February 2011

Carol Louise Jordan Edwards, 67 died at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 at her home in Bluffton following a month's illness.

She was born to James T. Sr. and Lenore L. Willauer Jordan on July 3, 1943 in Toledo, Ohio. The youngest of triplets, the Rev. Dr. Henderson L.V. Shinn at Grace Evangelical & Reformed Church, Toledo, baptized her with her brothers into the Christian faith. On May 29, 1966 she wed the Rev. Craig Edwards, who died on June 14, 2009.

Monday's flooding from the Main Street bridge looking toward the Buckeye

One thousand sand bags.

That's the number of bags created in advance and distributed throughout the village as a result of Monday's flood, according to Rick Skilliter, police chief.

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Pete Suter goes over final instructions Monday night on operating the Shannon Theatre's movies digitally

Pete and Kim Suter deserve an Oscar. The Icon may nominate them.

Click here for a video interview.

The Suters made Bluffton movie history on Monday night: They successfully converted the Shannon Theatre from 35 mm film to digital projection. Until Monday night, every film ever shown in a Bluffton theater, going back to the Carma and Star Theater (the Star showed silent movies), were on film.

"It's the biggest change ever in the film industry," said Pete in an interview with The Icon.

Bluffton council deferred its historic town hall mural project to the Bluffton sesquicentennial committee on Monday.

At the time that the town hall renovation project was completed Oscar Velasquez, Bluffton artist, approached the council with the suggestion that he create a historic mural to be placed inside the town hall. The mural would more than likely be placed in the lobby area of the third floor.

No action was taken at the time of the original discussion, however council indicated an interest in seeing that the project go forward.

The March Maple Crest calendar is available to Icon viewers. To see it, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

12 a.m. Vance and Jefferson

Where do things stand at 2:30 p.m.?

Who would have predicted it? The Big and Little Riley offered a quick and devastating encore of its August 2007 flood only 3 1/2 years later.

The combination of a 6-inch-plus snowfall on Friday teamed with high temperatures over the weekend spell FLOOD in Bluffton.

Story filed at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 28.

As the Icon continues to provide information on the flooding in Bluffton we invite viewers with photo to e-mail them to [email protected].

The Icon has created a flood photo folder. Please identify the photographer and any people in your photos. Send them as jpgs 72 to 300 resolution.

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Denny Morrison provide The Icon with this black and white snapshot. It is of Denny's father-in-law, Allan McCluer and Denny's wife Donna McCluer Morrison (sitting on the tractor). Also in the picture is Mr. Hardwick, operator of the Marathon station, which was located at the corner of Elm and Main. Today it is the A to Z Portion Meats buildling. Denny say he still has the can of oil that is being given to Al.

The March Bluffton Senior Citizens newsletter is now available on The Icon. To view it, open the pdf at the bottom of this story.

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