The legend of the accursed camera

VINTON TODAY
May 16, 2012 11:57 am

  I do not believe I am superstitious. I do not think that what I do in any particular area of life has an impact on any other area. I ignore Friday the 13th.

Pastor's Blog - So, What Does it Say About Me if I Am Last?

PASTOR MARK AND LUANN URLAUB
May 12, 2012 2:55 pm

  I noticed in a local publication a list of the names of the 2012 Graduates of Vinton-Shellsburg High School with an invitation to sponsor a senior in a future edition.

Pastor's Blog - Hacking at Golf

PASTOR JIM BLAIR
April 26, 2012 12:50 pm

  My children and grandchildren dragged me out to a local golf course a couple of weeks ago. You know – one of those fantastic summer days in the middle of March.

Pastor's Blog - 'He could have given up!'

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
April 20, 2012 8:21 am

  I Corinthians 13:7   Love Endures All Things Jesus, who was one with God, infinite and all powerful, could have called it quits when he found out he was to be confined to the finite space of a womb and the weakness and frailty of a human body.

10 years...

VINTON TODAY
April 19, 2012 9:03 am

Venus was looking over my shoulder. I wonder what Grandpa would have thought of that. I am sitting, right now, on the concrete slab that when I was born was used to support the metal framework of a corn crib.

A sad reminder of what opponents have in common

VINTON TODAY
April 17, 2012 12:13 pm

  This afternoon, when the Vinton-Shellsburg boys track team travels to the Solon track meet (although the event is being held in Tiffin due to construction on the Solon track), it will be encountering a city, and a school district, in mourning.

Letter to the Editor-New taxes coming

JOHN STIEGELMEYER
April 11, 2012 12:43 pm

  New taxes coming with the Affordable Health Care Act: (1) Individual and employment mandates to purchase health insurance. (2) Medicare Payroll tax hike from 2.

Pastor's Blog: The beauty of worshipping together during Holy Week

REV. JIM BLAIR, BLESSED HOPE CHURCH
April 10, 2012 11:13 am

              I would like to compliment each and every person who got up early to attend one or more of the ecumenical Holy Week services here in our city of Vinton.

Pastor's Blog - Easter Sunday and the Resurrection of the Dead

ZACH ZAJICEK
April 5, 2012 7:15 pm

  Have you ever heard the phrase, “Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales”?  There’s even a song titled with this phrase.  I’m not sure how popular the song is (the song I viewed on YouTube only had 132 hits), but I’m quite sure that thoughts of death and the dead are not popular.

A grandfather's moment to celebrate nature and progress

VINTON TODAY
April 4, 2012 9:43 am

  Ari (short for Arianna) got halfway across the bridge and sat down. It was a moment this grandpa has been dreaming of for years. Nobody noticed in the spring of 2003, shortly after I arrived in Vinton, that I had begun clearing the brush and weeds from the woods and pasture of the area we still call "Grandpa's farm, although he's been gone for almost 10 years.