Fairfield News

PACKWOOD ? Pekin Elementary School is looking for volunteers again this year to work with kindergarten through second graders who need a little extra attention.Volunteers in the Friends of Education program will read to a child or have a child read to them, play an educational game or even put a puzzle together. The looking and listening activities help develop or build language skills, which form a solid ...

OTTUMWA ? Milestones Area on Aging, in partnership with state of Iowa?s Senior Health Insurance Information Program, will have a ?Welcome to Medicare? seminar. Sept. 19 on Indian Hills Community College campus in Ottumwa.The free seminar, in partnership with IHCC Community Rural Health, requires a reservation by Thursday. Call Milestones at 800-642-6522 or email jnydle@milestonesaaa.org. For more information, ...

The Fairfield High School is seeking donations of athletic shorts and tennis shoes for use by FHS physical education students.Donations of gently used men?s and women?s shorts of all sizes are needed. Men?s tennis shoes size 10 ½ and larger are especially needed.Having PE clothes available to loan to students has almost eliminated PE failures for students who previously did not dress out for class. Donations of ...

Dennis and Terri Delker of Fairfield announce the engagement of their daughter Jessica Lynn Delker to Scott Michael Barron, son of Michael and Rhonda Barron of Vinton.The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Fairfield High School and a 2009 graduate of Mercy/St. Luke?s School of Radiologic Technology. She is employed as a CT technologist at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids.The groom-elect is a 2003 graduate of ...

Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra will kick off its 63rd season with fabulous music and a nod to 1920s Feathers and Fanfare. Under the baton of Robert McConnell, the orchestra will delight audiences with the fabulous music of George Gershwin, John Williams, Henry Mancini, Hoagy Carmichael and much more. Concerts will be held 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Bridge View Center in Ottumwa and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Memorial ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at all schools: assorted cereals, assorted cereal bars or Nutri-Grain Bars, orange juice, milk. Lunch: pig in a blanket, baked beans, fresh orange, milk; and in addition for high school students: tomatoes and fruit choice.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle school and high school: assorted cereals, ...

Francis and Susan Thicke, owners and operaters of Radiance Dairy near Fairfield, invite farmers and the public to learn about their quest to become more energy independent at a free Practical Farmers of Iowa field day from 2-5 p.m. Sept. 14.The Thickes have installed a suite of renewable energy systems to help them lower their farm energy costs.During ?Harvesting Energy: Wind and Solar Power,? attendees will ...

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 ? bistro chicken breast, scalloped potatoes, green beans, peach strawberry banana medley, ice cream cup.Tuesday ? roast beef, baked potato half with sour cream, creamed ...

Fairfield Elks Lodge 1192 members Debbi Davis, Doug Bagby and Ryan Kurka continued the Elks Flag Day Ceremony tradition with Jefferson County Veterans Affairs Director Ray Chambers and local Boy Scouts June 14 at the Veterans? Memorial on the courthouse lawn. Participating Boy Scouts were: Christopher Kyle, James Kyle, Brandon Francisco, Austin Francisco, Ronan Malloy, Finnegan Malloy, Austin Shelby, Caleb ...

LOCKRIDGE ? First Augustana Lutheran Church will have a 10 a.m. service Sunday at the historic New Sweden Chapel.Sunday is ?Be a Blessing Sunday.?Following the service, a potluck lunch at the parsonage and a community service project are planned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of becoming the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.For the service project, volunteers will be cleaning the flowerbeds at the ...

First Lutheran honoring ELCA anniversaryFirst Lutheran Church will be honoring the 25th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with a special service and service project Sunday.A worship service will be held at 9 a.m. Sunday at Jefferson County Park.Following worship, a service project and a potluck meal are planned at the park. Guest speaker at FoursquareJeanne Kuckelman, founder and ...

PACKWOOD ? Representatives of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety will teach the fundamentals of harvest safety to Pekin students Friday.Kindergarten through 12th-grade students at Pekin Community School District will have the opportunity to learn about safe handling of farm equipment throughout the day.An evening session at the school is free and open to the public, and offers an opportunity ...