Congregate Meals

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 ? chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cheese sauce, strawberry and banana chocolate chip bar.

Tuesday ? baked ham, baked potato, sour cream, steamed cabbage, rosy applesauce.

Wednesday ? potato chowder, saltine crackers, hamburger, whole-wheat bun, lettuce, tomato and onion slices, Ambrosia Salad, sweet potato custard.

Thursday ? meat loaf, scalloped potatoes, slices carrots, red fruited gelatin, orange juice.

Dec. 21 ? roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, spinach with vinegar, cinnamon apples.

Milk, whole-wheat and whole-grain bread/muffins, and margarine are offered with all meals. The menu provides a general balanced diet that meets the RDA?s/RIA?s for adults.

Meals are offered on a contribution basis for persons 60 years of age and older and their spouses of any age. Full cost of meals is: congregate, $5.87; carryout, $6.35; home delivered, $7.73.

Reservations for meals at the Fairfield senior center must be made one day in advance either at the center or by calling 472-4403.

For reservations at Lockridge, call 319-696-2711.

Bingo is played from 12:15-1:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and the Ed Bruegge Band plays at noon the first Wednesday of every month in Fairfield.

For information about the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center, call the site manager at 472-4403.