Fairfield News

MONDAYBlood Drive, Noah?s Ark Animal Foundation, 2:30-7 p.m. Appointments: 472-6080.Birmingham Lions Club, meeting, Birmingham Lions Building, 7 p.m.Eagles Joint Officers, meeting, Fairfield Eagles Club, 6:30 p.m.Youth 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, ...

KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren County Hospital Auxiliary will have a soup supper from 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Roberts Memorial Center to raise funds for its scholarship program.The incorrect date was provided and published in Friday?s edition of The Ledger.The menu will include chili, vegetable beef and potato soups.A freewill offering will be collected.Since 1991, the auxiliary has awarded 51 scholarships ...

TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGEPALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. ? Leighton Schnedler of Keosauqua is on the Trinity Christian College Dean?s List for fall 2013.Students must be enrolled full time and earn a minimum 3.5 grade point average to earn recognition.??? WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITYOSKALOOSA ? Several area students have been named to the William Penn University President?s List and Dean?s List for the fall 2013 semester.Th...

OTTUMWA ? The musical grooves and great stories of Jefferson Ross will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on the stage of Indian Hills Community College?s St. John Auditorium. Admission is free to the concert sponsored by the Indian Hills Performing Arts Department.Based in Savannah, Ga., where the Spanish moss hangs from ancient oaks like long torn veils, Ross employs his unique acoustic guitar style and ...

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: breaded pork patty on bun, romaine salad, sweet potato puffs, strawberries, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at all schools: assorted cereals, ...

FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUBThe Fairfield Women?s Club will meet at noon Wednesday for lunch at the McElhinny House.Reservations must be phoned to Lou Snead at 469-6619 by 4 p.m. Monday.Susie Martin, county program coordinator, will present a program about the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.Loretta Rinaberger will serve as hostess, with assistants Jane Rowe, Lois Kremer and Mary Grimes.Interested area women are ...

Festeburg singing at Mount Pleasant churchesMOUNT PLEASANT ? Festeburg, a group of nine male student musicians from Wartburg College in Waverly, will be in concert Jan. 18-19 at churches in Mount Pleasant.The group will be singing during the 5:30 p.m. Jan. 18 worship service at First United Methodist Church and at the 9:45 a.m. Jan. 19 worship service at First Presbyterian Church.The group is raising funds for ...

The works of several area poets have been published in ?Lyrical Iowa 2013.?John William Collinson, Maryam Daftari, Bill Graeser and Rustin Larson, all of Fairfield, have poems in the book.Janet Gilchrist of Douds, Dale Netherton of Farmington, Pris Chapman Coffin of Eldon, Emily Crouse, an Indian Hills College student, and Trenton Durflinger, a Cardinal Middle School student, also have poems printed in the ...

KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren County Hospital Auxiliary will have a soup supper from 5-7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Roberts Memorial Center to raise funds for its scholarship program.The menu will include chili, vegetable beef and potato soups.A freewill offering will be collected.Since 1991, the auxiliary has awarded 51 scholarships totaling $23,958.In addition to presenting scholarships, the auxiliary has purchased ...

Sen. Charles Grassley has nominated 55 Iowa students for consideration for appointments to the U.S. service academies.Van Buren High School student Tyler Runyon was nominated to the U.S. Air Force Academy.Each year, Grassley has the opportunity as a U.S. senator to nominate either current or future Iowa high school graduates for a select few service academy placements. The Air Force, Military and Naval academies...

JACKSBORO, Tenn. (AP) ? A Tennessee preacher who used poisonous snakes in his religious practices won?t face criminal charges. But he also won?t get back the 53 serpents wildlife officials seized from his Tabernacle Church of God.It makes no difference that a grand jury declined to indict Andrew Hamblin on Wednesday; the snakes are contraband, ?so we can?t hand them back,? Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ...

Jim and Joan Sterling of Hedrick announce the engagement of their daughter Jaime Sterling to Andrew Vandehaar, son of Criss and Brenda Vandehaar of Altoona.The bride-to-be is a 2010 graduate of Pekin High School and is a senior at the University of Northern Iowa.The groom-elect also is a senior at the University of Northern Iowa. He is a 2010 graduate of Bondurant Farrar High School.A July wedding is planned.