Opinion
Thank you, again
First, before anything else, I want to say a great big, humongous THANK YOU to everyone who sent in checks and notes toward the website rebuild. We have crossed the 40% threshold and are on our way to 50% of the cost being covered so far. I do appreciate your continued giving toward this project. I always enjoy the sweet little notes that come with the donations.
Remembering Great Uncle Paul
Memorial Day kind of snuck up on me this year. It's the time of year that we SHOULD pause and be thankful for our veterans and service members that didn't return home. Sure, we usually make plans to hang out with our friends and family and just relax on our day off from work, but if we fail to take a moment to say, "Thank you," we've failed. I had to stop and think about the veterans in my family. A letter to the Class of 2021
There's a book called, 'Oh the Places you'll Go," by Dr. Seuss that talks about all of the paths that your life will take. It's a favorite gift for graduates. It's a pretty good book of course. It doesn't tell you about all of the twists and turns though.It fails to tell you that the best place you can be is right here, right now in your life. As much as you might think that life is rough at this point, or that you are overwhelmed by the choices that you need to make, trust me when I say, your life will never be less complicated than it is right now.
National Police Week May 9th-15th
It almost slipped by without any notice to the residents of Vinton. It's National Police Week. In general, if you're like me, and I've said it before if you see a police officer your foot automatically lifts off of the accelerator and you say something like, "Oh no, what is the speed limit here??" We completely forget that they are out there unless of course, we need them. Letter to the Editor: Living in the Present; remembering the past II
Memorial day 2021 It has been my honor and privilege to have been asked to speak before certain groups on Memorial Day – 2008, 2011, 2013. I recently looked up these documents stored on my computer. Each talk was slightly different, but the message was identical – remember the fallen. I am now in my December and know the end will come, but the day and hour will remain uncertain.
Spiders, Crawlers and Web Bots target Vinton Today
This week has been crazy! With the schedule picking up, I am getting a reminder of just how busy life can be when things are normal!Then someone had the great idea that THIS would be the perfect time to launch a new website. Many of you have been emailing, or calling, or texting concerning the site, wondering were we were, did we know we were down, where's my email and so I think it would just be easier to pass along an [upd] from our tech guy.
Dr. Seuss and Websites
I had forgotten that along with launching a new website, it might look good, function well and give you no problems, until you move the silly thing to the new home web address. I'd been looking at it and had been driving my web guy, who is the real brains behind the operation nuts with my many ideas and changing my mind on ideas.Today I was trying to explain what it was doing on my end of it.
Thank you from the Smith Family
"The
family of Sergeant Jim Smith would like to thank the Independence
community, our church families, citizens from across America, Iowa
COPS, Governor Reynolds and other leaders of this state, the Iowa
State Patrol and his brothers and sisters in blue for helping us
through this very difficult time. Your support was, and still is,
incredible as we navigate through life without our Superhero.
New Streets VS. New Internet Service
Updated: Service was restored at approximately 9:15 pm. For the second time, iVinton was hit by Boomerang Corp. as the two competed for underground space. Unofficial word is that Boomerang had cut service lines twice today. The first time along 10th St. The second time it has still been unconfirmed of where the cut has been made. However, it appears that it is on the 2nd Ave. Letter to the Editor: Thank You Vinton!
These past few days have once again reminded Julie and me how wonderful the people of Vinton are and have been for the past 32 years. We just sat down to relax after spending the past 3 hours reliving memories with old and new friends at Total Balance. It was a reception that we will always cherish as we [st] off to Dubuque. Our good friends at Bethlehem Lutheran, Tilford Elementary School, Vinton Unlimited, and countless close friends have also shared memories with us in their homes, along the street, or on Facebook.