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Students visit fire station, ride trucks
The rain stopped just in time Tueday afternoon to allow the first grade students their ride on the fire trucks. School leaders had just decided to cancel the traditional Fire Prevention Week event when the rain ended, allowing the students the chance to see their school and other parts of Vinton from atop a fire truck. Three trucks full of first graders made their way from the school to downtown Vinton. 2011 OPUS Honor Choirs choose area students
Congratulations to eighth grade chorus members Abby Scheel and Caleb Kruckenberg who have been selected to sing in the 2011 OPUS Honor Choirs in Ames in November. More than 3000 students audition each year for a place in these choirs. We are proud to continue the tradition of having students from Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School chosen for this honor! Thank you to all
students who worked hard through the audition process.
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Somebunny lost a bunny??
There was a found bunny last night. He is shivering and cold as he spent the night outside last night. He was found in the 400 block of West 6th street in Vinton. I'm sure he is someones pet and would love to be reunited. We have put the bunny inside our garage as it may rain today. We have offered water and lettuce. Thanks so much! The owner may call me at work to make the claim. Vinton-Shellsburg High School participates in Augustana Chamber Choir Festival
Two hundred singers from eight schools across Iowa and Illinois will join together in making music at the sixth annual Augustana High School Chamber Choir Festival on October 16-17. Schools include: Byron (Ill.) High School; Elgin (Ill.) High School; Highland Community Schools (Riverside, Iowa); John Hersey High School (Arlington Heights, Ill.
VFD members give kindergarten students their first fire safety lessons
Stop, drop & roll.
Your family's meeting place.
Use the back of your hand to see if a door is hot.
Crawl -- don't walk -- out of a room filled with smoke.
Vinton-Shellsburg kindergarten students received some of their basic fire safet lessons from several members of the Vinton Fire Department Tuesday afternoo. Vikes of the week - De Vries and Vogt
Matt De Vries- (Ms. Hanneman)- Being responsible Hunter Vogt-(community member)-Helped another student who had collapsed during the home cross country meet. Ran back and finished it together.
Team Vinton joins Race Against Breast Cancer; fund-raising continues
Approximately 100 members of Team Vinton participated in the Especially For You Race Against Breast Cancer last Sunday in Cedar Rapids. Most of the participants are breast cancer surivors and their friends and family members.
As October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, continues, fund-raising for the new mammography unit at Virginia Gay Hospital also continues. School Board members discuss impact of countless mandates on public education
When Americans send their children to one of the nation's 100,000 public schools, they expect their children to get more than an education.
The list of demands that the public -- and state and federal governments -- have added to the public school system over the past century have complicated the educational process.
Benton County Sheriff's Report for September
Benton County Sheriff Randall Forsyth reports that deputies answered 257 calls for service and investigated 12 accidents. Deputies attempted to serve 168 civil papers and issued 132 traffic citations and 206 traffic warnings.
There were 34 arrests/juvenile referrals with 41 charges being filed in September 2011.