November 2010

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PARADE APPLICATION FORM CLICK HERE

RESIDENTIAL LIGHTS CONTEST FORM CLICK HERE

The 24th annual Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce Blaze of Lights is Saturday, Nov. 27. Here is the latest information about this year's festival.

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The Bluffton University Nutrition Association's annual spaghetti dinner is from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 12, at First Mennonite Church.

The event benefits the Lima-based Churches United Food Pantries (CUP). In addition to spaghetti, the menu includes salad, baguette, dessert and refreshments. For more information contact Alisha Byrne at [email protected].

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Mennonite Women, of First Mennonite Church, will meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8, in the church fellowship hall. The program is titled "Mission at home." Speaking will be Paula McKibben, Louise Wideman and Dr. Terry Chappell.

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Arline W. Wagner, 99, of Bluffton, died at 3:55 a.m., Nov. 8, 2010, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

She was born Nov. 18, 1910 in Dola, Ohio, to Willis and Myrtle Swartz Wolfe. She married Daniel W. Wagner and he died in 1980.Mrs. Wagner was a homemaker.

Survivors are a daughter, Norma Parent, Bluffton; grandson, Daniel (Denise) Parent, Aiken, S.C., granddaughter, Roxanne (Mark) Pool, Lexington, Ky. and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Donald, Dale and Robert Wolfe, and one sister, Kathryn Mills.

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Jim Barnett

Jim Barnett (BHS Class of 1969) is now a member of ADK46R, the select club for mountaineers who have scaled all of the 46 Adirondack Mountain peaks over 4,000 feet high. The club was started in the early 1920s after Robert and George Marshall published a book "The High Peaks of the Adirondacks" recounting their climbs. The pair believed that all the peaks they documented were 4,000 feet and over, but subsequent geological surveys have shown that 4 of the mountains are slightly less. The highest peak of the 46 is Mt. Marcy which is 5,344 feet.

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Icon viewers:

As you know, after the Blaze of Lights this fall, another big event is coming up. The 150 years of progress, Bluffton's sesquicentennial, will be held June 24 to July 2, 2011.

At the current time we need people to contact Terry Mullenhour and volunteer to design and embroidery a quilt square. She has the squares available and the information for the sesquicentennial quilt.

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The old adage "Sex, UFOs and Elvis" sells news better than anything, was proven wrong on Nov. 5 in Bluffton.

When a 6-buck decided to explore the inside of Luke's Bar and Grill on Main Street, it was like sex-ufos-elvis all rolled into one. As a result The Bluffton Icon had it highest-ever single view day.

After the clock struck 12 on the 5th here's the results:

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Belles & Beaux Scores bowled on Oct. 31
Men's High Game

Al Simon 257
Jon Burden 257
Greg Amstutz 236
John Dailey 235

Women's High Game
Steph Moore 223
Cathy Bugner 220
Cathy Bugner 216
Gina Bloomfield 206

Men's High Series
Al Simon 708
Jon Burden 655
John Dailey 647
Steve Swisher 636

Women's High Series
Cathy Bugner 619
Steph Moore 590
Pam Baker 556
Beth Diamond 508

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Luke's staff at the front window

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2,744 VIEWERS HAVE CHECKED OUT THE ICON ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

A six-point buck crashed through the front window of Luke's Bar and Grill, North Main Street, around 3 p.m., spent 30 seconds in the bar, and exited quickly from an open back door that Luke's employee Roy Rayl opened for it.

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Dining in the Ropp Hall basement in the 1930s
Note: Here's a brief history of one of the iconic buildings on the Bluffton University campus.

By Ariel Shuey, Bluffton Icon intern
Built in 1914 on the site of a hog farm and slaughterhouse, Ropp Hall at Bluffton University is now a home to more than 200 female students. The original four story brick building still stands to this day, although many changes have been made.

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