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The Vinton Parks & Recreation Department’s Celebration Park Project received another great donation from Farmers Savings Bank and CEO William C. Talen.  Their gift of $10,000 is going to help make this park a reality and shows once again the great community support that Farmers Savings Bank has given to the community and area for many years.

Usually, April 1 is the first day of construction season for street projects, but if you look around Vinton, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot going on. There is, however, a lot going on behind the scenes, and soon you will notice a lot happening around town. Here is an update on the projects about which you may have heard. More information can be obtained from Vinton City Hall at 472-4707 or attending a Vinton City Council meeting at Vinton City Hall, 110 West 3rd Street.

The Vinton-Shellsburg School board spent part of Monday’s meeting discussing the difficult topic of reducing staff as the district’s enrollment continues to decrease. “If we have fewer kids we have to have fewer teachers,” said Superintendent Mary Jo Hainstock. The district’s enrollment has declined by 120 between 2010-11 and 2013-14.

There are still a few seats left on the pep bus going to jazz champs.  This takes place next Thus, April 18, in Des Moines.   Our very own VSHS Jazz Band won our Districts in order to compete at State, beating the Independence Jazz band who has won Districts for the past several years. VSHS jazz band performs at 10:30 Thurs. morning.

For the fourth year in a row, a Vinton-Shellsburg High School artist has brought home the "Best of Show" in 3D award from the WaMaC West Art Fair. This year, Stephanie Berry and Tiffany Auen share the award. Stephanie won first place in the Decorative Ceramics category, while Tiffany placed second in that category. Stephanie created a design called "Something's Fishy," showing a person with a red octopus covering her head.

Most nights I hear this right before falling asleep. No, it's not what you think!  Every night Dean clicks the Stats button on the backend of the website to see if anyone cared about what we put out for the day. Last night we hit 12,000! Usually when we see a spike in this number, we've found another pocket of readers that just LOVE Vinton and want to know all they can about what's happening here! Can you imagine how many people are out there that STILL haven't found Vinton Today? Then imagine how many people used to live in Vinton at one time or another and would LOVE to find this website! That's where you come in.

It seems that since Spring is here, everyone is cleaning out the garage, or wanting to fill the garage or needs a little something and wants to buy it. Our Classifieds are REALLY easy to use, REALLY easy to pay for and REALLY easy to find! They are right at the top of the page, not there, over to the right, next spot...THERE!  Just

  The City of Vinton picks up leaves every fall when residents put them out on the curb. Because of this service, residents may believe that the city also picks up the leaves and branches in the spring. This is not the case. Please take any branches, leaves, or bush trimmings to the City of Vinton brush dump, which is the second right turn going north from the Cedar River Bridge.

Rosa is a grey and white long hair cat w/green eyes, she is wearing a black collar with a bell and red rabies vaccination tag. She is about 10 years old and skinny. If you find her please contact animal control at 319-472-2337 or email vintonshelter@yahoo.com. Thank you.

FOTSI got in TEN kittens today! They are only a few weeks old, so we will have to hold them for a few more weeks until they are old enough and healthy enough for adoption. If you would like to donate some kitten food (canned or dry) or a monetary donation, there are a few ways you can get ahold of us! 1. Go to our store (211 West 4th Streeet) Friday (11-4) or Saturday (11-4) 2.