How many ways can you say, "Wow!"

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
July 12, 2011 8:32 am

Yesterday we woke at 4:30 to the sound of thunder, flashes of lightning, and a really loud roaring noise.  This is one time I hate living in the country.

Pastor's Blog - GOD DOES REMEMBER US

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
July 8, 2011 11:07 am

  Genesis 22:1-14 Isaiah 49:14-16 The labor pains begin all too early at 28 weeks of gestation, and little Maneesha, the subject of one of Anne Geddes photographs, comes into this world weighing in at just under one and a half pounds.

Possible solutions to the Debt Ceiling Crises

VINTON TODAY
July 8, 2011 10:58 am

  To The Editor:             It is difficult if not impossible to get through the “fog” that has enveloped the Debt Ceiling Crises.

The effect of performance-enhancing drugs on Congress

VINTON TODAY
July 7, 2011 10:57 pm

       Imagine the following news story from the year 2020:      "A federal grand jury has indicted dozens of members of Congress for using illegal performance-enhancing substances during what has been called the 'Season of Spectacular Success.

From agriculture to nature: A diary of an old farm

VINTON TODAY
July 7, 2011 11:29 am

     I remember it as the place where my grandfather had a corn crib when I was very young.     Then one day, when we went to see my grandparents, it was gone.

An important lesson to learn from the Casey Anthony trial

VINTON TODAY
July 6, 2011 10:42 am

      The defendant was guilty as sin.     He and his friends had been drinking; they got stuck in a ditch and asked an old farmer to help them late at night.

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance lesson

VINTON TODAY
July 3, 2011 3:48 pm

For your watching entertainment... I didn't know anything about Red Skelton, until a few years ago when I saw something about him.  Here's is a touching segment he shared in 1969 about the Pledge of Allegiance.

The patriotic mosquito poem

VINTON TODAY
July 3, 2011 9:51 am

       One of my favorite humorous poems has always been an 120-year-old ditty called “The Mosquito Hunt.”      The poem, from a book of poetry dated around 1860, tells of the story of a couple trying to kill a mosquito that threatened to interrupt their sleep with a painful bite.

Our Natal Day: A historic, poetic celebration of America and July 4

VINTON TODAY
July 3, 2011 9:48 am

       In a book that’s 120 years old published by a company that is no longer in business, by a poet of whom I never otherwise would have heard, is an incredible poem about the Fourth of July.

Pastor's Blog - GRACE IS ENOUGH

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
July 1, 2011 8:27 am

  Acts 17:22-31 I Peter 3:13-22 Have I ever told you how Tom and I met? It was in early November, 1976.  We were both substitute teaching at the same high school in a small, rural community in the thumb of Michigan.