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VINTON TODAY - October 3rd, 2013 11:07 am
Editor's Note: We continue our "We just had to ask" feature, this time learning more about the newest educators in the Vinton-Shellsburg School District.
Today, we ask our questio...
REBECCA BIGLER, NCCC - October 1st, 2013 9:15 am
Eric Docherty, from Hampton, Penn., is a member of Maple 3 in NCCC’s Class 19. He arrived in Vinton on February 5, 2013, to start his 10-month service term on a team of people between t...
AMERICORPS NCCC - October 1st, 2013 9:15 am
By Maryann Walbert
AmeriCorps NCCC’s (National Civilian Community Corps) Cedar 2 spent week in Hartland, Wis. The team traveled south on September 18 from Red Cliff, Wis., hoping to impr...
VINTON TODAY - October 1st, 2013 9:14 am
Katie Harms is a new teacher at Tilford Elementary, where she teaches alternative Kindergarten. However, she has been with the VS District since 2010, when she began as a Kindergarten teacher at Sh...
VINTON TODAY - September 30th, 2013 12:41 pm
Alexa Francois is the new Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School Behavior Learning Center teacher. As a college student, she played volleyball at Mount Mercy, where she was the team MVP her senior year. S...
EMILY CASHMAN, CO-REPORTER, VS FFA - September 30th, 2013 12:40 pm
On Saturday September 21, 2013, the Vinton-Shellsburg FFA helped out at the annual Farm Safety Day Camp, at the Vinton Fairgrounds. There were about 40 kids that came out to learn about farm safet...
VINTON TODAY - September 30th, 2013 9:10 am
The members of the Vinton Class of 1968 held their 45th reunion at John Ketchen’s Sept. 27, & Charles Yedlik’s Sept. 28, 2013.
Front row: Cheryl (Cantonwine...
REBECCA BIGLER, NCCC - September 27th, 2013 10:02 am
Rachel Ruggles, from Billings, Mont., is a member of Maple 1 in NCCC’s Class 19. She arrived in Vinton on February 5, 2013, to start her 10-month service term on a team of people betwee...
KRISTA EICHHORST, NCCC - September 26th, 2013 9:33 am
Evan McGloin, from Guilford, Conn., is the team leader for Pine 2 in AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps’ Class 20. He arrived in Vinton on July 22, 2013, to start his 11-month service term leading a...
AMERICORPS NCCC - September 26th, 2013 9:28 am
By Tristen Shevey
AmeriCorps NCCC team Maple 3 has been working with the Jones County Conservation Board (JCCB) since August 9. The team is conducting an archaeological study ...