Solitaires, Fairfield Latin and Ballroom Association, Jefferson County Genealogical Society, Jefferson County Retired School Personnel, Clover Kids

SOLITAIRES

Members of Solitaires will have dinner Sunday at Bonaparte Retreat.

Members should meet at noon in the First National Bank in Fairfield parking lot to pool rides.

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FAIRFIELD LATIN and BALLROOM ASSOCIATION

The Fairfield Latin and Ballroom Association will host a Latin, ballroom and swing dance Sunday at Morning Star Studio.

A lesson in West Coast swing starts at 7:30 p.m., and the dance is from 8-10 p.m.

Admission is $3.

For more information, contact Paul Saipher at 919-5698 or fflbra@iowatelecom.net.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

The Jefferson County Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the genealogy department of the Fairfield Public Library.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY RETIRED SCHOOL PERSONNEL

Jefferson County Retired School Personnel will meet for a noon luncheon Wednesday at the McElhinny House.

Hosts are Susan Phipps, Susan Shafer and Mark Shafer.

The program will be given by Fairfield High School exchange student Stian Hoff from Norway.

Incorrect information was provided for the announcement in the Ledger Thursday.

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CLOVER KIDS

The Jefferson County Fairfield 4-H Clover Kids met 5:15-6:15 p.m. Thursday April 12 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building.

Twenty-four members made caterpillars using clothespins, multi-color pom-poms, chenille stems and movable eyes. To make maracas, members added rice or died beans to plastic eggs, glued on a stick handle and decorated the eggs with colorful stickers. Each also chose cut strips of material to make a braided snake. These can be ideas for the members to enter at the Jefferson County Fair in June.

Members are making a scrapbook page to go in the Clover Kids scrapbook, which will be entered at the county fair. If a member didn?t bring a completed page to the April meeting, they are asked to bring it to the meeting May 10. A cardstock page, cut to the size of the book, was issued at the March and April meetings.

For a snack, the group made caterpillar cracker snacks, adding frosting and colorful marshmallows to their crackers, with water to drink.

As a community service project, members and adult helpers put on protective rubber gloves and picked up trash on the fairgrounds.

Helping with the activities were Juanita Bray, Ella Cass, Karen Crossland, Phyllis Harris, Eileen and Heather Pickard, Tom Gerleman, Carrie Steele, John Sandbothe and Leland and Shirley Stanley.

The next meeting will be from 5:15-6:15 p.m. May 10 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.

?Shirley Stanley, Jefferson County Fairfield 4-H Clover Kids leader