Fairfield News

Fairfield Middle School officials have announced the winners of its Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports program drawing for October.The fifth-grade winners were: Payton Cline, Anna Westphal, Abby Schaefer, Claire Epperson, Kordy Taylor, Blair Grunwald, Kevin Kretz, Samara McLain, Devon Duke, Trisha Westphal, Nellie Higdon, Alex Forrest, Brad Smithburg, Kyle Godwin and Jeremy Crile.Six-grade winners ...

Fairfield Middle School will host a Scholastic Book Fair Monday through Nov. 12 in room 102.Throughout the week, all FMS students will have the opportunity to visit the book fair during reading or GOAL class.The book fair also will be open each day before and after school from 8:10 a.m. to 4 p.m.The book fair will be open during parent/teacher conferences from 5-8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Nov. 7.Parents and ...

Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center has scheduled two blood drives Nov. 12.The first will be from 2-7 p.m. in the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.The second will be from 3:30-7:30 p.m. at Hope Lutheran Church in Germanville near Brighton.Donors who last gave blood on or before Sept. 17 are eligible to give again Nov. 12; a donor can give blood every eight weeks.To donate, call 800-452-1097 ...

The Fairfield Indoor Market will open Saturday in the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.The indoor winter market and craft show will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday through the end of April.The market will offer lots of produce, prepared food, jellies and jams, baked goods, meat, eggs, jewelry, artwork, knitted items, wooden crafts and much more.The Fairfield Farmers? Market held Wednesday and ...

Revival meetings planned Burkhalter Ministries will lead revival meetings Sunday through Wednesday for First Church of the Nazarene.The revival meetings will be at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday at the church; 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the church; and 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, preceded by the church?s weekly meal, featuring soups, at 6 p.m., at the Nazarene Family Center,Burkhalter Ministries includes Evangelist ...

OTTUMWA ? Indian Hills Community College?s visual and performing arts department will host a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Formal Lounge by the library on the Ottumwa campus.The event is open to the public and will feature writers from the college and the community.Anyone interested in reading their poetry needs to contact Joy Lyle at jlyle@indianhills.edu or 641-683-5111 ext. 1824.

The Northside Strippers Quilt Club is hosting a quilt lecture - trunk show at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.Designer Doris Duetmeyer of Dyersville will give the presentation.Admission is $3. Everyone is welcome to attend.Duetmeyer is a Midwest fiber artist and former elementary art educator working in the arts for more than 35 years. She is best known for her fused applique fabric ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY FARM BUREAU WOMENJefferson County Farm Bureau Women will be touring Big River Resources LLC, the ethanol plant in West Burlington, Tuesday.All Farm Bureau members are invited to tour with them.Those attending should meet at 8:30 a.m. in the municipal parking lot at Court Street and Washington Avenue to carpool rides.Each participant will be responsible for his or her own lunch.

OTTUMWA ? The Indian Hills Community College Jazz Band will present its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in St. John Auditorium on the college?s Ottumwa campus.The concert is free and open to the public.Under the direction of David Sharp, the ensemble will perform an array of musical styles including big band classics and contemporary jazz literature. The ensemble also will preview some of the tunes the band ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? The Southeast Iowa Band will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the renovated Chapel Hall at Iowa Wesleyan College.The concert is free to all students and IWC staff and has a suggested donation of $5 for others.The music will include several well known marches including: ?The Liberty Bell.? of Monty Python fame. by John Phillip Sousa; the Italian march, ?The Florentiner,? by Julius Fucik; ...

SunnyBrook Assisted Living is inviting trick-or-treaters to stop by from 5-7 p.m. Thursday.Trick-or-treat hours set by the Fairfield City Council are 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday.

AMES ? Harvest is winding down, another growing season is nearing its end ? and Practical Farmers of Iowa has set its 2013 fall farminar schedule.The free online seminar series is offered each autumn to help farmers learn about business and production issues that matter to them from the convenience of their homes.The interactive webinars, called farminars, are 7-8:30 p.m. each Tuesday beginning next week ...