July 2011

This Icon spotted this plate, obviously on a Cobra, at the Bluffton Wheels 'Fest.

Icon viewers:

God smiled on our 2011 Bluffton Sesquicentennial. For nine days we had good weather and four years of work proved to be a very successful event.

Thank you to each and everyone who assisted our Sesquicentennial Committee.

Do you think in 150 years our successors will honor us as we have our ancestors? Hopefully we will prove worthy.

Beverly Amstutz
Director, Sesquicentennial Committee

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Yesterday morning I asked my husband if he thought the dog's bug bites/rash were making him feeling crummy or if it was just the heat. His response?

"Well, it IS the dog days of summer." Groan.

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In the mood for a mystery? Then Monday's Bluffton Public Library movie with a novel destination is just for you. Monday's 2 p.m. movie title has not been announced by the library staff. The only thing known is that it's a "Mystery destination." The movie is free and open to the public.

The Bluffton Cattle Club and the Beaverdam Bunch 4-H clubs will hold a chicken barbecue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday at the Bluffton Middle School cafetorium. Both eat-in or carry-out is available. Tickets are $7.50 each. The proceeds will help support the Jr. Fair livestock auction.

John Gilbert

John W. Gilbert, 95 died at 9:03 a.m. July 22, 2011 at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. He was born Sept. 5, 1915 in Orange Township, Hancock County, Ohio to Melvin Leo and Nellie Gail (Beagle) Gilbert. On April 28, 1940 he married Ruth V. Cunningham and she died Feb. 6, 2007.

He was a farmer in Hancock County until 1950. He had worked at Triplett Electrical Instrument Company, Bluffton where he was a plant manager. He also worked for Breece and Yeasel in Jackson Center, Ohio and in 1976 incorporated his own molding business known as Associated Plastics in Pandora.

One of Bluffton's oldest summer traditions, which dates back to the 1920s, community vacation Bible school, starts on Sunday evening.

This year's VBS is held at Emmanuel United Church of Christ, 8375 Phillips Road. This year's VBS theme is "Inside Out and Upside Down on Main Street."

VBS is open to any elementary-aged youth in the community. VBS takes place Sunday, July 24 through Thursday, July 28. Each session starts at 6:30 p.m.

Two August meetings of the Bluffton Lions Club are scheduled.

Aug. 2 - Londel Smith, Lima city recreation director and teacher at Rhodes State will present the topic "Just Call it Crazy."

Aug. 16 - District Governor Barbara Plaugher will present a power point on Lionism for 2011-2012.

The meetings are held at noon at Maple Crest.

Bluffton Icon viewers may now access this month's Bluffton Lions newsletter. It is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

A June 12, 2012, wedding in either Alaska or Hawaii is planned for Deborah Augsburger of Bluffton and David Dobradenka.

Deborah is a Bluffton High School and Bluffton University graduate. She also holds a master's degree from Bluffton University. She is a corporate account executive for Kumho Tire.

David, of Shelby Township, Michigan, holds a bachelor's degree form Cleary Univerrsity. He is an account/quality manager at Kumho Tire.

Apollo Career Center's July board meeting is Monday, July 25. The agenda is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.

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