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Pastor's Blog - Mardi Gras or Easter – Choose

  Mardi Gras or Easter – Choose   Many of you probably know that the Tuesday just prior to Ash Wednesday is called ‘Fat Tuesday’ or in French, ‘Mardi Gras’.
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Brad Wines

  Wine has an image problem.   Few beverages can make me feel as incompetent, uninformed and undeserving as wine.  It’s almost as if the wine bottle on the shelf is teasing me with its nearly indecipherable label, unintelligible grape names, and ancient etiquette and protocols passed down through the ages.

Why we did not cover the news that did not happen

  There is just one reason why we at Vinton Today did not write about the threat of armed intruders that led to students coming home to tell their parents that they had heard about an armed intruder in Vinton, and to wide-spread worry throughout the town on Wednesday: It did not happen.
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Backyard Reporting

Sometimes I still have to laugh at our lack of common sense.  As I've admitted before, we are city folks, just living in the country.  For decades the Closes and the Stainbrooks have lived next to each other lending a hand whenever one is needed.
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Pastor's Blog - Reflections on Valentine’s Day

So Valentines Day has come and gone.  And, just like every other year, I heard several complaints, rants, and rages against the whole idea.  Most of them are quite amusing!  The complaints fall into several basic categories.

Speechless (even in space) on Valentine's Day

  The astronauts and other experts in that field are currently testing new hi-tech communication devices, which will soon be deployed on the International Space Station.

Pastor's Blog - Groundhog Day

  On Feb. 2, a big event happened in a little town in Pennsylvania. At 7:25 a.m., Punxsutawney Phil (a groundhog) saw his shadow amongst partly cloudy skies.

Grandpa learns that it's time to 'cowboy up'

  Sooner or later it was bound to happen. After two years of blissful, virtually stress-free grandparenthood, I had a bad day yesterday.