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VS FFA breakfast raises $1,330 for veterans groups
For the first time ever, the Vinton-Shellsburg FFA Chapter held a pancake breakfast at the Vinton Shellsburg High School.
Our pancake breakfast was on Saturday October 19, 2013 from 7-11am. The breakfast was free will donation, and all of the proceeds will be donated to local veterans' organizations.
Many FFA members come to help, as well as manyf community members, who came out to support us and the Vets. VS security audit probes school safety, response issues
A few days ago, several Vinton-Shellsburg educators reported to Superintendent Mary Jo Hainstock that a suspicious man was loitering around school buildings and even trying to enter some of them.
She explained to them that he was merely doing his job, trying to see how well educators would respond to a possible threat.
“As a part of our work to provide a safe and secure environment for students and staff, we contacted our insurance carrier, EMC, and asked them to do a safety audit,” Hainstock explains.
Funding, donations bring FFA 'Barn' project closer to reality
Just a month after Vinton-Shellsburg FFA members discussed their plan to build a livestock educational facility (known as The Barn) with the VS School Board, the project has already secured more than $160,000 of the estimated $200,000 needed to fully fund the project.
Officially called the Animal Learning Lab, the building the FFA plans to build with $100,000 from district PPEL funds and financial assistance from partners in the agricultural community will include space for livestock, as well as lab and office space.
VS athletic field turf project depends on success of fund-raising efforts
For what may have been the last time ever, Vinton-Shellsburg football players paused on the sidelines, and used a rubber mat with pegs to remove mud from their cleats.
This took place during the final freshman game of the season on Tuesday, just under 24 hours after the Vinton-Shellsburg School Board discussed a plan that could result in a new artificial turf being ready for the 2014 season. VS FFA member Stephen Stinson earns American Degree
Every once in a while in an FFA chapter’s history, there is a member who decides he or she wants to earn the highest degree awarded to an FFA member, the American Degree.
On November 2, 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky at the National FFA Convention, Stephen Stinson will be receiving his American Degree. Stephen is the twenty-first person from the Vinton-Shellsburg FFA chapter to receive this degree, since our chapter was started back in 1930.
Yeah, I am still in charge....
So, it's snowing.
Get over it, already.
Just because the calendar says it's only Oct. 22, doesn't mean I owe you "54 degrees and mostly sunny."
If I want snow two months before the official start of winter, there will be snow. Stop whining, already.
Like it matters to me if you don't like what I do. Celebration Park Progress: Gazebo lights
By day, passers-by can see the progress of Celebration Park's landscaping and sidewalks. Now, by night, they can see how lights add to the beauty of the gazebo.
Work continues on the park's pavilion and other features.
Yedlik urges NHS inductees to be 'addicted to learning'
"Be addicted to learning."
That was the advice from Edwon Yedlik, who is known to most Vinton-Shellsburg High School (and middle school) students as a substitute teacher.
Yedlik who holds degrees in a variety of fields including metaphysics, told the inductees of the National Honor Society that he is constantly taking new courses and learning new things. Band wraps up season at Waukee
The Vinton-Shellsburg Marching Band and first-year director Nick Waymire wrapped up their 2013 marching seaons with a performance at the Waukee Invitational.
The theme was "Pop Goes the Evil." The drum majors and flag corps members added masks that accompany the theme while parents helped with the set which include matching backdrops. Special Olympics Bowling: Zach Kramer, Josh White advance to State event
Zach Kramer finished first in his division during the Iowa Special Olympics bowling qualifying event earlier this month. He and Vinton-Shellsburg Union teammate Josh White both did well enough to advance to the State Special Olympics Bowling event in Cedar Rapids on Nov. 23.