Events And Activities

Vinton Unlimited is excited to host A Taste of Vinton this Saturday, May 30th. Begin your Taste of Vinton journey at Celebration Park where you will check-in, receive your passport & other goodies. You will then travel throughout the Vinton community sampling a variety of products including beer, wine, ice cream, desserts and dips, all available for purchase right here in our community!  Taste of Vinton stops include Fareway, Cameron’s, Henkle Creek, The Hope Chest, L Marie Boutique, Rabe Hardware, Clingman Pharmacy, Tootsie’s Ice Cream, LaGrange Pharmacy, Jessy’s Gems & The Vinton Guild of Fine Arts.

Vinton Unlimited is excited to host the ‘Taste of Vinton’ for the 3rd year. The experience begins at Celebration Park where you will check-in, receive your passport and other information. You will then travel through the Vinton community sampling a variety of products while comparing notes and learning about each selection by our experts! Each sample item is available for purchase right in Vinton! The event will end with a FREE concert in Celebration Park by the Craig Erickson Band! Don’t forget your lawn chairs! Please check out the ‘Taste of Vinton’ page on Facebook and be sure to share it with your friends! To register, click HERE.

Brenda Corey, Environmental Health Officer with the Black Hawk County Health Department will be in Vinton on Wednesday, May 27 at 6:30pm in the basement in Farmers Savings Bank to answer any questions about the required food permit needed for all RAGBRAI vendors. Anybody may attend this meeting and attendance does not obligate your organization to a RAGBRAI booth.

Amateur radio operators from the Cedar Valley Amateur club, Eastern Iowa DX association and the Rockwell Collins Amateur Radio Club will be joining forces to participate in an international practice emergency communications event termed Field Day 2015 June 27 & 28 at Faye Clark Park in Hiawatha. Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary amateur radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur Radio.

[VIDEO] Have you heard the phrase, "if you don’t use it, you lose it?" Don’t let this happen to your child’s education this summer! "CSI: Vinton" is a fantastic opportunity to keep your children’s academic skills alive during the summer. Christian Summer Institute (CSI) is OPEN TO ALL children entering 1st-5th grade and is a Christ-focused and educational setting.

The Vinton-Shellsburg Health Careers classes blood drive, it is June 10th from 1:00pm-6:00pm in the middle school commons. For more information, email: amandab82498@gmail.com

VINTON GARDEN CLUB APRIL 29, 2015 The Vinton Garden Club member of National Garden Club, Inc., District II and Central Region met at 1:00 pm, April 29th, 2015 at Luanna Hawkins home. Our speaker was David Gates, he gave a interesting talk on the “care and planting of bulbs, tulips, dahlias, glads, calla lilies etc. President Fran Stueck called the meeting to order at 2:00 pm.

The Center Point Historical Society Depot Museum will open for the season Sunday, June 7, with a free Player Piano Party from 2 to 4. Refreshments will be served. The expanded “Home Front—the Forties” special exhibit will be on view. Guests may play the 1923 player piano themselves and also listen to local pianist Jeanette Elgin play.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church (1206 C Ave) is holding Vacation Bible School on Sunday, May 31st from 10:30-1:00 and June 1,2, and 3 from 5:30-8:00. All kids from PreK-5th grade are invited to join us!  Contact Rachel at youth@bethlehemvinton.org for more information or registration materials. Our theme this year is G-FORCE ADVENTURE PARK where the kids will discover an interactive, energizing, Bible-based program that will give them an opportunity to experience God’s love in action.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church at 1206 C Ave is having a bake sale this Saturday, May 16 from 9-12. The proceeds are going towards sending 7 kids and 2 adults from Bethlehem to the Youth Gathering in Detroit Michigan in July. The ELCA Youth Gathering for high school-age youth takes place every three years and is about faith formation, worship, study, fellowship, service and play.