Fairfield News

HEDRICK ? Back by popular demand is the third annual Bras for a Cause event.The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a soup supper and continue with an auction at 6 p.m. March 30 at the Carl Craft Civic Center in Hedrick.The event features modeling by Hedrick volunteer firemen and prizes for best-decorated bras including: sports theme, business theme, breast cancer awareness and best over-all.The soup supper is ...

OTTUMWA ? Dancers in Company, the University of Iowa Dance Department?s touring repertory company, will kick off its 2013 touring season at Indian Hills Community College with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in St. John Auditorium.Admission is free with funding being provided by the University of Iowa Arts Share program.The performance will feature the restaging of ?Shortcut to My Friend? by international ...

The United Methodist Cooperative Ministries of Van Buren County is presenting the 42nd annual living dramatization of Leonardo DaVinci?s ?The Last Supper.?The hour-long drama, including music and worship, by Ernest K. Emurian will be presented beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Lutheran Church in Fairfield; 7:30 p.m. Monday at Farmington Methodist Church in Farmington; and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at West Point ...

Fairfield Rotary Club treasurer Judith Cox, left, presents a $1,500 check to Sally Farrier from the Ottumwa Crisis Center and Women?s Shelter Friday. For several years, the Rotary Club of Fairfield has conducted a Christmas fundraiser for both the crisis center and women?s shelter and The Lord?s Cupboard. Cox spearheaded the fundraiser with the help of many Rotarians. In 2012, the Rotary Club received a $2,000 ...

AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITYAbbe Ball of Houston, Texas, has received her Master of Arts in psychology, magna cum laude, from the American Military University after obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Penn State University.Ball is a 2001 graduate of Harmony High School. She enlisted in the U.S. Navy following 9/11, and after four years and three tours to the Persian Gulf, transferred to the U.S. ...

The Fairfield Little League Operation Facelift will continue with work on the dugouts Saturday afternoon.Plans are to fill the dugouts, which were taken out last weekend, and potentially, hang sponsor signs.Volunteers are needed to start work at noon.

Each school month, the Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the Fairfield Middle School Students of the Month award to acknowledge positive contributions of students at school.These positive contributions range from assisting teachers and peers in classroom activities to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom.The Students of the Month certificates are awarded after a nomination and ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? The film ?2.5 Gallons? will premier at 6 p.m. Friday at the Main Street Cinemas in Mount Pleasant.The short documentary, produced by the Iowa United Nations Association, showcases the experiences of Iowa Wesleyan College students who survived on limited water for five days. The project was part of the Positive Psychology class taught by Cyndi Walljasper.The premiere is free and open to the ...

Young Cancer Exterminators Hunter and James Bechtel are once again enlisting the assistance of their Fairfield Middle School classmates and staff to help raise money for the Jefferson County Relay for Life by making a minimum donation of $1 to the American Cancer Society.The middle school students and staff will be participating in Hat Day Friday to show their support of the fight against cancer.Students and ...

Maharishi School senior Laser Nite is a National Merit Scholar finalist.Nite?s goal is to ?become so balanced and enlightened that my life is a blissful flow of creativity, productivity, and love. I also plan to socially engineer a site capable of connecting communities around the globe.? Nite plans to use his math and language skills to benefit society.The National Merit Society mission is to promote a wider ...

CLOVER KIDSJefferson County Fairfield 4-H Clover Kids met Thursday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.Twenty-six members made Find It games using plastic water bottles, adding ground-up corncobs and 32 miniature items. It will be a fun game to play while on car rides.The group made bead necklaces or bracelets, decorated foam eggs, played a ping-pong skill toss game and did a fun quiz group ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Over 50 and Fabulous Red Hat Ladies met for lunch recently at the Birmingham Lions Building in Birmingham.Fifteen members were present, along with two guests, Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Mount Pleasant, who presented a musical program.?Happy Birthday? was sung for those with March birthdays.Linda Stine won the door prize. Donna Pratt and JoAnn Shoemaker were the hostesses.???The Birmingham Lions?s ...