Fairfield News

Fairfield Area Community Theatre?s winter production ?Belles? by Mark Dunn is a story of sisterhood and family that brings both laughter and tears to the audience according to directorial staff Scott Slechta, John Grunwald and Tim Lantz.?Belles? is a vivid dramatic comedy in two acts and 45 phone calls.Originally from Memphis, the six Walker sisters now live in various parts of the U.S. When Mama lands in the ...

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: corn dog, baked beans, mixed vegetables, pineapple tidbits, fruit choice for 9-12 ...

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 ? Salisbury steak with gravy, oven-browned potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches and orange juice.Tuesday ? beef and bean vegetable soup, saltine crackers, Orange Surprise ...

DES MOINES ? USDA?s Natural Resources Conservation Service is offering financial assistance to Iowa agricultural producers for installing conservation practices reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Applications must be submitted by Thursday to be eligible for priority funding. A second application cutoff date has been set for March 15.Through the Conservation Innovation Grant ? Greenhouse Gas project, NRCS will ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday for its Valentine party at the Birmingham Lions building.The Rebekah Circle of the Methodist church will cater the meal. Stanley Knipfer and Jim Settles will furnish the entertainment.Call reservations to Ann Boley at 319-498-4369.???The Over 50 and Fabulous Red Hat Ladies of Birmingham will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Village Café in ...

Parents and guardians considering the use of the open enrollment option to enroll their children in another public school district in Iowa should be aware of the following dates:? Sept. 1, 2014: Is the deadline for open enrollment requests for students entering kindergarten for the 2013-14 school year.? March 1, 2013: Will be the last date for regular open enrollment requests for the 2013-14 school year. ?Good ...

The Lord?s Cupboard of Jefferson County, the area?s emergency food pantry, is expanding its list of substitute workers.The organization is looking for substitutes who can fill in on afternoons when regularly scheduled volunteers are absent.Specifically, The Lord?s Cupboard is seeking someone who can work from 12:55 to 4 p.m. the last three Mondays of February: Monday, Feb. 18 and Feb. 25, plus one day ahead to ...

Fairfield Community School District has scheduled parent-teacher conferences Tuesday and Feb. 14. Fairfield High School conferences will be 4-7:30 p.m. both days. Parents can stop in the office to pick up their student?s report cards, then visit with teachers in their classrooms.Fairfield Middle School conferences will be 5-8:30 p.m. both days.The fifth-grade teachers will be in their classrooms on the second ...

A bluegrass jam session is set from 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.All pickers, singers and spectators are welcome. Accoustic instruments are welcome.Snacks and coffee will be available.Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help pay for expenses.

OTTUMWA ? Southeast Iowans will be able to experience opera Saturday when OPERA Iowa?s educational touring troupe visits Indian Hills Community College.Featuring colorful scenery and costumes, theatrical lighting and musical accompaniment, OPERA Iowa will present a two-hour English version of Gaetano Donizetti?s ?The Elixir of Love? at 7:30 p.m. in St. John Auditorium on the IHCC Ottumwa campus.The performance, ...

DRAKE UNIVERSITYDES MOINES ? The following local residents achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or above and were named to the Drake University Dean?s List for the fall 2012 semester:Jonathan Edgeton of Fairfield and Krystin Bradshaw of Hedrick.??? CENTRAL COLLEGEPELLA ? The following students were named to the fall 2012 Central College Dean?s List:Mitchell Bloomquist of Batavia, an athletic training ...

Amber Nightingale will be teaching a Hatha-style yoga class with a Embodied twist from 9:30-10:45 a.m. Thursday and Saturday in Morning Star Studio?s Sunset Room.Nightingale is leaving Fairfield and these are the last classes offered before her departure. The cost is $11.Nightingale studied yoga with Baba Hari Dass and is a certified 200-hour yoga instructor. She has more than 10 years of experience as a yoga ...