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PLEASANT PLAIN ? Pleasant Plain Friends Church will celebrate 175 years of ministry and mission Oct. 29.The theme will be ?Bloom where you are planted.?The church?s first preparative meeting was held Feb. 3, 1841, as a new planting by a delegation from Salem Monthly Meeting. Pleasant Plain is the second oldest Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) west of the Mississippi River, with Salem being the oldest.Early ...

OTTUMWA ? Heartland Pregnancy Center of Ottumwa?s annual fund raising banquet, ?Stories from the Heart,? will be 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at Indian Hills Community College?s art and sciences building.Tickets are $20. Table reservations are for groups of four. Reserved tickets and seating are available until Oct. 28.Other tickets are first-come, first-served the evening of Nov. 4.For information, call 641-683-3030.

The following area houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through Oct. 29.Any congregation wanting to have its calendar for the week of Oct. 30 through Nov. 5 published in The Ledger Oct. 28 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday.Listings are not perpetually printed. A weekly or monthly calendar must be submitted for the listing to appear in The Fairfield Ledger; specify if ...

The Broadway Players of FHS announce its fall production entitled ?What If ....Betsie Wotherspoon, Fairfield High School?s new drama director, promises ? as Monty Python used to say ? ?something completely different.?The title references Wotherspoon?s belief that every captivating story begins with the thought: ?What if . . . ?? The production is comprised of three short plays and a mini-musical, which answer ...

Fairfield Community School District has listed its lunch menu for this week.Elementary schools:Monday ? breakfast: chocolate chip breakfast bar, milk, juice, fruit. Lunch: cheeseburger on a bun, baked beans, cauliflower with dip; applesauce, milk.Tuesday ? breakfast: build-your-own yogurt parfait, milk, juice, fruit. Lunch: chicken alfredo, garlic bread, steamed broccoli, celery sticks, peaches, milk.Wednesday...

A group of area churches is having its eighth food packing session Sunday afternoon at Word of Life Lutheran Church.The church volunteers will now be packing food for Take Away Hunger instead of Kids Against Hunger.The first shift will start packing at 1 p.m., with the second shift starting at 2:30 p.m.; although volunteers are welcome to work for as short or as long as they would like. The packing event should ...

The following area houses of worship have submitted calendars for Sunday through Oct. 1.Any congregation wanting to have its calendar for the week of Oct. 2-8 published in The Ledger Sept. 30 should provide information to the newsroom by 9 a.m. Thursday.Listings are not perpetually printed. A weekly or monthly calendar must be submitted for the listing to appear in The Fairfield Ledger; specify if the submitted ...

Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its congregate meals 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 ? pork and cabbage casserole, baked sweet potato, oatmeal-raisin cookie, applesauce, wheat dinner roll, or bread, with margarine.Tuesday ? chicken salad sandwich,...