By Julie Russell, RD, LD, CDE Outpatient Dietitian/ Diabetes Educator
Blanchard Valley Diabetes Center
The holidays are a busy time of year, and it can be easy to get off track with your eating habits. Even though you get busy, don’t forget to take the time to eat throughout the day. When you skip a meal, it can lead to overeating at the next meal. Try to plan out your meals for each day or even better, the week. When you plan a meal, keep each food group in mind to ensure you get a balanced diet.
Arliss Dale Plaugher, 84, died Dec. 27, 2019, at Lima Memorial Health System. He was born Jan. 15, 1935 in Lafayette to the late Odie and Dortha (Kettimon) Plaugher. On Oct. 26, 1956, he married Barbara Hall Plaugher who survives.
Four boys' high school basketball teams, four university men's teams and four women's teams play in Bluffton in three tournaments involving 12 different games over a three-day period at the end of December.
McDonald's sponsors the three tournaments. The boys' games are in the Bluffton High School gym. The university games are in the Sommer Center.
Bluffton High School boys' McDonald's Holiday Tournament
BHS gymnasium
Friday, Dec. 27
Continental vs Arlington 6 pm
Bluffton vs CR 7:30 pm
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, joined by Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, MD, MPH, and OhioHealth Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Bruce Vanderhoff, MD, MBA, today offered resources to those looking to quit using tobacco products in the new year.
Bluffton Icon learned of the death this morning of Elbert Dubenion, Bluffton College's only student athlete to play football professionally. The Icon will post additonal details as we obtain them.
This story updated on Dec. 27.
Bluffton council met on Dec. 23, but with two members absent, was unable to pass several legislation pieces by emergency, to satisfy year-end requirements.
A special meeting is now set for 8 p.m., Monday, Dec. 30, to accomplish that, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.
The most pressing item is a three-month appropriations resolution covering Jan. 1 to March 30..
Had an interesting chat with Old Man Bluffton recently in Twisted Whisk.
He's the guy who sort of runs the town, or thinks he does. After all, it is his town.
Years ago he retired to warmer climes, and shows up in Bluffton announced, usually during the holidays to pick up on gossip and peanut brittle at the Senior Center.
He still think Larry Core is village administrator and I’m not about to straighten him out.
As expected, he did most of the talking, but then, when Old Man Bluffton talks, people listen.
Eden Nygaard, a Bluffton High School junior, was born on Dec. 25, 2002. Not knowing too many people with a Christmas Day birthday, we were curious how he spends the day. Here’s part of our interview:
Click here to read Ada Icon's interview with Madison Wright, an Ada HS senior, who also has a Dec. 25 birthday.
Kenneth W. Zuercher, 99, died Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, at Danbury Woods Assisted Living in Wooster.
He was born April 18, 1920, in Pandora, Ohio, the son of Ernest S. and Ida Kiene Zuercher. He married Betty J. VonGunten on Oct. 23, 1943, and celebrated 71 years of marriage. She preceded him in death on Oct. 31, 2014.
Kenneth graduated from Rawson High School in 1938, and from Findlay College in 1942, where he held basketball scoring records at both schools for many years.
The Icon posts the video again as a
reminder of how the Blaze of
Lights came to be.
When Bob and Sue Fett's daughter, Maggie, was a Bluffton High School junior she created a four-minute video featuring the Bluffton Blaze of Lights as a multi-media project.
The video was part of a Univerity of Findlay college credit class taught by Jamie Erford at BHS.
"The project focused on small-town nostalgia," said Maggie. "I thought the Blaze would be a great idea for this project."
