Events And Activities

  The Benton County Fair will be held one week later next year from July 25th - July 29, 2012. The same carnival "Sam's Amusements will be entertaining.   Mark it on your calendar now!

7:15 a.m., Central Office, 1502 C Ave., Vinton, IA 52349   1. Call To Order 2. Review 2010-2011 Expenditures 3. Review Budget 4. 2011-2012 Priority Areas 5. Set next meeting date Agenda 6. Adjorn

  Kirkwood Community College presents its sixth annual Constitution Day program on Friday, September 16, 2011, in celebration of the United States Constitution and its varied and diverse influences on our lives. This day also celebrates those who have become citizens through naturalization, or by coming of age, thus echoing one of Kirkwood’s designated general education goals: “Students will recognize the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

  Day and night sessions at Kirkwood to accommodate more participants On Wednesday, Sept. 21, a Kirkwood Community College recreation facility will be transformed into a “higher education shopping mall,” in two different sessions. 1,200-1,500 prospective students and their parents can compare many college choices in one location.

Vinton area veterans will lead a 9/11 ceremony at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Benton County courthouse in Vinton. They will line up at the  new jail and march with the firemen pulling the old pumper to the front of the courthouse. There will be a brief ceremony.  Everyone is invited.

  Spencer's Grove Church, rural Walker, is holding a 9-11 Memorial Service on 9-11.  Attached is a flyer with the necessary information.    Please contact Sharon Koopman, 1306 G Avenue, Vinton, IA. 52349, with any questions.  319-472-3622

     The Seventh Annual Todd Frank Guitar Jam, also called the "Idiot Jam," will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 10, at the Vinton-Shellsburg high school auditorium, at  218 W 21st St in Vinton. There will be a free will offering to benefit the Vinton Area Dollars for Scholars. This is a nationwide assembly of people who have traveled to Vinton to put on a concert for the public,      This group started with an acoustic guitar player in Minnesota meeting another player from Wisconsin, who introduces him to yet another from Indiana.

  PEO Chapter HG will meet Monday, September 12th at 6:30 p.m.         at the home of Cindy Elwick. THios will be a salad supper         followed by the regular business meeting.

The Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources will be hosting a hunter education course at the Izaak Walton League north of Vinton.  The course will be two days beginning on Saturday September 17th and ending on Sunday September 18th.  Students 11 years of age and older are allowed to attend the classes.  Students should go the www.

  Center Point Friends of the Library is hosting a beginning couponing workshop Sunday, October 2, at 2 p.m. in the Library basement. The $10 fee covers the class and couponing starter kit. Seating is limited to 40 and registration is due by Monday, Sept. 26. The afternoon will begin with an introduction to couponing, then a question and answer period followed by refreshments, idea and/or coupon swapping and socializing.