Wotherspoon retiringThe Rev. James Wotherspoon, pastor of First Baptist Church, is retiring.Sunday will be Wotherspoon?s final Sunday worship service.A farewell dinner and program for Wotherspoon and his wife Betsie, is planned at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the church. Chilcotes speaking SundayThe Reverends Bill and Ann Chilcote will be guest speakers at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Prophetic Kingdom Gathering at the ...
Fairfield Community School District will not serve breakfast or lunch during the coming week; the district?s winter break continues through Jan. 3.Information about the breakfast and lunch program can be found on the district?s website at www.fairfieldsfuture.org, where parents can deposit funds into and monitor their student?s lunch account.
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 ? Salisbury steak with gravy, oven-browned potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches, orange juice.Tuesday ? closed for New Year?s Eve.Wednesday ? closed for New Year?s ...
AMES ? Iowa farmers are increasingly concerned about herbicide-resistant weeds and are changing their weed management practices to deal with the issue, according to the 2013 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll.?In this year?s poll, we directed herbicide resistance questions to farmers who planted corn, soybeans or other row crops in 2012,? said J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., a sociologist with Iowa State University Extension ...
OTTUMWA ? Tickets are available for the eighth annual eight-course gourmet dinner to benefit students in Indian Hills Community College?s culinary arts program. The dinner event will be held Jan. 24 in the Indian Hills dining room.Fatima Perez, Spain?s top mycologist and owner of Restaurant Fatima in the province of Castilla y Leon, will be returning to Indian Hills for the second consecutive year to work with ...
BIRMINGHAMMany awards were presented during the Birmingham Lions Club Christmas party Dec. 9.Monarch chevrons were presented to: Dean Hall, 45 years; Larry Smith, 15 years; Kriss Anderson, 15 years; Randy Householder, 10 years; and Ann Boley, 10 years.Attendance chevrons were awarded to: Dean Hall, 44; Gene Stine, 42; Harry Anderson, 38; Carroll Unkrich, 37; Van Meek, 31; George Manning, 31; Harold Dickinson, ...
AUGUSTANA COLLEGEROCK ISLAND, Ill. ? Shana Silverman from Fairfield was among the 839 students named to the dean?s list at Augustana College for the 2013 fall term.Students who have earned the academic honor maintained a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a four-point scale for courses taken during the term.Silverman is a senior at Augustana majoring in elementary education.
Personal trainer Kristy Clark will be leading both a four-week beginner weight-loss challenge and a four-week intermediate weight-loss challenge during January at the Roosevelt Community Recreation Center and Roosevelt Aquatic Center.?This is just what you need to get 2014 off to a health start,? said Clark.Clark explained the beginner weight-loss challenge is for the beginning exerciser. It will be low impact ...
STOCKPORTGarbage pick-up days for Stockport will be Friday due to Christmas and Jan. 3 due to New Year?s Day.???The Stockport Public Library will be open from 9 am. to noon Thursday, from 3-6 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 2.? Beverly Runyon, Ledger correspondent
The Fairfield Park and Recreation Department is planning both a boys? and a girls? Trojan Winter Blast basketball camp Friday and Dec. 30 in the Fairfield High School gymnasium.The boys? camp is for boys entering third- through eighth-grades. It will be held 9-11 a.m. The director will be FHS varsity basketball coach Tyler Miklo. Assistants will be junior varsity coach Glenn Perkins and freshman coach Jordan ...
Commercial manure applicators should plan to attend the Commercial Manure Applicator training program scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 7 at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office.Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will conduct the required three-hour training workshop.The workshop is free, but commercial applicators must register by ...
Les and Kay Whitaker of Pleasant Plain will be celebrating 50 years of marriage with an open house from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at the Brighton Community Building in Brighton.They were married Jan. 25, 1964, at the Church of God in Brighton. Their daughter Patty Harrison, son-in-law Kirk and grandson live in Colorado. Their son Rob Whitaker, daughter-in-law Shannon, and three grandchildren live in Oregon.Les and Kay ...
AMES ? The Eco Family Virtual Conference from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, an opportunity for families to improve the environment, reduce their carbon footprint and create community as they participate in a do-as-you-learn format, begins Jan. 2.Conference materials connect families and encourage them to make conscious decisions about the environment.Enrolled families will have access to ...
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 ? beef meatball, gravy, baby red potatoes, green bean casserole, banana orange cup.Tuesday ? closed for Christmas.Wednesday ? closed for Christmas.Thursday ? potato-crusted ...
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