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Vikes of the week: Cara Hoch, Juan Carlos and Michael Lint
The following three Vinton-Shellsburg High School students were named as Vikes of the Week for the kindness they showed others.
Cara Hoch and Juan Carlos (Mr. Vettraino) They have spent time this week during study halls and after school sorting and distributing the fundraisers that their class sold last Trimester. They have done this voluntarily as their class was over at the end of the second trimester and all grades were in. Vinton resident flies again after years thanks to Windsor Manor Dreams campaign
Gloria McNaughton surprised all the guys at the airport when she showed up for flying lessons at an airport in Texas.
She was only 18, and she was a female.
“We didn’t have many female pilots then,” she said Saturday at the Vinton airport.
McNaughton got her pilot’s license shortly after graduating from high school. More photos from a proud Vinton-Shellsburg Jazz Band Mom
Several Vinton-Shellsburg Jazz Band fans, including parents and relatives, students and friends of the performers, went to Des Moines to see the Vinton-Shellsburg Jazz Band play in the State Championships for the first time since 2000.
Many of those who went took cameras and came back with many photos. The pictures that accompany this story were taken by Jan Andreesen, mother of Jazz Band member Claire Andreesen. 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.