Events And Activities

2021 Benton County Shelter In Relay For Life: Sunday, June 6th

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Benton County, a virtual event, will be held Sunday, June 6th, 2021, at 5:00 PM. This date is also the 34th annual National Cancer Survivors Day. Nation...

Kids Fisherie Fishing Seminar and Fisherie June 5

Enjoy the great outdoors and learn to fish on Iowa’s FREE fishing weekend!• Rodger’s Park - 2113 57th St Trail, Vinton• Saturday, June 5 -- weather permitting• 8:30 am registration • ...

P.E.O. Chapters MZ and HG to meet June 12th

P.E.O. Chapters MZ and HG will meet Saturday, June 12th, at the Vinton Country Cub for brunch at 9:30 AM.  Please call Brenda to make your reservation by June 8th....

Trees Forever Offering Stewards of the Beautiful Land Summer Courses

Trees Forever and the University of Northern Iowa's Tallgrass Prairie Center announce the revival of a popular workshop series focused on caring, planting and managing native prairie and trees.The fir...

Lions Club Celebrates 100th Year July 6

Caption: Trained in using a special camera, Vinton Lions members for decades have provided a valuable free service to help identify possible visual problems in young children. Sight-saving a...

2021 Iowa State Park Passport Offers Open Road, Endless Adventures

The Iowa Tourism Office and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources today announced [upd]s to the popular Iowa State Park Passport to give consumers a fun and engaging way to track their visits to st...

Friends of the Center Point Library to hold Book Sale June 11,12

The Friends of the Center Point Library's annual used book sale will be Friday, June 11, 3-7,, and Saturday, June 12, 9-1:30, in the Library community room.  Hardcovers are $1, paperbacks 50 cent...

Nathan's Miles Glow Trail to open May 27

Click to view the story behind Nathan's Smile I mean Nathan's Miles.Vinton Parks and Recreation will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Nathan's Miles Glow Trail on Thursday evening, May 27th at 9:30 ...

Memorial Day Services in the area

Memorial Day Services will be held at the following locations and times.Vinton11:00 a.m.The George G. Luckey Post 57 105 North R Ave., VintonConstance M. Arens Lt. Colonel, Retired will be speaking.Mt...

Opal & Hazel's Wood Fired Pizza Celebrate 1st Anniversary May 29 at Riverside

Opal and Hazel's Wood Fired Pizza Celebrates 1st Anniversary this Friday at Riverside Park Opal & Hazels Wood Fired Pizza began just a year ago, in May of 2020. Scott and Annette Merchant discovered wood-fired pizza for the first time at a fair and absolutely loved it. They said, "For s...