The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week.Meals are at 11:30 a.m.Monday ? beef meatballs, gravy, baby red potatoes, green beans, banana orange cup.Tuesday ? ham and beans, Tomato Spoon Salad, cornbread muffin, cottage cheese, pineapple, orange juice.Wednesday ? baked chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, creamed spinach, apricot halves.Thursday ? baked fish, baked ...
OTTUMWA ? The Twin Galaxies Video Game Festival, set for today through Sunday in Ottumwa, kicks off at 6 p.m. with a free public rally at Bridge View Center auditorium.The rally will include updates on plans to develop an International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottumwa, and the donations to the collection of memorabilia. Larry Larson of Fairfield will be donating a 1990 Atari game ?Off the Wall.?For ...
The Fairfield Community School District has listed its menu for the coming week.Monday ? turkey deli and cheese on bun, carrots, peaches, pudding, milk.Tuesday ? burrito with salsa, corn, rosy applesauce, Jell-O, milk.Wednesday ? fish patty on bun, cheesy mixed vegetables, pineapple rings, cookie, milk.Thursday ? chicken nuggets, frosted cinnamon roll, green beans, strawberries, milk.Nov. 18 ? ...
PACKWOOD ? Pekin Middle School officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the first quarter of the 2011-12 academic year.The eighth grade, straight A honor roll includes: Nikole Arendt, Elizabeth Atwood, Emily Bemis, Courtney Comstock, Bethanne Cooksey, Austin Fariss, Madison Lathrop, Payton Lock, Taylor Lock, Ashley Lucas, Sloan Reighard, Tessa Winn and Gwynne ...
ELDON ? The American Gothic House Center received funding from Humanities Iowa to host a free lecture of ?Looking Closer at Grant Wood: What Did He Do, and How Did He Do It?? by Roy Behrens at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Eldon Library Hall. The attention given to Wood?s most famous painting, ?American Gothic,? often prevents people from focusing on his other accomplishments. How was he trained? What influenced him? ...
A bluegrass jam session is set from 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.Pickers, singers and spectators are invited to attend.Admission is free, but donations are welcome.Snacks and coffee will be available.
The following rural churches have made changes to their calendars for Sunday through Nov. 19.Any rural church that would like to have its calendar for the week of Nov. 20-26 printed in The Ledger Nov. 17 should provide information to the newsroom by noon Wednesday.Rural churches must update calendars weekly or monthly or the listing will not be printed. Updates can be emailed to lifestyles@ffledger.com, ...
WEST DES MOINES ? Livestock production continues to provide important support to Iowa?s economy.According to the recently released Iowa Agricultural Statistics booklet, Iowa?s cattle, hog and sheep producers? receipts grew by 20 percent last year, growing to $8.32 billion.Information in the 136-page book is compiled by the National Agricultural Statistics Service?s Iowa Field Office, a division of the U.S. ...
Fairfield High School officials recently released the names of students who earned recognition on the honor roll for the first quarter of the 2011-12 school year.Students on the ?A? Honor Roll, with * denoting straight A?s, are: Seniors ? Tori Ogden, *Megan Palmer, *Thomas Price, *Alex Rodgers, Taylor Silvers, *Darien Sloat, Alina Stallone, Cheyenne Tedrow, *Haven Tichy, Serena Ward, Miranda Williams, Manda ...
DES MOINES ? The Iowa Crops and Weather report has been released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. ?Harvest is nearly complete and most farmers are now focused on fall tillage, fertilizer applications and construction of conservation practices,? said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey.Fall tillage and fertilizer applications continue as harvest is nearly complete. Some farmers ...
Jefferson County will offer the Commercial Ag Weed, Insect and Plant Disease Management Continuing Instructional Course for commercial pesticide applicators Nov. 16.The program will be shown at locations across Iowa through the Iowa State University Extension Pest Management and the Environment program.The local attendance site is the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office in Fairfield on the fairgrounds.R...
To Elizabeth and Travis Dimmitt of Maryville, Mo., a boy, Charles Laine, 7 pounds, 10 ounces, born Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, Mo.He has one sister, Mattie, 2.Local grandparents are Peggy and Charlie Lee of Birmingham and Lee and Thelma Dimmitt of Fairfield.Great-grandparents are Leonard and Shirley Crafton of Birmingham.
MOUNT PLEASANT ? Boot Camp for New Dads is planned from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the lower-level meeting room of the Henry County ISU Extension Office in Mount Pleasant.Boot Camp for New Dads, sponsored by Healthy Henry County Communities, is a community education program designed to enable new fathers to ?hit the ground crawling? when their baby arrives and head in the right direction in forming a new ...
MOUNT PLEASANT ? The Southeast Iowa Band, under the direction of Robert McConnell, will present its fall concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel Auditorium in Mount Pleasant.The program will include a variety of musical selections, including highlights from the musical ?Gigi,? ?Dance Rhythms for Band,? ?America? from ?West Side Story,? ?La Fiesta Mexicana? and the theme from ?Schindler?s ...
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