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Statons celebrate 50th Anniversary

Norval and Helen (McNeal) Staton were united in Holy Matrimony on March 27, 1965 at the Assemlby of God church in Vinton. Their friends and family would like to honor them with a Golden 50th An...

Caitlin Kruckenberg earns King Scholarship from Cornell College

Caitlin Kruckenberg of Garrison, Iowa (52229), was presented Cornell College's most prestigious scholarship, the King Scholarship, on Wednesday, March 11. The King Scholarship is a four-ye...

FEMA Corps Continues to Help New Jersey Recover from Sandy

FEMA Corps Continues to Help New Jersey Recover from Sandy By: Kelsey Nunn Spruce 1 was sent to Colts Neck, New Jersey to assist FEMA Region 2’s Closeout Processing Center (CPC) back in December 2014. They have spent the last 14 weeks helping FE...

NCCC-FEMA Corps team reflects back on latest project

Alex and Joy pose with emergency preparedness kits By: Christina Wilbert & Katherine Radam Hickory 3 has spent the last few months serving with FEMA in Arlington, Virginia. As they are wrapping up their project the team has begun to reflec...

VINTON GARDEN CLUB NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 2015

  March 2, 2015    The Vinton Garden Club, member of National Garden Clubs, Inc., District II and Central Region met at 1:00 pm at the home of ...

Samantha Wenndt to help at the AIPACPC in Washington D.C.

Samantha Wenndt, a sophomore from Keystone, Iowa (52249), was one of thirteen students from Iowa State to be selected to work for Precision Meetings and Events Inc. to help with the American Israe...

Riley Ries receives President\'s Scholarship at Ashland University

Riley Ries of Vinton, has been accepted to Ashland University for the fall semester of 2015 and will receive the President's Scholarship for $11,000 annually to attend Ashland. Ries is a se...

North Eden Willing Workers 4-H News

The North Eden Willing Workers 4-H club gathered at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Vinton, on Monday, February 2nd at 5:30 PM. Committee Meetings were held before starting at 3:10 PM. to discus...

Center Point native conducts original research at Central College

Marissa Brandt of Center Point and 21 other Central College students are setting a record. They’re filling the labs with Central’s largest-ever number of chemistry researchers, says pr...

Jenna Schade named to University of Iowa President's List

Jenna Schade, a native of Walker, IA, was named to the University of Iowa President's List for the 2014 fall semester. The President's List was established in the fall of 1983 to recog...