October 2015

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Pandora Missionary Church presents Daddy and Daughter Date Night, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 15, at the church on State Route 12.

The event is programmed for girls ages 4 through 6th grade. The evening includes entertainment, a dinner and a keepsake photo.

If fathers are unable to attend, an uncle, grandfather, older brother or father figure is welcome to participate.

Tickets are $25 per couple and $5 for each additional daughter. Tickets are on sale at Riley Creek Pharmacy, Pandora.

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By Sam Brauen
For the 12 Pirate seniors, there was no better way to walk off Harmon Field than with a big win under their belts.  Bluffton dominated Crestview 41-28 to move to 6-3 and keep their playoff push alive.  

Bluffton is now 6-3 and ninth in the most recent OHSAA computer rankings.  The top eight teams make the postseason. The Pirates will look for win number seven at Columbus Grove Friday.

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Dale and Etta Jo Huber will celebrate 65 years of marriage with an open house reception for friends and family.

The reception is Sunday, Nov. 8, from 2:30 to­ 4:30 p.m. at Ebenezer Mennonite Church, 8905 Columbus Grove Road, Bluffton.

Dale Huber and Etta Jo Maynard were married on Jan. 21, 1951, at 10th Avenue Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio, by Dr. Harry Ford.

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Bluffton voters have a chance to make an educated decision on who to vote for in Bluffton’s mayoral race on Nov. 3.

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce invites voters to a mayoral candidate forum at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium. Door open at 7 p.m.

Three candidates seek the mayor’s office in the Tuesday, Nov. 3, general election. The winner’s term begins Jan. 1, 2016. Candidates are Judy Augsburger, Jerry Cupples and David Steiner.

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By Monty Siekerman 

From the Ada Icon - That's David "Rico" Rodriguez waving from the cupola of Van's Corner at State Route 235 and Old Route 30 located north of Ada.

He's showing all Icon readers the major work that has been done on the building in recent weeks to turn the structure into a family restaurant called Cherico's.

Several historical parts of the building have been retained, such as the pine floor and cupola.

The photo shows an expanded dining area with the roofline extended on three sides for open air-dining.

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October, November and December night time skies are worth watching. 

On the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 28, there will be a triple conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and Mars in the eastern sky. The three planets will form a tight, 1-degree triangle. It is an easy event to enjoy with the naked eye.

The Ohio Northern University Observatory, Ada, has several fall and winter programs planned related to the nighttime skies. Those programs follow:

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BREAKFAST STARTS AT 8 a.m.
We are open for breakfast at 8 a.m., Tuesday-Friday and serve breakfast all day.

OCTOBER 27-30 LUNCH SPECIALS
Served from 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

TUESDAY
Cauliflower soup
Ultimate veggie wrap
Steak sub
BLT sub

WEDNESDAY
Chicken spinach soup
Michael's perch platter
Pastrami sub
Caesar salad

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Here’s an easy and quick recipe from the Ada sesquicentennial cookbook from 2002. It’s just in time for all those apples you don’t know what to do with.

Apple Crisp
Recipe from Marie Snyder

5-6 apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
1 cup sugar
1 cup minute oats
1/3 cup flower
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 stick butter

Chop apples and place in deep pie pan. Mix dry ingredients and pour over apples. Cut up butter and dot over apples.

Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until bubbly.

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For viewers who don't have a look back memory to 1967, this is a very unfamiliar Bluffton  scene.

It is, in fact, South Main Street, Bluffton.  Dick Boehr took the photo on Sept. 1, 1968.

Here's the view:

• Far right, Citizens National Bank in a remodeling phase (not the current brick one, but one prior to it).

• Center, Millager's Pharmacy. Millager's eventually became the site of CNB expansion.

• Far left, West Ohio Gas Company. It, too, eventually became the site of CNB expansion.

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Sidney (Alex Parker, a Bluffton University senior from Alger) makes a point to his bride, Henrietta (Amanda Bartel, a senior from Iowa City, Iowa), in a scene from the Bluffton production of “Smash,” which opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 29) in Ramseyer Auditorium in College Hall.

The Jeffrey Hatcher comedy of manners will also be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

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