Fairfield News

Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week.Meals are served at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday at the Fairfield senior center and at noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Lockridge senior center.Monday ? baked chicken, scalloped potatoes, asparagus cuts, peach-strawberry-banana medley, wheat dinner roll or bread with margarine.Tuesday ? roast beef, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, ...

The following area houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through June 11.Any congregation wanting to have its calendar for the week of June 12-18 published in The Ledger June 10 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday.Listings are not perpetually printed. A weekly or monthly calendar must be submitted for the listing to appear in The Fairfield Ledger; specify if the ...

PACKWOOD ? Pekin Middle School officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2015-16 academic year. Straight ?A?Eighth-graders on the Straight ?A? honor roll include: Kylie Davis, Bradley Gaines, Colten Glosser, Faith Goudy, Delaney Harbison, Gavin Harl, Tara Kielkopf, Emilee Linder, Kylie Noel, Ethan Phillips, McKenna Swearingen, and ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Presbyterian Ladies will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church. The roll-call response will be a Bible verse about ?cup.? Mel Stockwell will be hostess. She also will have devotions and the program.???The tractor pull, which is part of Birmingham Homecoming, will be held June 26. Birmingham Homecoming is Friday through Sunday.???Gayle Hervey, the food service director of Van Buren Community ...

Addi Rose Richmond and J.J. Greiner, together with their families, announce their engagement.The bride-elect, of Fairfield, is the daughter of Staci and Roger Wright and Bart and Malinda Richmond. She is a radiologic technologist at Ottumwa Regional Health Center.The groom-elect, of Packwood, is the son of Jodi Greiner and Matt Milligan and John Greiner and Jo Stutzman. He is a farmer with JK AG LLC.The couple ...

RICHLAND ? The kickoff party for Richland Public Library?s summer reading program, ?On Your Mark, Get Set, READ,? is set from 3-4 p.m. Tuesday at the library.The free kickoff partly is open to children going into kindergarten through fifth grade. Preschool children can attend with an adult caregiver. Attendees can register for ?Team Richland?s Fitness Club? and stay for the party.Children going into kindergarten...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast: cook?s choice. Lunch: cook?s choice.Tuesday ? breakfast: cook?s choice. Lunch: cook?s choice. Tuesday is the last day of school; students will be dismissed at 2:30 p.m.The menu can be found on the Fairfield Community School District?s website at www.fairfieldsfuture.org, where parents can monitor ...

AMES ? Iowa State University Extension and Outreach food safety specialists need Iowans? help in acquiring samples of aronia berry jam and jelly for an upcoming ISU Extension and Outreach research project titled ?Establishing a Standard of Identity for Jams and Jellies Made from Aronia Berries.?Aronia is a woody perennial shrub in the family Rosacea, and is native to the eastern United States. The hardy Zone 3 ...

FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUB GARDEN DEPARTMENTFairfield Women?s Club Garden Department will meet at the McElhinny House Thursday to depart by bus at 8:15 a.m. for the Oskaloosa area to tour Sunnyslope Greenhouse, Nadine Rozenboom?s garden and Stam?s Greenhouse.Reservations are due by noon Tuesday.

The Fairfield Farmers Market is held Wednesdays and Saturdays from May through the end of October at Howard Park. The market is open from 3-6 p.m. on Wednesdays and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays.Vendors at the market always offer a variety of baked goods, locally made items and plants in addition to locally grown fruits and vegetables.Some of the fruits and vegetables available in June will include spinach, ...

Dick and Norma Bogner of Fairfield will be celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary Friday with their family.The Bogners have two children: Rick Bogner and wife Sue Ann of Fairfield; and Lynne Pinegar and husband Dave of Tipton. They also have four grandchildren.The Bogners recently returned from spending the winter in Bowling Green, Florida.

The following area houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through May 28.Any congregation wanting to have its calendar for the week of May 29 through June 4 published in The Ledger May 27 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday.Listings are not perpetually printed. A weekly or monthly calendar must be submitted for the listing to appear in The Fairfield Ledger; specify if ...