Fairfield News

Maharishi School is offering two summer programs: Pirate/Ninja Summer Camp and Nature Explore Summer Day Camp.Middle school teachers Richard Incorvia and Barbara Hays, champions of project-based learning, will lead Pirate/Ninja Summer Camp, a summer program about rockets and programming video games and apps, for kids ages 12-15 9 a.m. to noon weekdays June 10-28.Students can sign up by the week or for the ...

BOB JONES UNIVERSITYGREENVILLE, S.C. ? Rebecca Bartle, a senior dramatic production major from Fairfield, was among approximately 1,500 Bob Jones University students who were named to the Spring 2013 Dean?s List.To qualify for the Dean?s List, students must earn a 3.0 grade point average.??? UNIVERSITY OF IOWAIOWA CITY ? Jordan Allsup, the son of Matt Allsup and Krista Allsup, both of Fairfield, recently ...

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: Chicken patty on a bun, potato wedges, black beans, pears, tomatoes and fruit ...

Registration is now open for the 2013-14 school year at Maharishi Preschool.Children ages 18 months to 5 years of age can attend two, three or five days a week. If a child turns 4 prior to Sept. 15, he or she will be in the prekindergarten class. If a child turns 18 months prior to Sept. 15, he or she will be in the younger preschool class, for children 18 months to 3 years of age.The teachers will offer three ...

The Fairfield Public Library has a new unique feature: a seed library. Rebecca Johnson, Fairfield Public Library director, said the seeds can be checked out with a library card, and returned after six months.According to Johnson, the library received $500 worth of 36 varieties of organic heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange, an organization that implements heirloom seed saving.The project starts with ...

Alice Kessel of Fairfield will celebrate her 85th birthday May 23.A card shower is being planned.Cards can be sent to Mrs. Kessel at 2237 Highway 34, Room 111, Fairfield 52556.

Bob and Mary Ann McReynolds of Richland will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary May 24.A card shower is being planned. Cards can be sent to the McReynolds at 30532 320th Ave., Richland 52585. No gifts are requestedBob McReynolds and Mary Ann Gillis were married May 24, 1953, at Richland Friends Church in Richland, with the Rev. Esther Figgins presiding.Mr. McReynolds retired in 1996 from the Jefferson ...

Guild Circle meeting MondayFirst United Methodist Church Guild Circle will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Basal Faith Parish to meetAll administrative board members and SPRC members from the Birmingham, Stockport and Libertyville United Methodist churches will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Stockport church.The Birmingham United Methodist Church, Stockport United Methodist Church and Faith United Methodist ...

BIRMINGHAMA pizza party is planned at 5 p.m. May 23 at the Birmingham Library for fourth- through sixth-grade children to sign up for a book club. The club will meet at 10 a.m. on Saturdays in July.???Children 3-years-old and older can sign up for the summer reading program at the Birmingham Library. The program will be held from 10-11 a.m. on Tuesdays in July. Registration is underway now so the library staff ...

A free ?lunch and learn? program, ?Good Bugs-Bad Bugs of the Garden,? is planned from noon to 1 p.m. May 23 at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office.According to ISU Extention horticulture program assistant Kim Keller, Moni Hayne will present the program.Hayne will explain which bugs are beneficial in gardens, such as the good bugs that eat or destroy the bad bugs, and she will explain which bugs should be ...

Blanche Elizabeth Nelson of Mount Pleasant and formerly of Fairfield will be celebrating her 102nd birthday from 2-3 p.m. May 22 at Park Place in Mount Pleasant.Mrs. Nelson was born May 22, 1911, in Lockridge, and has lived in Fairfield, Burlington and Mount Pleasant.

Officials at Fairfield High School this week released the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2012-13 academic year. SeniorsSeniors on the ?A? honor roll, and a * denoting the student earned straight ?A?s? are: Jacob Adam, Randy Andermann, Jonathan Anderson, Nathan Barker. Jacquelyn Bell, *Madison Brokken, Mason Carnahan, Jennifer Clements, *Kaitlyn Daugherty,...