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4th STREET DINER NEWS
4th Street Diner
HACAP North Benton Center
202 East Fourth St
Vinton, IA 52349
319-472-4761
Serving Buffet from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Monday through Friday. A choice of salads are available Monday – Friday on site.
Everyone is WELCOME! Suggested contribution for individuals 60 years old or older, and their spouse (regardless of age) is $3.
Open Coffee event allows business leaders to share ideas, discuss challenges
Yesterday, Vinton Unlimited hosted an Open Coffee event as part of “Creative Week” in the Creative Corridor. Creative Coffee is an opportunity for citizens in a community to get together to discuss topics that can help develop their respective entrepreneurial communities. An open forum to discuss innovation, entrepreneurship, tech, start-ups, job markets, diversity, education, economic development, and so on.
4th STREET DINER NEWS
4th Street Diner
HACAP North Benton Center
202 East Fourth St
Vinton, IA52349
319-472-4761
Serving Buffet from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
A choice of salads is available on the buffet. Everyone is WELCOME!
Suggested contribution for individuals 60 years old or older, and their spouse (regardless of age) is $2.
Cafe de Klos opens at former Legion site
For the first time since 2005, a new flag waves from the pole above the building that last served as the Vinton American Legion Hall.
Cafe de Klos is open.
Gary and Joan Dvorak have been working on the restaurant and building for the last couple of years, with Gary doing much of the work himself.
The couple welcomed their first customers on Saturday. LaGrange Pharmacy adds new Pharmacist
LaGrange Pharmacy is pleased to announce the addition of Dan LaGrange, Pharm. D to our pharmacy staff.
Dan is a 2010 graduate of the University Of Iowa Collage Of Pharmacy and has been practicing in Wenatchee Washington for the last 3 years.
Dan and his wife Ali have one son, Weston and live in rural Vinton.
Da Kirkwood and Mount Mercy University celebrate 15-year partnership
Colleges bring accelerated adult learning to Cedar Rapids
In 2013, Kirkwood Community College and Mount Mercy University mark their 15th year of a landmark partnership that provides working adults with a quality accelerated path to a bachelor's degree.
"Our partnership with Mount Mercy has provided a tremendous service to working adults in this area," said Kay Bone, program manager for Kirkwood's adult accelerated learning formats.
Home Instead offers help for seniors, job opportunities
Home Instead, a non-medical home care company, is now serving Benton County clients from a new office in Vinton.
The company offers a variety of services, at one hourly rate.
"We do everything that is non-medical," says owner Karen Huber.
One Home Instead client goes to Iowa Hawkeye football games, accompanied by a home care provider. FEMA policy change tops list of issues for discussions with leaders in D.C.
CEO Steve Marlow, East-Central Cooperative Rural Electric Cooperative, along with 35 other representatives from Iowa’s rural electric cooperatives have returned from Washington, D.C., after calling on Iowa’s congressional delegation to get engaged and direct FEMA to reconsider their policy change and work with rural electric cooperatives to resolve the issue fairly. City Lite Yogurt plans Saturday fund-raiser for Alex's Lemonade Stand
This month is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. City Lite Yogurt is partnering with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for a special fundraiser on Sept 21, 2013. We will be donating 10% of our total sales that day to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Please stop by, enjoy our yummy frozen yogurt, support a good cause, and help raise money to find a cure for Childhood Cancer.
Eastern Iowa College Fair Set for September 18
On Wednesday, September 18, Kirkwood Community College's rec center will be transformed into a “higher education shopping mall” as more than one thousand prospective students and their parents compare college choices from 9 – 11 a.m., at the annual Eastern Iowa College Fair.
Representatives from nearly 100 higher education institutions will talk with interested area residents.