By Christian Steiner, MD Psychiatric Center of Northwest Ohio
“Who sees a psychiatrist anyway?” This is a common question I have been asked by many different people outside of my office. Many times, this question is brought up to me in social situations where the topic of mental health arises in passing. I often forget that psychiatry has a stigma as every day I encounter people from all walks of life who are seeking professional help for an array of different issues.
Happy leap year. The Icon talked with two Bluffton school students, Reagan Mittendorf, a Bluffton HS sophomore, and Evan Frideger, a second grader, who celebrate Feb. 29 birthdays. Those interviews follow:
Reagan • Click here to read her 2016 interview
Reagan Mittendorf will blow out either 4 or 16 candles on her birthday tomorrow.
Five Bluffton High School artists had works accepted in this winter’s Kewpee High School Invitational Exhibit. Two were award-winners in the show, which closes on Friday at ArtSpace/Lima, according to Vickie Garmon, high school art teacher.
Bluffton award winners follow:
• 3rd place painting awards, Danielle Novak, “Untitled
• 3rd place drawing awards, Nickolas Markowski, “Broken God”
Three other Bluffton art students had works accepted into the show. They are Seth Gladwell, Sophie Bricker and Kaitlyn Montgomery.
Amanda Wischmeyer from Little Riley Creek Farms will be speaking on planting onions and leeks at the next Gardeners of the Bluffton-Pandora Area meeting on Tuesday, March 3, at 6 p.m. in the library's lower level meeting room. Wischmeyer will share tips on how to successfully grow onions and leeks from seeds.
Wischmeyer and her husband Jon own Little Riley Creek Farm, which is a 40-acre, family-operated and certified organic farm located just outside Bluffton.
Greg Denecker, superintendent, will speak to the Bluffton Lions Club on Tuesday, March 3, at noon, at town hall. He will be discussing the school district. Denecker is himself a lions club member.
The meeting will also include a 50/50 charity raffle drawing. As of the Feb. board meeting, 270 of 300 tickets were sold for this raffle.
Several additional Lions news items are part of the March club newsletter attached at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton trash and recycle customers will have a new carrier beginning June 1.
Rumpke Waste and Recycling was awarded the bid as the village’s carrier during Monday’s council meeting. The current carrier, Republic, also submitted a bid and it was not accepted.
Council approved a three-year contract with Rumpke, who is Ohio’s largest recycler by volume. Customers will eventually have their current green and blue totes removed and replaced with totes from the new carrier.
By Cort Reynolds
DELPHOS - Two Bluffton boys received first team All-Northwest Conference basketball honors from league coaches in voting conducted at their annual selection meeting Monday night.
Senior Luke Denecker and classmate Mason Soper were each voted first team All-NWC.
Denecker became just the second Pirate male to surpass 1,000 points in his career this year before a knee injury ended his season.
Pirate senior Jared Piercefield was also named second team all-league.
