Fairfield News

Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk is looking for participants for its April 4 event ?Spring Garden Celebration.?Participants are needed to help turn the heart of Fairfield into a sure sign of spring as the organization partners with downtown businesses and the Fairfield Public Library to host ?Books in Bloom.?Open to anyone, art walk organizers are building on the Fairfield library?s successful event of the same ...

Editor?s note: The monthlyTo Your Heath column is a venue for Jefferson County Health Center to provide health information that will benefit The Fairfield Ledger?s readers. To suggest ideas for future articles or to obtain information, call Jefferson County Health Center community relations manager Ginny Hughes at 469-4198. The Jefferson County Health Center has a fully equipped Sleep Lab. You may have seen ...

With spring and its severe weather around the corner, it is time for the biennial National Weather Service?s Severe Weather Spotter Course.The free course for the general public and first responders will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.This year?s course will include topics on cloud formations, spotting techniques, tornado development, early detection and much ...

MONDAYYouth Fitness Class, for third- through eighth-graders, Roosevelt Community Recreation Center, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $3 per class; free with membership. No registration needed.Co-Dependency Anonymous, First Presbyterian Church, 7 p.m.Alcoholics Anonymous, 107 Market St., Keosauqua, 8 p.m. Call 641-777-4700. TUESDAYSpaghetti Dinner, Fairfield Lions Club fundraiser supporting Fairfield High School sports and ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa ? The California Guitar Trio and the Montreal Guitar Trio will appear at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Washington, Iowa, Community Theater.Together they represent four countries and 40 years of performing experience.California Guitar Trio?s steel- stringed guitars blend naturally with Montreal Guitar Trio?s nylon-stringed guitars.The Washingon Concert Association?s program will feature new arrangemen...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at all schools: assorted cereals, cereal bars and Nutri-Grain Bars, orange juice, milk. Lunch: chicken patty on bun, sweet potato fries, green beans, sliced pineapple, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: ...

The Fairfield Volunteer Center is offering a workshop on Writing Strong Proposals March 22 at the McElhinny House.Grant Writing 101 will be 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and focus on assessing needs and researching funding sources.Grant Writing 102 will be 1:30-3:45 p.m. and focus on designing a program and writing a proposal.The workshop will be presented by the Fairfield Volunteer Center?s executive director Elaine ...

The 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.Lent will be observed through April 18. Fish will be offered as an alternative each Friday. When making reservations, let the center know if fish is requested.Monday ? St. Patrick?s ...

The Fairfield Public Library is planning a free educational workshop series called ?Technology Tuesdays.?Input from patrons will help determine the topics for computer users at all experience levels from newbie to uber-geek.?Workshop requests have run the gamut from very basic ? how to use a mouse and keyboard ? to using advanced software features,? said library director Rebecca Johnson. ?Libraries are increasin...

Friends of Shimek will have its second free Annual Forest Education Day 9 a.m. to noon March 22.Anyone interested in learning about Shimek Forest and the trees they see around them every day in southeast Iowa should meet at the Shimek State Forest Headquarters about a miles north of Farmington at 33653 Route J56.Forester John Byrd will be the host for a morning of educational fun to learn more about the forest ...

First Christian?s final monthly soup supper set ThursdayFirst Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fairfield will have its final monthly soup supper of the season from 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday.A variety of soups will be served along with Kenny?s Cornbread, relishes and pies.Everyone is invited.A freewill offering will be collected. Maxine Bates Circle meetingMaxine Bates Circle of First Baptist Church ...

FAIRFIELD KIWANIS CLUBSarah Horgen, education coordinator of the University of Iowa Natural History Museum, will be the speaker at the Fairfield Kiwanis Club meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.Horgen will speak about the archaeological scientific mammoth dig near Oskaloosa and the natural history museum.Anyone interested in attending the meeting to hear Horgen?s presentation can call Howard L. Hunt, president of ...