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Resident at Windsor Manor has her Dream Come True!
Last winter, the Team at Windsor Manor got together and asked residents about their dreams with the goal to make them come true. “Windsor Manor’s philosophy revolves around quality of life and maintaining independence.” states Bethany Clemenson, Manager What better way to increase quality of life than to fulfill some dreams? After reviewing all the dreams an idea was born and that idea became the Operation Dream Builders program.
Quilt to raise money for Caleb Stewart's fight against cancer
Cindy Osborn, a customer service representative at Farmers Savings Bank & Trust-Vinton, has made a quilt as a fund-raiser for 13-year-old Caleb Stewart, who is undergoing treatment for cancer.
Osborn volunteered to make the 70-by-100-inch quilt; Farmers Bank paid for the materials. The quilt is now on display at the bank.
Osborn used the Double Star Crossing pattern from Thimbleberries, and made the quilt of gold, sage, green, plum, mustard and red. V-S art students win many top honors at annual WaMaC Art Fair April 13
While the Vinton-Shellsburg Jazz Band was competing in Des Moines, the Art students were also just off Interstate 80, competing in the annual WaMaC Art Fair at Tiffin.
The event takes place in the city of a conference school each year.
This year, the V-S artists won several honors, including a Best of Show and Artists' Choice, voted on by the partipants. TTT donates items to area preschools
The Vinton Chapter of TTT participates in monthly community outreach projects to support those who serve our community. Here, TTT member Susan Lent (right) and Happy Time Child Development Center Director Sharyl Ruport are shown with the items donated to the center. Similar items were also donated to the HACAP Headstart Preschool and Daycare. Proud but anxious parents watch trio of 2005 VSHS graduates serve in military
Like all other military parents, Steven and Christine Brewer and Jim and Linda Greaser of rural Vinton are proud of their sons, and nervous about their children’s future in the armed forces.
You can’t blame the Brewers or Greasers, however, if right now, they are a bit more proud and a lot more nervous than usual.
That’s because one of the Brewer sons is getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan while the other is in the middle of the intense and physically demanding Army Ranger training. Scouts help Garden Club at Ray House
Vinton Cub Scouts and their families helped a handful of Vinton Garden Club members do their annual spring landscaping clean-up at Ray House on Saturday.
"Boy did the Cub Scouts make our job easier," said Garden Club member Cindy Elwick.
Approximately 15 scouts and 10 parents assisted the four Garden Club members, said Elwick.
&n FFA Labor auction brings tribute to retiring advisor Duane Fisher
Money, according to the old cliché, talks.
Thursday night, money in the form of well over a dozen area farm families and businesses, told Vinton-Shellsburg FFA Advisor Duane Fisher "Thank you for 37 years of service.
The VS FFA Chapter held its annual fund-raising Labor Auction Thursday in the high school gym.
A total of 29 students took their turn on the auction block. Studer-Close Engagement
Dean and Christine Studer, Vinton are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Christine to Jonathan Nathaniel Close, son of Dean and Valerie Close, Brandon.
Laura graduated from the Vinton Homeschool Program in 2008. She is currently attending Kirkwood full time and working at the Edward Jones office in Vinton.
Jonathan is a 2008 graduate of the Vinton-Shellsburg Homeschool Program. Mr. & Mrs. Nick Perreault
Camille Ione Studer and Nicholas Lloyd Perreault were married on July 25, 2009 in an outdoor ceremony at the home of the brides parents in Vinton.
The double ring ceremony was performed by Audra Harvey, friend of the couple and Edward Van Vliet, friend of the groom.
Camille is the daughter of Dean and Christine Studer, Vinton and Nick is the son of Beverly Perreault and Robert Perreault, both of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Flynn-Studer Marriage
Nicole Nevart Flynn and Seth Francis Studer were married on June 5, 2009 at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts.
Paul Dixon, friend of the bride, performed the double ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Peter and Pamela Flynn of Maineville, Ohio. The groom is the son of Dean and Christine Studer of Vinton, Iowa.
Presented in marriage by her father, the bride was attended by her sister Rachel Plante, as maid of honor.