Business Management and Decision Making on the Farm, January 21st, 2012 1 - 4 pm Linn County ISU Extension Office  3279 7th Ave Suite 140 Marion, IA Trying to decide when to purchase a piece of equipment or simply decide the proper product mix to match your income goals? Craig Chase, a Farm & Ag Management Field Specialist, will show you how to use enterprise budgets to make pricing, product mix, and production changes, use partial budgets to make investment decisions like machinery and land and how to use whole-farm records to evaluate how your business is doing and make educated business decisions.

  PEO Chapter HG will meet Saturday, January 14th at 9:00         A.M. at the home of Ann Williams.  The assistant hostess         will be Ann Harrison.

VGH’s Diabetes Support Group will meet Tuesday, January 17, 2012 in the hospital cafeteria from 4:30-5:30pm. Topic: “Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Diabetes- Are Blood Sugars Affected?”  Presented by Kim/VGH Resp Therapy.

PEO Chapter MZ will meet at 1:30 on Monday, Jan. 9,at the home of Karen Schlue assisted by Barb Fuchs.  Please meet to carpool at 1 p.

  Breast Cancer Survivors Group:  We will not meet the first Tuesday of January! We will meet for dinner (free will donation) at Windsor Manor at 6:00 p.

  School is out for Winter Break but does that now mean you have to be stuck inside and bored to tears watching rerun TV? Of course not! The Vinton Parks & Recreation Department has plenty of upcoming activities to keep Vinton-Shellsburg youth occupied while celebrating the holiday season!   The Winter Carnival at the Vinton Skate & Activity Center will take place from 9 AM – 11 AM on Tuesday, December 27th.

  Kirkwood Admission office hosts New Adult Learner Welcome Day, January 9; event designed to dispel myths about returning to college. Kirkwood Community College will hold a reception for adults who are planning to return to college or start for the first time.

        Vinton's 5K Tour deLights Results by division       Overall Female Winner

  On Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 7pm, Wesley United Methodist Church will host Christmas Eve Before You Leave. In a lessons and carols format with featured solos by Lori Ferguson and Douglas Yenser, worship concludes with lighting candles and singing Silent Night.

  Oak Grove Church presents 'Christmas Unwrapped,' a new take on discovering the true meaning of Christmas, at 6 p.m. Sat., Dec. 24, 2011.