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AmeriCorps NCCC Class 19 Team Leader Spotlight: Rebecca Bigler

By: Angela Sarrels Name: Rebecca Bigler Hometown: Littleton, CO Rebecca served as a Class 18 Corps Member on team Oak 7 at the Vinton campus in 2012. In January 2013, she began serving...

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Class 19 Member Spotlight: Kindra Akridge

Name: Kindra Akridge Hometown: Hobbs, N.M. Kindra is serving as a member of the NCCC FEMA Corps team Pine 1 at the Vinton Campus. She first learned about AmeriCorps NCCC while participati...

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Class 19 Member Spotlight: Kelly Besmer

  By: Krista Eichhorst Name: Kelly Besmer Hometown: Snoqualmie, Wash. Kelly is serving as a member of the NCCC FEMA Corps team Spruce 1 at the Vinton Campus. She first met som...

Community Worker Week at Happy Time

Happy Time Child Development Center had a special guest this week: Officer Ron Tippett, who shared how law enforcement officers work to help our community. He also read two books about police offic...

Little Vikes Preschoolers visit Palace

Students watch Marcy Horst demonstrate how to make popcorn. They learned how the Palace volunteers make lots of popcorn. They walked through the "secret" passageway that leads back stage. They sat in the big, comfortable stadium seat -- one child ...

Local students named to Central College dean's list

The following students were named to the fall 2012 Central College dean's list: Amy Andrews of Shellsburg, a Exploring major, is the daughter of Kenton and Pamela Andrews Alyson Garwoo...

IFAA Offers Iowa Youth $113,700 in Scholarships

College-bound Iowa youth active in 4-H and/or FFA livestock projects and current undergraduate students may apply for $113,700 in scholarships available from the Iowa Foundation for Agricultural A...

Beef Feedlot Roundtable sessions offered

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the University of Nebraska will be teaming up to offer a Feedlot Roundtable session at six Iowa locations on Thursday, Feb. 21 from 12:45-3:45 pm. ...

AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps Class 19 Member Spotlight: Kaley Bartosik

By: Krista Eichhorst Name: Kaley Bartosik Hometown: Kettering, Ohio Kaley is serving as a member of the NCCC FEMA Corps team Pine 3 at the Vinton Campus. She chose to participate in Am...

Ohrt donation brings Celebration Park total to $175,000

Jeff Peterson of the Celebration Park Committee with donors Penny and Rick Ohrt. The Vinton Parks & Recreation department Celebration Park Fundraising Committee is pleased to announce that they have now reached the $175,00 figure towards the goal of $250,000.  Pic...