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IBSSS Mary Ingalls Society offer First Edition Calendar
First Edition Calendar – 2015
The school has never had a calendar in its 153 year history, so the IBSSS Mary Ingalls Society is very excited to offer 100 numbered copies of this First Edition. There are plans to have calendars offered annually highlighting the school and its story. Each calendar has beautiful colored pictures of the school’s campus and some bits of information about Mary Ingalls. Fire damages rural Vinton farm building
Gary Marlow walked from his home on 54th Street to the corner of 24th Ave. Drive to retrieve his Sunday issue of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, but discovered some other news: A fire in a neighbor’s farm building.
Marlow noticed smoke coming from a shed at the Peterman farm at 5515 24th Avenue Drive. He dialed 911 but the building was engulfed in flames before firefighters arrived. Mary Ingalls Society seeks donations, volunteers as it preserves IBSSS history
Dear Friend:
The Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School Mary Ingalls Society just began its 3rd year, and we are very excited about the future. This excitement stems from the work of our first two years resulting in the following:
1. Vintage photo display in the front hall of Old Main.
2. Photo books showing students and activities at the school by decade.
SE Polk leader discusses one of Iowa's first HS field turf projects
Most of the recycled rubber field turf projects at eastern Iowa high school fields have been installed within the past few years.
Vinton-Shellsburg played the first football game on the new turf at Benton Community during the first game of the 2012 season.
At Clear Creek-Amana, where the Viking played in 2014, the field turf has been in place since 2009.
BC Community Foundation workshop offered grant information
Over 20 representatives of area nonprofits and civic organization attended the Benton County Community Foundation grant workshop on Monday, January 12, at the Van Horne Community Building. The workshop was originally scheduled for January 5, but was postponed due to winter weather.
The Foundation is accepting grant applications until March 15th. Box tops continue bringing in thousand$ for Tilford
Meggan McNeill of the Tilford PTO and Principal Jim Murray celebrated the continued success of the PTO's participation in the Box Tops for Education program. The school recently received another check of more than $4,000, representing tens of thousands of box tops from a variety of projects collected by volunteers over the past year.
In addition to bags of box tops students bring two school, Tilford was also the beneficiary of two pallets from the work place of a Tilford family member. Clickstop begins new closet program to help local families
When Loraine Kelty and Ashley Rambo of Clickstop were organizing the company’s annual Christmas Cares program in October, the need they saw in local communities was overwhelming.
The Christmas giving program, which involves the Clickstop Cares committee providing six to eight area families in need with Christmas gifts, clothes, and basic necessities, had a record number of families this year: 12, with more requests and suggestions coming in weekly.
After reviewing studies, VS Board chooses crumb rubber for new turf project
For as long as athletes – from the smallest youth soccer players to the highest-paid celebrities – have been practicing and performing on synthetic turf fields cushioned with rubber crumbs from recycled tires, the leaders of sports organizations, schools and medical experts have pondered and studied the safety of those fields, and those crumbs.
USDA officials explain 2014 Farm Bill deadlines, changes at local meetings
The ratio of pickups to minivans in the Oak Grove Church parking lot favored trucks on Tuesday morning, where approximately 50 of the county’s 2,000 farmers gathered for an update on the 2014 Farm Bill.
The new federal law contains a Feb. 27 deadline for making changes to base acres for the PLC (Price Loss Coverage) program. Farmers who do not make any changes by that deadline will be required to use base acres from previous years. Lights and Roping Take Down by area FFA Members
January 3rd, 2015 the Vinton-Shellsburg FFA members and National Honor Society went through down town Vinton to take down the lights and roping that they had put up in November.
Members arrived at the courthouse at 9 am to get started, and with the amount of members there it only took about an hour for them to finish the work! After their hard work the members ate donuts and drank hot chocolate, to warm them up from the winter cold.