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.

  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.

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 arm and neck and recently began attacking her brain.

  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.

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 Parkinson’s Disease Association Board.

   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 salary/benefits, web site, payroll provider, by-laws, transition plan 501© and 28E agreement.

  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 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.

  1203 1st Ave Friday and Sat 8am –4 Moving sale, couches, loveseat, leather chair and ottoman, misc tools, tv’s, stereos, vcr’s, speakers, toys, games, books and more   702 East 1st Street Saturday only 7 am-2 Fishing tackle, hunting clothes, misc Sewing items and craft items   615 2nd Ave Fri 4-7, Sat 7-4 2nd Annual Walker/Ruscom “Man Sale” Hunting and fishing gear, clothes, books, golf clubs, compound bow w/case, 92” Bass tracker ready to fish, tools, Tracie’s stuff too….

University of Iowa men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery, wrestling coach Tom Brands, retired football defensive coordinator Norm Parker and others will meet Hawkeye fans and speak to the audience during the May 24 Benton County I-Club banquet at Keystone Turner Hall.