Fairfield Kiwanis Club; James Harlan Chapter DAR

FAIRFIELD KIWANIS CLUB

Sarah Horgen, education coordinator of the University of Iowa Natural History Museum, will be the speaker at the Fairfield Kiwanis Club meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Horgen will speak about the archaeological scientific mammoth dig near Oskaloosa and the natural history museum.

Anyone interested in attending the meeting to hear Horgen?s presentation can call Howard L. Hunt, president of the Kiwanis Club, at 472-4323.

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JAMES HARLAN CHAPTER DAR

James Harlan Chapter DAR announces Carson Joy Miller as the Iowa state winner for the Daughters of the American Revolution, American History Essay Contest ? seventh-grade category.

Miller will be recognized during the ISDAR State Convention April 24-26 in Ames. Her essay has been forwarded on to the division contest.

Miller is homeschooled and lives just west of Mount Pleasant with her parents Kiley and Carry Miller. Her younger brother, Caleb Miller entered an essay at the fifth-grade level.

Rose Ella Lynn Yeager, an eighth-grader from West Point, also submitted an essay. She is homeschooled and lives with her parents Bob and Susan Yeager.

Rose Yeager, Carson Miller and Caleb Miller have been invited to read their essays at the March 22 James Harlan Chapter DAR meeting at the Fellowship Cup in Mt. Pleasant.

The annual DAR contest is open to students in public, private and parochial schools and registered home-study programs. Students in grades five through eight are encouraged to participate. This year?s topic was ?The Lives of Children During the American Revolution.? Essays are judged for historical accuracy, adherence to the topic, organization of materials, interest, originality, spelling, grammar, punctuation and neatness.

The American History Essay Contest was established to encourage young people to think creatively about the nation?s great history and learn about history in a new light.

One essay in each grade is selected as the division winner and forwarded for national competition. One essay in each grade is then selected as the national winner and will be presented in June at NSDAR Continental Congress in Washington, D.C.

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