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Lions Club hears from food pantry and Boy Scouts
Vinton Lions Club members have enjoyed two great programs in the past two weeks. On January 13th the group heard from the Benton County Food Pantry and on January 20th it was the Vinton Boy Scouts Troop 47 celebrating 83 years of the Vinton Lions Club serving as the local troop’s chartering organization.
Sherry Crawford and Linda Wood presented on behalf of the Benton County Food Pantry. Board of Adjustment to consider appeal for Red Door Auto Repair on Wednesday
For they meet on Wednesday for the first time in over a decade, the five-member volunteer Benton County Board of Adjustment will determine the future of an auto repair shop in rural Vinton.
Benton County Supervisors Terry Hertle and Donald Frese rejected Dean Brown's request for a land use change for his home at 2374 55th Street in November.
Pulsera project: VSHS students selling art made by Central America teens
A table in the Vinton-Shellsburg High School cafeteria was filled with bright bracelets on Friday, with many ladies and young girls gathering around to admire the colors and craftsmanship.
Each of the bracelets, or pulseras – the Spanish word for bracelet – was made by an young artist in Central America, said student Lindsey Miller. 8 Shellsburg Elementary Students to participate in Festival on Friday
Eight Shellsburg Elementary fifth grade students will be participating in the East Central Iowa Choral Director’s Association Honor Choir Festival this Friday. The ECICDA 5th & 6th Grade Honor Choir will be held on Friday, January 29 at Sinclair Auditorium on the Coe College campus in Cedar Rapids. A day of rehearsal will culminate in an evening concert at 7:00 pm.
New Vinton city web site offers large variety of information
One of the questions all candidates agreed on during last year's Vinton City Council/Mayor candidate forum was the need for an improvement in the city's official web site.
City leaders have been working on that project since that discussion, and a new web site is now online.
www.cityofvinton.org offers a variety of information about city departments, zoning and precinct maps, building permits, as well as river level updates and Vinton history.
Dictionary Project: Kiwanis donate to VS 3rd graders
Local elementary third-graders laughed together on Thursday, as they tried to read the longest word in the English language, a 1,900-letter chemical compound. They also learned a bit about sign language, the history of Iowa and other topics -- all from one small book that fits in their hands.
For a few years now, the Vinton Kiwanis Club has been bringing dictionaries to the third graders as part of its participation in the Dictionary Project. Cottage Garden Society Poetry Contest winners honored
National Garden Clubs, Inc. sponsored a Youth Poetry Contest 2015 theme “Croaking Leaping Frogs” for grades Kindergarten through Ninth Grade. The Cottage Garden Society Garden Club sponsored the contest on the local level and received 127 entries in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades from Tilford and Shellsburg Elementary. Clinton brings 2016 campaign to Vinton
Hillary Clinton returned to Vinton for the first time since the 2008 election, speaking to a crowd of about 500 at the Vinton Skate Center on Thursday afternoon.
Vinton Police Chief Tex Paxton said 11 VPD officers helped the U.S. Secret Service with security for the event.
Clinton spoke about several campaign themes, from health care to enforcing the bank reforms passed by Congress to make sure "Wall Street never destroys Main Street again. Love for Liv: Vinton girl continues to help others with heart defects
A few weeks ago, Kendra Spencer received a call she has feared since her daughter, Olivia, was born.
Now, age 8, Olivia began to turn blue at school. Her family rushed to pick her up at Central Lutheran and then to UIHC in Iowa City.
“Her oxygen saturations were at 82%,” Kendra recalls. “Hers are always lower anyhow, but this is lower than the doctors like. CyRide bus driver charged in hit-and-run death of ISU student from Urbana
Ames police have charged a CyRide Bus driver with the hit-and-run death of Urbana student Emmalee Jacobs on Dec. 14.
Benjamin Clague, 23, of Gilbert, has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death (a class D felony) and failure to obey a traffic control device, a simple misdemeanor.
He was arrested today after the Ames PD received information from other CyRide staff members.