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Mount Vernon High School Musical “Seussical” next week

Jeff Schmatt — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:29:43 +0000

Last week I had the pleasure of helping the Mount Vernon Theater students with photos to create their poster for their Spring musical. As you can see from the final product this is going to be a fun and very colorful production. Thanks to our community sponsors for their support of poster. Transformation Fitness, Iowa Physical Therapy, Mount Vernon Chiropractic, The Skillet Cafe, Dance Arts Iowa, Mount Vernon Massage, and Big Creek Market, without this support we would not be able to produce posters that will help draw in an audience. The posters will hit the streets today and tickets are on sale at Shepley Pharmacy, and the MV High School Officee

We are also helping the Theatre Department with a fund raiser. The public will have an opportunity to get their picture taken with a camel and a ga-zat (a goat painted in Seussian colors, courtesy of the Minor family farm) in the east Middle School parking lot from 6:15-6:45 before all three performances. Rubicon Photo is generously providing this service to help them raise funds for a new lighting board.

Get out and support our talented youth and the arts!

Congratulations to the Mount Vernon Boys Basketball Team ! 2A STATE CHAMPIONS!

Jeff Schmatt — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:26:24 +0000

Congratulations to all the Young Men on the Mount Vernon Boys Basketball team! What an awesome final championship game! Your hard work and determination earned you a well deserved STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Trophy! I want to comment on a few things about this team. Firstly, it is rare to have five seniors on a team and ever rarer that they have played together for so many years. Second the leadership of Jacob Timm makes me proud to live in Mustang Country. Jacob leads his team in prayer before and after every game! and since I am also privileged enough to attend The Mount Vernon United Methodist Church with his family makes this victory very special. The grit of this team is incredible overcoming several obstacles this year and maybe have that mirrored in the Championship game seemed like a message from God; To always keep fighting and keep the faith. Despite the point deficit in the Championship game they kept the faith and stayed to their game plan and earned the victory. The lesson I came away with from this game as the true meaning of sports seems to be getting lost and we idolize our athletes but we should be thanking God for the lessons that sports teach us through our athletic competitions, and use the lessons on the courts/fields to help us over come our obstacles that we face in our day-to-day lives!

Great win tonight for Mount Vernon Boys Basketball team !

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:44:55 +0000

Congratulations to the Mount Vernon Boys Basketball team for their decisive win tonight over North Cedar! Good luck on Thursday for round 2 !

attention Youth. Youth IGNITE event set for February 17th at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church

Jeff Schmatt — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:11:59 +0000

Youth IGNITE is coming together for a special evening. A FREE Hawaiian Luau Pizza party before a FREE viewing of the movie “Soul Surfer”. The event will be held at the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. Special musical Guest PARTY on 13th, prior to the movie. Donations and Volunteers who want to help with the event can contact me at 319-895-8776 or jeff@rubicon-photo.com

Happy New Year from Rubicon Photo

Jeff Schmatt — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:58:29 +0000

Just wanted to put up a quick post wishing all of you a Happy New Year, and wishing everyone to have

Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness in 2012.

A few sample photos from Santa’s visit to Rubicon Photo

Jeff Schmatt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:53:00 +0000

We had a great day with Santa last week as he made a stop at our studio. Here are just a few sample photos from this special event. Thanks for visiting our blog and we wish you a very Merry Christmas! and a Prosperous New Year!

Santa Claus is coming to Rubicon Photo Sat Nov 19th

Jeff Schmatt — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:54:44 +0000

We have made special arrangements for Santa to visit our studio on Saturday November 19th from 9 am until 1 pm. We are booking private sessions with Santa every 10 minutes so please call today for your appointment 319-895-8776. Appointments are already going fast and I have just begun promotions.

We will have special portrait gift giving packages. So avoid the lines at the mall, or at company Christmas parties and we will help create a heirloom portrait not just a snap shot with your child and Saint Nick. Enjoy Hot Cocoa and cookies after your session too.

Mount Vernon Football Game Photos

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:41:38 +0000

Friday Night Lights! one of the things I love about living in a small town is Home Football Games! This year started out with an exciting game against the Marion Indians, who used to be my arch rivals when I attended Linn-Mar ( Class of 1984) so now living in Mustang territory the Indians are still foes at least on the game field,–still have lots of friends and great clients from Marion. This year is the 2nd annual Mustang Football Game action photo fundraising program. This program is a Win for Mustang Fans as families of players can get professional action photos that they would be extremely difficult to capture without our help, a Win for the Mustang Football program as we donate 10% of the sales back, and a WIN for me in that I know who is interested in getting photos of their student athlete, and I can focus my lens on them.

There is still time to get “vested” in the program you have until our 2nd home game on Sept 16th which is Homecoming game too. To get in the program you must buy 1 gift card for $50 by 9-16. Call us for the money back guarantee and other details. Plus with your gift card purchase you get 10% gift bonus to spend. Plus we honor your Mount Vernon Football Program card, making it very affordable to get actions of your sports star!

Here are a few highlight photos from the Marion Game! Great job Mustangs very proud of your first game!

you can go to our Online Gallery to enjoy or order your reprints of the game at this link Mt Vernon Vs Marion

Special Women’s Self-Defense Class offered this Sunday 7-31-11

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:30:12 +0000

While I am primarily a photographer one of my other passions is martial arts. Specifically I enjoy teaching Tai Chi, but also teaching others how to defend themselves. I believe I have some very simple self-defense moves that anyone can do to defend themselves. A few years ago I came across JustYellFire.com from seeing an report on Good Morning America. I was so impressed with the video young Dallas Jesup had created and physical strategies so much I went and did a certification process to teach women their techniques which should really be called self-preservation techniques more then self-defense. I encourage all high school or college bound women to attend this class. Thanks to my sponsors of Elliott’s Uptown Fitness

Iowa Physical Therapy

Transformation Fitness

their sponsorship helped me keep the class fee low as possible to help get this information out.
Due to the nature of the information presented at this class this class is for young women high school age and up. I do have a female instructor assisting me in this training Allison Scheer a member of the Transformation Fitness staff. Please call me for a reservation or if you have any questions about this class. It would be helpful if you attend to watch the JustYellFire.com free video you can watch/download online.

Next MV/L Youth IGNITE

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:05:36 +0000

Here is a flyer for our next Mount Vernon and Lisbon Youth IGNITE! Hope to see lots of area Youth to attend these fun evenings of fellowship and faith. All Youth welcome ages 12-19. Make sure to check out this weeks The Mount Vernon and Lisbon Sun for an article on what Youth IGNITE is about and the fun we have had together this summer. It is great to see the Youth of MV/L join together and create these events with the assistance of adults from a variety of area Churches!