March 2017

A Celebration of Life memorial service for Tom Clark, formerly of Bluffton, will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, at Grace Church, 5504 E 146th St., Noblesville, Ind., with visitation beginning at 4:30 p.m. 

A graveside service will take place at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 24, at Maple Grove Cemetery in Bluffton.  For a complete obituary click here.

The Island Princess will be in Bluffton on Tuesday.

One of the family-friendly events at Tuesday's Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs awards night program is a visit from the Island Princess. Families with children are invited to come and take photos with the princess.

She will be in the Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main St., from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The event is BCE's awards night of its Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.

Adult indoor soccer league, 4th-6th grade volleyball, U6 soccer

Registration ends soon for three popular Bluffton Family Recreation spring programs, according to Joseph Beague, BFR director.

Here’s the details:

Adult competitive and recreational
indoor soccer leagues

Registration deadline: Sunday, March 26
League dates: April 2 - April 30
   (skip Easter Sunday weekend April 16th)
Time: Sundays from noon-9 p.m.
   (subject to change)
Cost: $360 per team
This is only a 4-week session unlike the other 5-week sessions.

Goes well with coffee and the NY Times Sunday Book Review section

Looking for something different, carrot custard pie jumped out of the book of pie recipes and stared me in the face.

I was too curious to turn the page. So, knowing there was a very large carrot in the ‘frig, I sort of followed the recipe, and am happy to present the Icon Carrot Pie.

Here’s what you need:

Jeff Brassell and Ethan Setiawan

Jeff Brassell and Ethan Setiawan will share the stage of the Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 23.

Wendy Chappell-Dick describes the musicians this way:

Brassell is a self-made singer-songwriter raised in Bluffton, who describes himself as a blue collar “regular kind of guy” and strives to reflect everyday life in his music.

An acoustic mandolin player, Ethan Setiawan  performs on mandocello and electric mandolin.

Here is the junior choir of St. John's United Church of Christ, Bluffton, photo taken for its 100th anniverstiy history book in 1973.

Names of choir members are listed under the photo.

The Icon spotted this plate in Ada on a black Volkswagon spotted near the Ada First United Methodist Church.

March 19, 2017

Women's Results  I  Men's Results

LEXINGTON, Va. - On Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th of March, the Bluffton University men’s and women’s teams opened their outdoor campaign at the Washington & Lee Track & Field Carnival with a bang, bringing home two event champions, a host of qualifiers for upcoming championship meets, as well as a number of personal-record performances.

Public invited to view constant displays and sample desserts from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will award cash prizes and gifts-in-kind valued at $7,000 to winners of its Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition. The awards night, open to the public, is from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 21, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall. Winners will be announced at 7 p.m.

BCE calls this year's event Bluffton Oscars and Dessert Wars.

Will reconstruct and widen five miles

Ohio Department of Transportation released the following details of Interstate 75 construction around Findlay. The following impacts to traffic related to the reconstruction and widening of Interstate 75 through Findlay and Hancock County are scheduled to occur in the coming weeks:
 
Interstate 75 Findlay
 

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