Lessons in news photography

VINTON TODAY
May 21, 2013 8:04 am

I've been asked to teach the basics of photography to some area teens. I enjoy this part of my job -- sharing what I know (or think I know) with others, especially the people we call "kids.

Pastor's Blog - PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
May 17, 2013 11:06 am

  The show, "Neat," on the ION network has inspired me to get back to a regular practice of going through my stuff and organizing it by the "keep, give away, toss or recycle" method.

Fantasy Explorers: Why men REALLY refuse to ask for directions

VINTON TODAY
May 16, 2013 7:57 am

  “Why are we going this way?” “Where are we going?” “Why can’t we just go the way we always go?” I have heard these questions countless times from my kids in the back seat.

The Prayer of Mike: 10 words of wisdom from an Iowa farmer

VINTON TODAY
May 13, 2013 8:21 am

Every so often, a new prayer craze catches on among American Christians. Someone writes about a new or newly re-discovered way to find God, or at least talk to him.

Pastor's Blog - SATURDAY MORNING

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
May 10, 2013 12:06 pm

  There are other things I'd rather be doing on a Saturday morning, but duty calls ... The kitchen is threatening to produce a new life form unless I get a week's worth of dishes done and the chili disaster in the microwave cleaned up.

Pastor's Blog - FIRE AND WATER

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
May 3, 2013 12:37 pm

    Walt Disney's "The Lion King" opens as animals from all over the African savanna gather to meet a new prince, the recently born cub of the Lion King.

The three lists in every man's head (and heart)

VINTON TODAY
April 27, 2013 9:16 am

  "WHAT are we looking for?!?!?!?" A clearly-irritated female voice echoed across the aisle of a building supply store. I do not know the lady or her husband.

Re-inventing the domestic use of the wheel: The engineering most needed now

VINTON TODAY
April 23, 2013 8:06 am

Can I mow the lawn, Dad? Please!?!?!?! Can I mow the lawn NOW?!?!?!?! No, I was not dreaming. Youngest Kid – like most of her older siblings in previous years – was indeed pleading for permission to cut the grass.

LTE - Student Thanks Community for support

VINTON TODAY
April 16, 2013 11:51 pm

Hello everyone! I would like to take this opportunity to publically thank all of you in the community who supported my trip to Cuba, especially Blessed Hope Church.

Yet one more reason to remember America's original Patriot's Day

VINTON TODAY
April 15, 2013 6:23 pm

Today's bombings at the Boston Marathon took place during Boston's official "Patriot's Day" celebration, and just four days before the 18th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set of a large fertilizer bomb in a truck outside the Alfred P.