Fairfield News

Fairfield High School student Marina McKay?s solo mime ?The Martyr Joan? was selected for the Critic?s Choice Award at the Iowa High School Speech Association?s All-State Festival Feb. 18 at the Iowa State Center in Ames.The Critic?s Choice Award is the highest honor for an IHSSA performance in the state, and a first for FHS in the area of solo mime.Approximately 24,000 students started in several categories of ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Birmingham Library Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the library.???The Rebekah Circle of the Birmingham United Methodist Church will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Pat Shaw will be the hostess.???The Birmingham Lions Club is planning a tenderloin supper for March 17.???The recent fish and chicken fry fundraising supper hosted by the Birmingham Homecoming Committee was well ...

Several Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center blood drives are scheduled in the area during March.First United Methodist Church will host a blood drive from 2-6:30 p.m. Monday in the church?s downstairs dining room. Donors who last gave blood on or before Jan. 9 are eligible to give again. Walk-in donors are welcome, but those who prefer to set an appointment can call Doris Eklund at 472-4303.Two blood ...

FAIRFIELD WOMEN?S CLUB GARDEN DEPARTMENTMembers of the Fairfield Women?s Club Garden Department will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday at the McElhinny House.Joanne Wilson, Barbara Smith and Deb Johnson will serve as hostesses. A short business meeting will follow the program.Any area women interested can phone Donna Clark at 472-4248.

FHS CLASS OF 1956Members of the Fairfield High School Class of 1956 will meet at 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store.The group meets for breakfast the first Thursday of every month.???FHS CLASS OF 1959The Fairfield High School Class of 1959 Coffee Club will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday at Yummy?s.Everyone is welcome to attend.The group meets the first Thursday of every month.???FHS ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? Duo-pianists Heidi Riepe and Joel Brown of Mount Pleasant will present a concert of music for two pianos at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in room 300 in Old Main on the campus of Iowa Wesleyan CollegeThe program will begin with Jesu, Joy of Man?s Desiring, Sicilienne and the Little Fugue in g minor, all transcriptions for two pianos of original works by J. S. Bach. Chopin?s Rondo in C major ...

SOLITAIRESMembers of Solitaries will meet for lunch at noon Sunday at Pizza Ranch.

A general Conservation Reserve Program sign up begins March 12 and runs through April 6.To provide information on this sign up, meetings on the general CRP have been scheduled in both Jefferson and Van Buren counties.The meeting in Van Buren County is set for 6:30 p.m. March 6 at the Roberts Memorial Building in Keosauqua, announced Bev Nelson, county executive director for the Van Buren County Farm Service ...

Jon and Nancy Hesseltine of Fairfield announce the engagement of their daughter Julie Hesseltine to Dan Krull, son of Mark and Shelda Krull of Buffalo Center.The bride-elect is a 2004 Fairfield High School graduate and a 2008 Buena Vista University graduate. She is a second-grade teacher at New Christian School in Newton and lives in Pella.The groom-elect is a 2005 graduate of West Hancock High School and a ...

A Jefferson County Relay for Life gathering for committee members, team captains, sponsors and those interested in becoming involved is set for 5:30 p.m. March 1 at the Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store Club Room.Organizer Kortney Heald explained this is not the regular monthly meeting, but a gathering of food, sharing ideas and fun.?It was an impromptu event, but we felt it was necessary,? she said.The ...

Vegetables, fruits, herbs and even flowers that enhance the growth, taste and productivity of each other is an enticing concept, isn?t it? Root secretions and odors share the honors in the attraction and companionship game between plants.Luckily, we don?t need to dig and sniff roots in order to determine if a carrot is best planted next to a cucumber. Gardeners for ages have been documenting which plants seem to ...

BIRMINGHAMAustin Tedrow of Libertyville was a new blood donor at the Mississippi Valley Regional blood drive Feb. 2 at the Birmingham Lions Building.A total of 18 units of blood was collected.The next blood drive will be March 29.???The Birmingham Lions Club will have a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Lions? building.The February committee is Hugh Shaw and Stanley Knipfer.???The Red Hat Ladies met ...