May 24, 1946

• In the presence of 220 persons who attended the Kiwanis banquet Monday evening – many of them from clubs in other cities – the Fairfax club received its charter and officially became one of the more than 2,400 clubs of Kiwanis International.

• For the first time in the past two or three years, the Fairfax City Park is now in good condition. The grass has been mowed, trees trimmed up and buildings and other equipment repaired. Care of the park is under the supervision of Ellis Pressnall, who is a member of the park board.

• Mrs. Jess Harbin informs The Forum that she served new potatoes out of her garden at dinner on May 16 and the potatoes were good sized ones, too. The potatoes were planted March 1. Mrs. Harbin usually has new potatoes early, but she thinks this is the earliest she has ever served them. As far as The Forum knows, it’s a record for the community, too.

• The last hatch of the season at the Donelson turkey farm came off Tuesday and that brings the total number of young turkeys on the farm this year to 7,500. Five thousand have been hatched in the farm’s incubators which were installed in time for use this year. Donelson will have 20 brooder houses and from 30 to 35 range shelters when his building program for the year has been completed.

May 27, 1971

• According to a letter Chairman Jim Harbin received from Missouri Community Betterment, Fairfax is scheduled to have an airmarker painted on one of its buildings sometime within the next eight weeks. Fairfax Community Betterment has been attempting to accomplish this project for several years and is pleased that at last it will be realized.

• The Guardian, the Fairfax High School yearbook, was dedicated to Mrs. Helen Muldrew, secretary to Superintendent Kottman.

May 23, 1996

• Last Thursday afternoon, the kindergarten class, along with teacher Dixie Stoner, planted a Red Bud tree in the Fairfax City Park on the north side near Third Street.

• Last week, Loyal Kent and his wife, Eula, and son, John Kent, picked up the show cases and shelving that were in the former Rogers building and took them to Garnet, Kansas, to be used in their antique shop. The counters were made in Beatrice, Nebraska, and they intend to find out when.

• Some BIG mushrooms were recently brought into the Forum office. Mrs. Shane Heits found one that was 6 1/2 inches tall and weighed 1.65 pounds and Lisa Pinzino found one that weighed 2.73 pounds and was 8 inches tall.