Fairfield News

CLARKThe Milo and Birdie Morris Clark reunion was held Sept. 16 at the family farm north of Stockport.Those attending were: Gene and Karen Crawford, Sean and Nikki Crawford and Hayden of Fairfield; Jill Silvers and Aaron and Ian of Ollie; Mart Campbell, Alison Campbell and Chris Mundt of Newhall; T.C. and Mallory Dailey, Bradley and Keri Campbell and Colin and Kenley of Cedar Rapids; Tony Clark and Nan Hempel ...

SIGOURNEY ? The annual Lancaster School open house, hosted by Lancaster Heritage, is set from 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the school 5 miles southeast of Sigourney on Highway V5G.The 2 p.m. program will feature Alice Hoyt Veen, a dedicated family historian for 30 years. Her presentation will be ?Reconstructing Your School Life,? and her remarks will emphasize how a person?s school years are an important part of who he or ...

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 and cereal bars, orange juice and milk; breakfast at the elementary schools: assorted cereals, cereal bar or Nutri-Grain bar; orange juice and milk. Lunch: hamburger on bun, romaine lettuce and tomato, sweet potato fries, fruit cocktail, ...

Clockwise from lower left, Jonah Cooper, Ethan Waugh Missy Cooper, Marilyn McGuire, Taylor Clemons, Nickel Iseman and Larry Hedger were among the 175 volunteers of all ages from four Fairfield churches measuring, filling bags, weighing, sealing bags, packing boxes, sealing boxes and stacking boxes along the wall Sunday. Word of Life Lutheran, Fairfield Friends, First Presbyterian and First Christian (Disciples of ...

KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren Community School District will celebrate its homecoming week beginning Monday.The high school has planned a special theme for each day next week.The theme for Monday will be Twin Day.Tuesday?s theme will be Outlaw/Camo Day.Wednesday?s theme will be Formal/Dress Up Day, which coincides with school pictures being taken.Thursday?s theme is Dress Like Someone Famous. A pep assembly, ...

KRUU 100.1 FM, Fairfield?s people-powered solar radio station, presents a weekend of community fun Saturday and Sunday, commemorating three milestones: KRUU?s sixth year broadcasting in Jefferson County; its third anniversary as the Midwest?s only solar-powered radio station; and its third annual Listener Appreciation Week.From 1-5 p.m. Saturday, the community is invited to a free open house at KRUU to tour the ...

Abby Schaefer, left, hands bags to Bev Rebling who weighs them and adds rice if necessary to attain the proper weight. Volunteers came together Sunday to pack meals for Kids Against Hunger.

WEST DES MOINES ? Iowa farmers, who are in the fields early this year because of an oppressive drought, are seeing yields ?all over the board? as they bring in the 2012 crop, say Iowa Farm Bureau Federation information aggregators, agronomists and research experts.?Every year, we work with Iowa farmers in every corner of the state who volunteer to give us crop updates. It?s been tough this year. We hear about ...

Congregate meals are served at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday at Fairfield Senior Citizen Center and at noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Lockridge senior center.Monday ? hamburger, wheat hamburger bun, oven-brown potato, baked beans, sliced strawberries, oatmeal raisin cookie.Tuesday ? liver and onions, parsley butter potato, gravy, mixed vegetables, banana bran muffin, ice cream cup.Wednesday ? ...

SOLITAIRESSolitaires will have dinner at Lori Anne?s Sunday in Richland.Members will meet to pool rides from the First National Bank in Fairfield parking lot at noon.???

AMES ? Practical Farmers of Iowa encourages farmers to sign up for cover crop funds newly authorized by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship as an eligible practice under Iowa?s cost share program.The emergency rule change, announced last month by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, allows cost sharing assistance of $25 per acre for planting a cover crop. Farmers interested in accessing...

Martha Wearin Rasmussen and her husband Bob of Fairfield, center, receive an Iowa Heritage Farm certificate and farm marker during the Iowa State Fair from Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, right, and Iowa Farm Bureau Federation President Craig Hill. The awards were in recognition of Martha Rasmussen?s farms in Mills County being owned by her family since 1854. To qualify, a family must have owned at ...