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Farmers Bank open house: Santa, donations for churches and helping Harvest House
The Farmers Savings Bank & Trust-Vinton and its employees are celebrating their Christmas open house today. The morning began with the traditional presentation of the bank's donation to the Harvest House ministry for its Christmas giving program.
Throughout the day, customers can choose which church they would like the bank to donate $2 to. Toy drive is just one way VGH employees help community residents, organizations
The employees at Virginia Gay Hospital have already filled on barrel of toys to give to the families served by Horizons.
“Looks like I need to find another barrel,” said Monica Stark, who organized the toy drive again this year. Monica’s sister, Lori Hague, works at Horizons. Firemen respond to dumpster fire at Kerry facility
Vinton firefighters responded to a report of trash burning in a dumpster outside the Kerry production plant at 1501 W. D Street Thursday morning. Kerry employees tried to douse the flames with water from a garden house while waiting for firefighters to arrive.
Firemen doused the flames and also sprayed the exterior wall near the fire to keep the heat from damaging the building. LEC windows installed
Passers-by can see a small but significant step in the progress of the new Law Enforcement Center: Windows.
Windows have been installed in the administrative offices, signifying that workers are closing in on the goal of enclosing the building before serious winter weather arrives.
The project remains on schedule for a May 1 opening. Furnace 'hiccup' disrupts day at Clingman Pharmacy; minimal smoke damage
Modern technology helps spread news, both good and bad these days. At around 10 a.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 8) someone asked on Facebook, "Is there a fire in the ACT 1 studio above Clingman Pharmacy."
There was smoke, but no fire, in that building this morning, reports Jon Clingman. Business had resumed to mostly usual by 11 a.m.
"We had a little hiccup with one of our furnaces," he said.
NCCC Team Gets First Taste of Disaster Relief
Maple 5, the world’s best AmeriCorps NCCC team ever, was pulled from their project restoring prairie grasslands in Indiana and sent to Ottumwa, IA to assist the Wapello County Long Term Recovery Committee until Dec. 18.
On their first day the team received a case management orientation and is currently mapping and organizing the residents in order to expedite the survey process. 'Tree of Miracles' back at the Vinton Lutheran Home
The Vinton Lutheran Home Communities is once again sponsoring a "Tree of Miracles" for Benton Co. elderly shut-ins.
Please pick a tag off any one of our trees located at the Lutheran Home, Lutheran Assisted Living Apartments or Windsor Manor from now until Dec. 19th.
Each tag has a gift idea for someone who needs a little extra help this year to have a Merry Christmas. Jim Huber's framed poetry available at Clingman's
Jim Huber describes himself as a "scientist turned poet."
He wrote his first poem while still in high school; now his collection includes nearly 3,000.
Huber writes about history, farming and faith. He shares a poem most Sundays at Prairie Creek Christian Church. He has written poems for community milestones, such as the 75th anniversary of Farmers Savings Bank in Vinton. Grandson of sailor who served at Pearl Harbor leads memorial service
Alex Vasquez, at the end of the first Pearl Harbor Memorial Service at Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School several years ago, told the small crowd that day that as long as he is a teacher, he will lead such a ceremony every Dec. 7.
Mr. Vasquez, with the help of several eighth-grade students, continued that tradition on Tuesday, the 69th anniversary of the "Day of Infamy. Mount Auburn residents celebrate Christmas with Santa at Legion Hall
The annual Mount Auburn Christmas Party was held at the Mount Auburn Legion on Saturday, December 4.
Community members enjoyed coffee, cocoa, cookies and conversation.
Santa also arrived to share gifts with the children.