Pastor's Blog: FORGIVENESS...Forgiven...Forgiving

ZACH ZAJICEK
August 13, 2013 9:04 am

Ever feel like you screw up constantly- like all the time?  That’s my world.  Days come and go, and it feels like I’m still the same loser I was last year.

A message for the Iowa State Fair Butter Cow vandals

VINTON TODAY
August 12, 2013 12:28 pm

To: The people who painted the Iowa Butter Cow Red this past weekend, (as well as to whoever it was who put the "Go vegan" message on the Butter Cow at the State Fair in 2011): Congratulations! Your feat was pretty impressive.

The wisdom to find Serenity when GPS is your guide

VINTON TODAY
August 8, 2013 9:22 am

Like just about everyone else who makes a living working with computer-related technology, I both love and hate it. I love the career opportunities it has given me; I hate it for its frequent, exasperating pranks.

We're all in this together; how cooperation matters in Cedar River Valley

LARRY STONE
August 5, 2013 5:16 pm

From catastrophic floods in 2008 to record drought and low flows in 2012 - Is it any wonder that we still don’t know what to expect from our rivers? But maybe we’re learning.

Letter to the Editor - The Affordable Health Care Act – Is Affordable?

JOHN STIEGELMEYER
July 30, 2013 11:53 am

If ACA is such a good deal, how come private sector unions, government sector unions, Congressional  Staff, large corporations all request or have been granted a “carve out”?  (Many Unions have Cadillac plans that have been gained through years of contract negotiations – they do not want to give in to this government mandate, and give up the gains made over decades of negotiations.

Yes, we are probably related...

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 29, 2013 12:07 am

...sorry if that makes you cringe... Our daughter left to be a camp counselor in Tennessee two months ago. She called a few weeks later to tell me that one of the other counselors there said she had only been to one small town in Iowa, a town called Vinton! Of course, our daughter went nuts, she just couldn't believe it.

The aroma and tastes of childhood I will remember at Celebration Park

VINTON TODAY
July 18, 2013 9:34 am

Standing in front of the old white house at the corner of 2nd Street and A Avenue, I could almost smell the aroma of tobacco from Uncle Hugo’s pipe.

The Zimmerman case, and the right to get out of the way

VINTON TODAY
July 15, 2013 3:55 pm

While teaching my kids to drive, I tell them, “You sometimes have the right of way. You always have the right to get out of the way.” This lesson also applies to life -- and the big story in the national news this week.

The rise of the psychopathic machines

VINTON TODAY
July 13, 2013 2:47 pm

Psychiatrists say that people who think machines are out to get them are suffering from some form of mental disorder. But they only say that because some machine is telling them to.

'Our Natal Day,' The world's best July 4 poem

VINTON TODAY
July 3, 2013 11:48 am

Years ago, I bought some old (late 19th century) books at a book sale for an organization in Independence. One of those contained the following poem, written around Centennial of our country.