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100+3 Bethlehem Lutheran donates to Vinton Lutheran Home
At the Sunday worship service on May 29, 2016, Bethlehem Lutheran Church
presented the May 2016 gift of $103.00 to the Vinton Lutheran Home.
The Lutheran Home strives to come up with new ideas and are dedicated to
provide their residents with an enhanced quality of life and a quality Christian Care.
Accepting the gift at this service was Kelli Van Ree, the Administrator for the Vinton Lutheran Home. Garrison Residents Invited to Share Ideas at Design Workshop
Contacts:
Teresa Meyer, 319-640-0119
Patty Reisinger, Trees Forever, 319-350-4185
Residents will have the opportunity to share their ideas for improving Garrison at a design workshop hosted by the Garrison visioning committee at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church on Tuesday, June 7th. This workshop is the culmination of an input-gathering process to identify transportation needs and opportunities for enhancements in Garrison.
Garrison Residents Invited to Share Ideas at Design Workshop
Residents will have the opportunity to share their ideas for improving Garrison at a design workshop hosted by the Garrison visioning committee at St. Mark's Lutheran Church on Tuesday, June 7th. This workshop is the culmination of an input-gathering process to identify transportation needs and opportunities for enhancements in Garrison. Information collected at public input gathering events conducted earlier this spring will be incorporated into a conceptual transportation and landscape enhancement plan.
VSMS names 3rd Trimester Honor Roll students
Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School students have been named to the 3rd Trimester Honor Roll. (Remember, there is now just an "A" Honor Roll, not an "A" and "B" Honor Roll as in previous years).
Click below to see the lists of honorees for each grade:
6th grade
7th grade
8th grade
Council to revisit golf cart ordinance after historic veto by Mayor Watson
Mayor John Watson seems to have made history last week, when he vetoed the golf cart ordinance which the Vinton City Council had approved at the previous meeting.
It is the first time anyone can recall a Watson veto.
Watson told the city council at its last meeting that he had heard many comments from local residents about the new ordinance – none of them favorable.
Vinton Clinic ground breaking Friday June 10 at 12:30 PM
Ground breaking for the new clinic construction at Virginia Gay will be Friday, June 10th, at 12:30 PM. The public is invited.
The total project cost is estimated to be $5.5 million. The Virginia Gay Healthcare Foundation's campaign has resulted in pledges, donations and support from the Foundation of $1.2 million.
With commencement of the project, valet parking is now available for the clinic as well as the hospital. Local drone photographer to continue hobby after graduation
For the past two years, Brendan Turner has offered Vinton residents a unique viewpoint of the city and its activities.
His drone-mounted camera has captured sunsets, football games, RAGBRAI and other moments. He took one of the very first photos of the new football field when it was completed last summer.
Brendan's most recent photo, however, was from a much lower altitude. Man arrested for burglary, willful injury after Sunday incident in Vinton
On Sunday, May 29, 2016, at approximately 4:22 p.m., law enforcement and EMS units were dispatched to 211 E. 4th Street in Vinton for a report of a disturbance involving an intoxicated person breaking windows.
Upon arrival, a 37 year-old female was identified as the intended victim of an assault and was found suffering from apparent serious injuries primarily on and about her head. Class of 2016 says farewell to VSHS
The Class of 2016 is a family, said graduate Celia Turner.
Turner, who gave the student address during commencement on Sunday afternoon, recalled her days as a reluctant newcomer to Vinton-Shellsburg as a middle school student, but also recalled how every group of students treated others well.
It was during their senior year, said Turner, that the Class of 2016 became even more like a family, as they shared experiences like homecoming painting traditions. IPA members learn rocket building, prepare for Boomtown and contests at Bar-Y
When 6-year-old Brooklyn Meling participates in Show-And-Tell this week at her elementary school in Ankeny, her classmates will hear an incredible claim about the weekend she spent in Vinton: “I made a rocket, and fired it into the sky.”
Brooklyn has the photos to prove that she did exactly that over the weekend, as she and her parents, Beau and Stephanie, spent their first weekend at Chuck Yedlik’s Bar-Y Ranch with scores of other IPA members.