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Meet the Candidate: Rich Hainstock

Editor's Note: As the City Election approaches, we invited all candidates for Mayor and City Council to share information about them and their views with our readers, in their own words.
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Meet the Candidate: Dixie Meyer

Editor's Note: First Ward council candidate Dixie Meyer was unable to attend the candidate forum due to a work commitment, so we invited her to share information about herself and her thougths on city issues, in her own words, here.

Meet the Candidate: Dakota Rundlett

Editor's Note: We invited the two men who announced write-in campaigns for the 3rd Ward Vinton City Council seat to share information about themselves and their thoughts on city issues, in their own words.
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VGH Imaging Department observes National Radiologic Technology Week

In 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen invented the x-ray. He continued experiments by placing several different objects between a tube and a screen. At one point, he held a lead pipe up to the ray and saw the bones of his fingers on the screen.

Hotel/Motel Tax Q&A

Dear Vinton Residents, The City of Vinton has placed a 7% Hotel/Motel Tax question on the upcoming election ballot that will be decided on November 7, 2017.

"Fall Back" by Checking Home Carbon Monoxide Detectors

As Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend (November 5, 2017), Melissa Smith, RN, BSN,Director of Virginia Gay Home Health/Benton County Public Health shares this message from the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) urging Iowans to install new or check existing carbon monoxide (CO) detectors as they turn back their clocks.

Proposed Hotel/Motel tax Explained

Dear Vinton Residents, The City of Vinton has placed a 7% Hotel/Motel Tax question on the upcoming election ballot that will be decided on November 7, 2017.