Fairfield News

OTTUMWA ? Outdoor Women?s Adventures: Fish, Bows and Flies! is planned from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 15 at Pioneer Ridge Nature Area near Ottumwa.Outdoor Women?s Adventures is a joint program between the Wapello and Jefferson county conservation boards dedicated to getting women outdoors in a comfortable and encouraging environment. The events are for women ages 16 and older with or without experience in the ...

The Presbyterian ladies will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.Roll call will be a Bible verse about faith. Devotions and a program will be hosted by Janet Meek. A thanks offering will be taken.The Methodist church board meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church.The Presbyterian ladies will be serving the Historical Supper at 6 p.m. Oct. 15 at the church.

MONDAYPolishville Bingo, Polishville Community Center, food available, 4:30 p.m.; bingo, 5:45 p.m.Jefferson County Cattlemen Association, Pizza Ranch, 7 p.m. Call Adam Ledger at 919-0898 or Zoe Moritz at 989-413-9495.Birmingham Lions Club, Birmingham Lions Building, 7 p.m.Little Tumblers, first of five classes, Roosevelt Community Recreation Center. Details and registration: 472-6159 or www.fairieldparksandrec...

The Birmingham Lions Club will host a Mississippi Regional Blood Center blood drive from 2:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lions Club building.Walk-in donors are welcome; for appointments, call Harry Anderson at 319-498-4201.Donors who last gave blood on or before July 19 are eligible to participate again Thursday.A blood drive is set from 2-6:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield.Walk-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: Sloppy Joe on bun, golden corn, fresh grapes, milk.Tuesday ? breakfast at the ...

First Augustana Lutheran Church in Lockridge is holding Sunday service at the New Sweden Chapel, located northwest of Lockridge, at 10 a.m. this week.The New Sweden Chapel, listed with the National Historical Society, closed in 1948 and First Augustana Lutheran of Lockridge was appointed as caretakers and overseers. Services are held at the chapel twice a year ? on the first Sunday in June and the second Sunday ...

Cub Scouts will be holding a new scout signup at 7 p.m. Thursday at Washington Elementary School.Parents should come with their first- to fifth-grade son to hear information about joining Cub Scouts and the activities available in scouting.Leaders from local Cub Scout Pack 67 will be at Washington school to answer questions and help fill out applications and collect fees.Contact Sara Folsom of Boys Scouts of ...

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 ? glazed ham ball, scalloped potatoes, black bean corn tomato salad, muffin, peach-strawberry-banana medley.Tuesday ? beef luncheon steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, ...

CHAPTER MB, P.E.O.Members of Chapter MB, P.E.O. will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Josie Hannes Design.???WE CAREWe Care, a Fairfield cancer support group, will resume meeting once a month at a new day and time: the second Thursday evening of the month.The next meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Jefferson County Health Center?s conference room. It will be a time for sharing, caring and supporting each ...

Basal Faith Parish holds Sunday worship service at 8:15 a.m. in Libertyville; 9:45 a.m. in Birmingham with choir practice following, and 11 a.m. in Stockport.Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. in Libertyville and 10:45 a.m. in Birmingham.Choir practice for Stockport is held on Wednesday nights.Other calendar events for the week of Sunday through Sept. 15 include, Faith United Methodist Church AD board meeting at ...

OLLIE ? Prairie View United Methodist Church holds Sunday worship at 9 a.m., followed by fellowship at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 10:30 a.m.Bible study is 9 a.m. Tuesday.United Methodist Women will meet at 5:30 p.m. and Christian education committee meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday.Tojans 4-H will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Packwood.

My dad used to come home and say to my stepmother, ?Sherry, pull out some extra meat. We?re having a barbeque.?That meant company.Then he would start directing the four of us girls while he made homemade barbeque sauce.He would have all of us running to prepare for a big meal while my stepmother kept asking, ?Walter, are you sure there will be enough??Jesus? followers once asked him the same question.Jesus ...