Fairfield News

Noah?s Ark Animal Foundation is sponsoring a Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center blood drive June 10 in honor of Cody Cohen.Cohen, a 2013 Fairfield High School graduate, was diagnosed in December with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a rare blood cancer, and prescribed a bone marrow transplant as treatment.In March, Cohen?s disease had progressed from MDS into acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), said Dawn Safrit, ...

OTTUMWA ? The Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra will culminate its 26th anniversary season of concerts in Ottumwa with a free outdoor concert, Music-on-the-Green, at 7 p.m. Sunday on the Marge Dodd Stage at Indian Hills Community College.Folks can bring lawn chairs and picnic baskets. The concert will be under the direction of David Sharp, a professor of instrumental music at Indian Hills Community College. Jim ...

VFW LADIES AUXILIARYThe Ladies Auxiliary to Dimmitt-Vorhies Post 2271 met May 13 at the post home, with 11 members present.Installation of officers was held. Deb Rowe was the installing officer.The audit was read and approved.Memorial Day plans were discussed.Joyce Hostetter was given a life membership in the National Home for Children.Cake was served to honor Mother?s Day.The next meeting will be held ...

Fairfield Middle School officials have announced the winners of the school?s Positive Behavior Supports System drawing for May.With the Positive Behavior Supports System, FMS students are rewarded for positive behavior by staff by being given a ticket for when they are ?caught? doing something good.Once a month, the school has a drawing and gives out prizes to reward students for their positive behavior. For ...

BIRMINGHAM ? The Birmingham Homecoming is set June 7-9 in City Park.The Birmingham Lions Club will kick off the annual festivities with a tenderloin supper at 5 p.m. June 7. The prince and princess contest and a cakewalk are planned that evening.June 8 will begin with a biscuits and gravy breakfast served by the Lions at 7 a.m. in the shelter house. A lunch will be served by Birmingham United Methodist Church ...

Habitat for Humanity has teamed up with Fairfield?s Hometown Rewards program to use the construction of a Habitat for Humanity home as a model in simple, affordable, energy efficient construction. On-site workshops for residents, contractors, students and landscape architects will highlight appropriate uses of technology and techniques that can be replicated in Iowa. Alliant Energy will film various parts of the ...

OTTUMWA ? Indian Hills Community College will hold an informational workshop 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday in Room B of the Community Education Center at the IHCC North Campus at the Ottumwa Airport to provide details on a new national program to train adults age 50 or older for new jobs in health care, education and social services.The ETC Plus 50 initiative will combine current programs and classes offered by the ...

Fairfield High School student Trent Taglauer joined other top students from across Iowa last month to explore scientific, agricultural and global career opportunities at the World Food Prize Iowa Youth Institute at Iowa State University.The day was filled with interactive workshops. Students, who had all researched and written a five-page paper on a global food security topic, presented their innovative solutions...

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 ? loose-meat burger, wheat hamburger bun, oven-roasted baby potatoes, butter beans, oranges and pineapple.Tuesday ? Swedish meatballs, noodles, spinach, Mandarin oranges, ...

First Presbyterian summer hours begin SundayFirst Presbyterian Church will begin its summer hours Sunday.Worship will be at 9:30 a.m. Sundays, and the church office will be closed on Fridays.The church will have worship with Communion at 9:30 a.m. June 9. The service will include special music by the Chamber Singers of Southeast Iowa, directed by Elaine Reding. No service June 9 at First United MethodistFirs...

LOCKRIDGE ? First Augustana Lutheran Church in Lockridge will have worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Historic New Sweden Chapel, northwest of Lockridge.The Rev. Gloria Friedrich, who serves First Augustana Lutheran, will conduct the Communion service.The New Sweden Chapel, listed with the National Historical Society, closed in 1948 and First Augustana Lutheran of Lockridge was appointed as caretakers and ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its breakfast and lunch menu for the coming week.Monday ? breakfast at the middle school and high school: assorted cereals, assorted cereal bars, orange juice and milk; breakfast at the elementary schools: assorted cereals, cereal bar or Nutri-Grain Bar; orange juice and milk. Lunch: cook?s choice.Tuesday ? breakfast at the middle school and high school: assorted ...