Fairfield News

JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMENThe Jefferson County Farm Bureau Women meeting set for will Tuesday morning at Pizza Ranch has been canceled.??? P.E.O. CHAPTER MBMembers of P.E.O. Chapter MB will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Rose McMahon?s home.Mim Vorhies and Dot Louden will be co-hostesses.A short business meeting is planned, with extra social time.???

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.Monday ? pork cutlet, scalloped potatoes, corn, blushing pears.Tuesday ? chili with beans, sweet and sour coleslaw, cereal muffin, strawberry and banana.Wednesday ? liver and ...

Brian and Marilee Caves of Douds announce the engagement of their daughter Morgan to Bryce Von Ahsen, the son of Randy and Carole Von Ahsen of Williamsburg.The bride-to-be graduated from Van Buren Community High School in 2007 and Central College in 2011, with degrees in communication studies and business management. She is employed at University of Iowa as the strategic communications coordinator with the ...

PACKWOOD ? The Packwood Lions Club is planning a pancake, French toast and sausage breakfast from 7-9 a.m. Saturday at the Packwood Community Center.A freewill offering will be collected for the breakfast, which will include coffee and juice in addition to the sausage patties, French toast and pancakes.Proceeds from the breakfast will go to the Lions? programs.

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: corndog, baked beans, mixed vegetables, pineapple, milk; and in addition for high school students: fruit choice and tomatoes.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle and high schools: assorted cereals, egg and ...

Jefferson County Naturalist Therese Cummiskey has announced the Iowa mammals program and the basket-making class have been canceled.The classes had been set for Jan. 11 and Jan. 12 at at Jefferson County Park. Cummiskey said the classes will be rescheduled for later dates.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has capped its year-long campaign introducing several new hunting and fishing licenses.According to the DNR, Iowans purchased more than 68,000 of the new licenses during the last 12 months.As part of the promotion, the DNR hosted a weekly drawing of $50 gift cards donated by Iowa retailers; any Iowan purchasing a qualifying license was eligible for one of 37 gift cards ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resouces is issuing reminders that the remaining hunting seasons are starting to close.Iowa?s pheasant, late muzzleloader and archery deer, and archery fall turkey seasons close Jan. 10.The January antlerless deer season is Jan. 11-19 in select counties.Furbearer seasons, squirrel, quail, partridge and grouse remain open until Jan. 31.Rabbit season is open until Feb. 28.Crow ...

DES MOINES ? The 2014 session of the Resource Enhancement and Protection Congress will meet at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the House of Representatives chamber at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.The REAP Congress is made up of 90 delegates elected at the 18 regional REAP assemblies held across Iowa last fall.Delegates at the one-day congress will discuss REAP funding, if the current REAP allocation formula ...

All 2013 Iowa hunting and fishing licenses expire Jan. 10.All hunters and anglers will need a 2014 license to hunt or fish beginning Jan. 11.For information, visit the website www.iowadnr.gov.

Youth, youth group leaders and family members from SS Joseph and Cabrini Catholic Church sing Christmas carols during a recent visit to a Fairfield care facility. The group visited Parkview Care Center, SunnyBrook Living Care Center and SunnyBrook Assisted Living to visit with residents, sing Christmas carols and deliver gifts. The youth were accompanied by youth group leaders Kenny and Sandy Sobaski, religious ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world where everyone accepts each other?s differences and where enemies recognize that they are brothers.?We are all children of one heavenly father. We belong to the same human family and we share a common destiny,? Francis said, speaking from his studio window overlooking St. Peter?s Square.?Thi...