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Courthouse lights: 4,000 bulbs on 2,000 feet of string
Vinton city workers spent much of Monday morning placing 40 boxes of Christmas lights on the two large evergreen trees on the south side of the courthouse lawn.
Those lights will go on for the first time this Thursday evening, when Santa arrives after the annual Veterans Patriotic Christmas Parade.
Jeff Kenney and Mark Smith did the stringing of the lights, assisted by colleagues on the ground. Friends of the Shelter get new sign
Julie Havran holds Peeka at an Adoption Event at PetSmart in Waterloo in front of the new sign for Friends of the Shelter made possible through Allegra (Cedar Rapids, IA) Footprint Fund. Find out more about Peeka and all her adoptable friends by visiting www.Pawsforfriends.com. American Education Week
American Education Week from Vinton Shellsburg
VGH Initial Tree Lighting set for Nov. 18, after parade and Santa's arrival
After you salute area residents for their military service during the second annual Veterans Patriotic Christmas Parade; and after you’ve taken your youngsters to see Santa and watch the lighting of the Christmas trees at the Benton Courthouse, you still have one more community holiday event to share with your neighbors
The Tree of Lights Initial Lighting at the VirginiaGayHospitaltakes place at 7 p. Ohlsen retires from Farm Bureau, but plans to go to college again
For 26 years, Frank Ohlsen has been a mentor to those who have struggled with alcohol and drug abuse issues.
Now that he is retiring from Farm Bureau, Ohlsen's main goal is to do more to help those people.
"I'm going to get some schooling," Ohlsen said Friday afternoon, during his retirement reception at the Benton County Farm Bureau office. Dollars for Scholars greenery adorns downtown for Christmas
The Vinton-Shellsburg students, including National Honor Society and FFA members, with the help of some teachers and adult volunteers, placed greenery throughout downtown Vinton on Saturday, as many retailers participated in the annual Dollars for Scholars fund-raiser. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, just in time for Thursday's patriotic Christmas parade and the arrival of Santa Claus. Fun at the Library....Website!
We get a lot of e-mail at the Vinton Today, usually the news items to share, are the run of the mill things.
Friday we got an email from our ever so kind, Virginia "The Librarian" Holsten. She sent along a link to the Library's website as well as a note about some new features on there.
Just go to: http://vintonlibrary.
Hospital receives donation in honor of Barb Becker Guillory
Even when she was terminally ill, Barb Becker Guillory thought of others. She was concerned about other patients, as well as the nurses who cared for her during her sickness.
After her death, Barb’s widower, Glenn wanted to share with others in the way that Barb would have.
Guillory presented the hospital a donation that will pay for a device to make it easier and safer for nurses to move immobile patients at the hospital. School Board Agenda for 11/15
Vinton-Shellsburg CSD
School Board Meeting
Monday, November 15, 2010, 7:00 PM
Central Office Board Room
1502 C Ave.
Vinton, IA 52349
6:15 – PPEL/Finance Workshop
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call / Pledge of Allegiance
3.
Iowa's 'Goose Man' bringing his flock to Party in the Park
"The goose is booked."
That play on words came from a Vinton Parks and Recreation Board member Thursday morning as the board discussed one of the entertainment for Party in the Park 2011.
The Gooseman is coming.
Paul Messerschmidt -- a former western Iowa school classmate of two Vinton residents, VPRD Board President Jeff Peterson and Bob Noren -- will bring his flock of trained geese to Vinton in late June.