Letter to the Editor: SHOPKO USING VOO-DOO discounts

VINTON TODAY
March 15, 2019 9:50 am

Dear Editor,It looks like SHOPKO is using Voo-doo discounts in their final days. Please check your final payment when buying at Shopko. I recently tried to purchase some printer cartridges listed on the rack at 41.

Letter to the Editor: PSA of the day - “Be kind people.”

VINTON TODAY
March 15, 2019 7:26 am

Dear Editor,I called the county engineers office this morning. As soon as the lady on the other end of the phone answered and I started to speak I could tell she was bracing herself.

I can't believe it's been a year already

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 11, 2019 12:19 pm

I love Facebook memories.Well, sorta-ish.Today a memory popped up from Aunt Kathy's funeral which was a year ago today.I had posted this:'What's on my mind? My heart that is just bursting with pride with the awesome funeral we had today for an amazing little gal that was anything but little in her military career.

Some things don't change from generation to generation, fortunately

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 8, 2019 10:15 am

We finally celebrated Christmas, yes we did. In March.  Hey, I keep saying we need to adopt another holiday that's not so hectic like groundhog day or something.

The Joy of Email

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 6, 2019 3:14 pm

I've always been the one that wanted to sit at the feet of older people and just listen to their stories. Actually, I can remember doing that very thing at a couple's house, when I was a little child.

Breaker, breaker, this is Pink Sweater wishing you a fond farewell

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 6, 2019 8:31 am

I suppose to kids today, a CB radio is as foreign to them as a rotary dial telephone, well almost as foreign as a landline.My first introduction to a CB was back in the '70's.

The Hills are alive, with the sound of Hoof beats

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 28, 2019 8:30 pm

As I prepared to leave for tonight's City Council meeting I heard a bunch of rustling in my evergreen trees lining the front of my lawn just a few feet from my front door.

Iowa Donor Network Celebrates 25 years of Organ Donation: From a Donor Family

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
February 28, 2019 7:35 am

Almost 15 years ago. our family lost one of the best guys that I knew in the world, my father in law. At the time we were still recovering from a couple of other losses in the same branch of the family tree.

Letter to the Editor: Speak Up for the Little Ones

VINTON TODAY
February 19, 2019 12:49 pm

Dear Editor, For too long I have been silent on the topic of abortion. I consider and pray that our nation would value unborn lives, but I have felt a strong need to speak up and encourage others to also.

Letter to the Editor: Benton County should follow Vinton with Broadband

VINTON TODAY
February 14, 2019 6:51 am

Congrats!!!     To the City of Vinton and to the efforts by your publication in support of the affirmative vote on the broadband project.