Events And Activities

Dedication Ceremony for American Legion Monument

    The American Legion of Iowa family will host a dedication ceremony commemorating the Legion monument at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, a project which has been in the works for n...

Visit \'Friends of the Shelter\' tonight from 5-7

  Friends of the Shelter, Inc.  has reached a long term goal of providing an easily accessible community resource, education, and adoption center in this area. We recently purchas...

BACCALAUREATE SERVICE to be held May 16th

  BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Wednesday, May 16th, at 7:00 pm in the Vinton Shellsburg High School Auditorium. This event us sponsored by the Vinton Area Ministerial Association....

Relay for Life set for June 1; information on luminarias offered

  The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Benton County will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 1, at the Vinton Shellsburg High School Track, Vinton. One important aspec...

Reifenstahl benefit planned for May 12

For more than nine years, Tina (Dolley) Reifenstahl has been fighting a very aggressive and rare form of breast cancer called HER2NUE. The cancer had progressed to the lymph nodes in her ...

Blind bike racer to speak in Vinton, May 5

Blind bicyclist Bobby McMullen will speak in Vinton this Saturday.   Bobby McMullen, Blind Extreme Bike Racer will be speaking to Parents of Blind Children on the Iowa Braille Campus 8:45- 10:15 for the Spring Parent conference on Saturday May 5. See ...

Parkinson\'s Support Group will meet May 24th

The Parkinson’s Support Group Next meeting is May 24th at 1:30 in the Windsor Manor Dining Room – Program: Gayle and Ervin Fopma from Sully, IA  They are Directors on the Iowa...

Better Tomorrows Board to meet May 2

   Better Tomorrows Board will be meeting on May 2nd at the Kirkwood Vinton Center at 12:00 p.m.  Topics of discussion will be insurance, preschool scholarships, Co-Director...

Legion plans tenderloin fry May 5, in Vinton

  The American Legion George G. Luckey Post 57 members have planned a  Tenderloin Dinner Saturday, May 5, 2012, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.   The legion is located...

Master Gardener Extravaganza, plant sale set for May 12 at VSHS

  The 8th Annual Master Gardeners Spring Extravagana will be held on Saturday, May 12 at the Vinton-Shellsburg High School. The event starts with a plant sale from 9:00 – 10:00 a...