Month: January 2016

All area residents are invited for breakfast the Elks lodge this Sunday, Jan. 10, from 9 am to 1 pm. The Elks will prepare and serve French toast bake, biscuits with sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon, fruit, and coffee, milk and juice.

A soup supper fundraiser hosted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary, and the American Legion will be held Saturday, Jan. 16, at the VFW hall at 109 N. Chestnut St in Jefferson.

The successful historical plaque tour co-hosted last September by Jefferson Matters: Main Street and the Greene County Historical Society last September garnered donations to be used for the purchase of additional historical plaques for the lamp posts around Jefferson’s courthouse square.  Many ideas for future plaques were shared that day. The Main Street promotion committee is asking area residents to nominate a Greene…

~by Barbra Jotzke-Torrier for Whiterock Conservancy Upon her death Mary Garst of Coon Rapids, the widow of Stephen Garst, gave the people of Iowa a tremendous gift of protected land that will benefit generations. A total of 1,200 acres of natural lands, farming lands, and recreational lands, valued at $7 million, has been donated to the non-profit Whiterock Conservancy to…

LifeServe Blood Center will hold a community blood drive Tuesday, Jan. 12, from 12:30 to 5:30 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church in Jefferson. According to LifeServe, someone in the Untied States needs blood every two seconds, but less than 10 percent of the population donates annually. To schedule a blood donation appointment visit lifeservebloodcenter.org or call 800-287-4903.

Iowa led the way in organizing Red Cross chapters DES MOINES —The American Red Cross will celebrate a century of service in Iowa in 2016. To recognize this achievement, the Red Cross in Iowa will host a year-long series of events and campaigns commemorating the organization’s 100-year anniversary. In the spring of 1916, as tensions mounted in the United States…

Jefferson hadn’t yet stepped into the deep freeze as of Jan. 8 when volunteer weather observer John Beltz ended his most recent reporting week. He reported a high temperature of 34 degrees and a low temperature of 7 degrees.  Precipitation totaled .33 inch, with .3 inch of snow and .27 inch of rain.