Vinton Unlimited announced the Grand Prize winner of their Holiday Lights Punch Card drawing. For the 2023 holiday shopping season, the Grand Prize winner is Andrew Noe! The punch card with Andrew’s name on it was drawn from a total of 9,749 punch cards! The 2023 Holiday Lights Punch Card Grand Prize is valued at almost $1,400! The Grand Prize contained many items, a few of those items are tools, artwork, home décor, and many, many gift cards and certificates! (Photos to be released on Thursday.

 What: The Benton County Community Foundation is holding their 2023 grant awards celebration.  Why: The Benton County Community Foundation will be awarding over $290,000 in grants to nonprofits and government entities in the areas of arts and culture, community betterment, education and youth development, environment and animal welfare, health and human service.

On Saturday, December 30, 2023, at about 10:24 PM, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting that a 59-year-old female had been shot and was being transported to a local hospital by private vehicle.

Lions Club Officers Pictured:Left to Right: Dennis Lauser-DirectorLynn Montgomery-Secretary Teri Wehage-3rd Vice-President Tanner Davis-Vice-President Phil Borleske-Lion TamerCharlie Garwood-Tail Twister Bethany Gates-2nd Vice-President Scott Barron-DirectorAlan Woodhouse-TreasurerDan McCann-DirectorLarry Andreesen-DirectorMatt Johnson-PresidentThe Vinton Lions Club (VLC) was founded in 1921 and is one of the oldest service organizations in Benton County.

On Saturday, December 31, 2023, FDA published a Constituent Update entitled Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition Voluntarily Recalls Certain Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Powdered Infant Formula Products related to the voluntarily recalled certain Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder company notice.

This is just a reminder that there will NOT be a daily email on Monday or Tuesday of next week due to the New Year's Day holiday.HOWEVER, if something urgent comes up, I'll post it to the Vinton Today Facebook page, so be sure to follow that.

It's another year in the books for the Angel Tree program. The small contingent of elves behind Angel Tree was able to assist our Benton County area children.

An online presentation called "Iowa Super - Vision" about the segment of Highway 150 that runs from Urbana to Oelwein can be seen at the following link: https://www.

Every penny counts and the students at Shellsburg Elementary did a lot of counting! Penny Wars were held between the classes to raise money for Aiming for a Cure Foundation.

Week #4 winner in Vinton Unlimited's Holiday Lights Punch Card drawing is Lexa Speidel! Lexa's name was drawn out of a total of 1,715 cards for the week.