Obituaries

The following rural churches have made changes to their calendars for Sunday through Feb. 25.Any rural church that would like to have its calendar for the week of Feb. 26 through March 3 printed in The Ledger Feb. 23 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 news@ffledger.com, ...

The Bonnell Project will host an open house from 1-5 p.m. Saturday at the former St. Mary Catholic Church property.The Bonnell Project, a Fairfield nonprofit organization, purchased the St. Mary property in October. The property, including the five-bedroom parsonage, the 15,000-square-foot DeCoursey Hall, with a large kitchen and dining hall, and a 1,500-square-foot workshop building on 1.7 acres of land, was ...

Doug and Angie Copeland of Fairfield announce the engagement of their son Adam Burns Copeland and MaKayla Ann Pratt, daughter of David Pratt of Fairfield and Linda Whitlatch of Marion.The bride-elect works at Logli?s Store in Fairfield and lives in Libertyville.The groom-elect works at Agri-Industrial Plastics in Fairfield and is a member of the Iowa Army National Guard?s 3654th Maintenance Company in Knoxville....

The sustainable living department at Maharishi University of Management will host an informational meeting about the Boxer-DeFazio ?Dear Colleague Letter? circulating now in Congress at 8 p.m. Thursday in Dalby Hall.Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio?s letter (D-OR) urges members of Congress to sign a bicameral letter asking the Food and Drug Administration to label genetically engineered food.The ...

Ottumwa Crisis Center and Women?s Shelter officials are reminding the community February is teen-dating violence awareness month.Officials with the center say one out of 10 high school students and 22 percent of college students experienced physical violence in dating relationships, and that many teenagers believe jealously, possessiveness and abuse are ?normal? in intimate relationships. Officials say jealously ...

ELDON ? Cardinal Community School District officials have announced the names of students who earned recognition on the second-quarter honor roll for the 2011-12 academic year.Students on the A honor roll are:Sixth-graders Madison Black and Jaden Roberts.Seventh-graders Trevor Albert, Bryce Benedict, Taylor Howard, Marcus Olson and Kristian Trout.Eighth-graders Jessie McElderry, Ryley McElderry, Delaney ...

Stephen and Julie Ernst of Fairfield and Susania Ernst of Indianola announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah Ernst to Dylan Walther, son of Duane and Amy Walther of Cedar Falls.The bride-elect is a graduate of University of Iowa.The groom-elect graduated from University of Northern Iowa.A June wedding is planned.

The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week.Meals are served at 11:30 a.m.Monday ? hamburger, wheat hamburger bun, oven-brown potato, baked beans, sliced strawberries, oatmeal raisin cookie.Tuesday ? liver and onions, parsley butter potato, gravy, mixed vegetables, banana bran muffin, ice cream cup.Wednesday ? baked chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, tomato cucumber ...

As a kid did your parents warn you, ?If you do that ...?? I wore flip flops to ride my bike ? once. I believed my parents after the skin was scraped off all five toes.Even now when an adult tells me, ?You know what is going to happen ?? I occasionally do things my own way first. After failing, I try it their way.Jesus warned his friends about the future. They did not believe Him. One friend said, ?Afterward,...

The following churches have made changes to their calendars for Sunday through Aug. 13.Any Fairfield church that would like to have its calendar for the week of Aug. 14-20 published in The Ledger Aug. 12 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday. CENTRAL BAPTIST302 W. Jefferson Ave.Ray Ellerd, pastorSunday: worship service, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: worship service, 6 p.m. ...