the college?s nearly 200 international students, who come from six of the world?s seven continents.The program is a non-live-in social host ...

Delbert A. and Carolyn K. Fye will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with an open house from 2-4 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Ollie Baptist Church.Delbert Fye and Carolyn Henry were married Sept. 8, 1956, at the Ollie Baptist Church.The couple?s children are: DA Fye of Kingston, Tennessee, and Tracy Fye of Ollie and his fiancée Kelli of Hedrick. They also have two grandsons and are expecting a great-grandson.The...

Proceeds from the raffle of this quilt will be donated to a young local family whose husband/father unexpectedly died to help with funeral expenses. The newly made quilt was constructed with 100 percent cotton fabric and batting, created in a smoke-free home, and is full-size, approximately 83-inches by 83 inches. It will be displayed today through Monday in the Century21 window on the square. Tickets are one for ...

Gertrude ?Trudy? Parcell Wright of Fairfield will be 85 years od Sept. 8. A card shower is planned. Cards can be sent to her at 205 E. Adams Ave., Fairfield 52556.

COUNTRY SCHOOLBATAVIA ? The Country School Reunion will be held Sept. 10 at the Batavia Senior Citizens Center.Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m.All former students and teachers of the Hickory Ridge No. 2, Centennial, No. 7, Cross Lanes No. 3, Bogus No. 5, Hazel Dell, Locus Grove No. 3, Indiana No. 1, Des Moines No. 2, Highland Center and Brookville are welcome to attend. Anyone who has attended a one-room ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMENJefferson County Farm Bureau Women will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Pizza Ranch.Christine Schiedel will serve as hostess.Roll-call response is the climate and population of Syria.The program will be a tour of the Carnegie Historical Museum. Mark Shafer will lead the tour.All interested women are invited to attend.

Polishville Community Center has announced events, including two dances and one lunch, with bingo, scheduled in September.The first dance is scheduled Sept. 11, with Jerry Beauchamp of Eldora providing the music. Food will be available for purchase at 4:30 p.m., and dancing will be from 6-9 p.m.The lunch and bingo will be Sept. 14. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with bingo starting at 12:30 ...

Keith and Donna Pratt of rural Birmingham will celebrte their 60th wedding anniversary from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Fairfield.Keith Pratt and Donna McCracken were united in marriage Sept. 9, 1956, at the Methodist church in Bonaparte.The couple has five children: Allen Pratt and wife Elise of Chicago; Cindy Kennedy and husband Ancel of Truro; Brenda and husband Dave of Vestavia ...