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Insurance things you must do RIGHT NOW! The top 5 things you need to do RIGHT NOW with your insurance.Insurance is confusing. Nobody likes to deal with it but here are five things you should do right now. 1) Check the value that your home is insured for. Construction costs have skyrocketed over the last year in both materials and labor. Is your home insured for enough? 2) Have you reviewed your beneficiaries on your life insurance policy? Are these up to date? Do you have a life insurance policy and does your family know where the information is at? If you don’t have a life insurance policy, you should get it now- rates are slated to increase significantly mid-year.

4th St. Diner, 202 E. 4th Street in Vinton, is now open for on-site dining.  Reservations required by 10:00 am daily. There are a limited number of seats available each day. Reservations can be made up to 3 calendar days in advance  We ask that if you need to cancel your reservation, please do so by 10:00 am as well. The green meal site door will be unlocked at 11:00 am and relocked at 12:30 pm.

Many Iowa producers are including winter annual forages as a cover crop to protect water quality and improve soil health. These forages also can provide early spring grazing to help reduce feed costs and improve the health of spring calving cow herds.Denise Schwab, beef specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, said three field days will be held this month in northeast Iowa as a part of the Forage Alternative Research Project, demonstrating the use of winter annuals for spring grazing.

There will be a schedule/location change for this week.  In March we were scheduled to be in Keystone on Friday, April 15th. Since then, a Fish Fry was also scheduled for that night. Because we don't want to take support away from this, we have decided to move our location for Friday to Vinton. So, you can find us this Friday, April 15th in Vinton and Saturday the 16th in Belle Plaine.

The Iowa District Office is hosting a number of training sessions for small businesses during FY 2022. Check out the current schedule below and click on an event for more information and to register.April 2022 Schedule of EventsThursday, April 7, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. CDT and 6:00 p.m. CDTDrafting and Sharing Your Roadmap/Business Model – (two identical sessions available)11 a.

The CEO of My Credit Guy, Sam Parker, spent some time last week speaking to the Marketing Class at Vinton Shellsburg High School and then hosting the students in Mr. Robertson's Entrepreneur Class, at his offices in Vinton. These students are also the students who coordinate the Vinton Popcorn sales that you see around town.My Credit Guy is a full-service credit repair agency that helps clients across the United States qualify for a mortgage, auto, and other types of loans.

Clipper Corner celebrated the shop's 37th Anniversary this month. Mary Barkdoll and Jessica Davis celebrated the shop's accomplishment with an open house. Homemade gifts came in for the ladies from some of their customers as well as congratulatory words for the ladies.The business held an open house, offering refreshments to customers who stopped by and of course, the business of cutting, coloring, and styling continued.