December 2020

So, you think you know Bluffton? Okay, where is this door handle?

Answer tomorrow.

Here are the Bluffton College resident advisors during the 1977-78 academic year.

Standing from left, Laura Becker, Kathy Gundy, Steve Steiner, Jeff Boehr, Sharon Prill, Jim Boyles, Dennis Mumaw and Dave Voth.

Seated from left, Laurie Diller, Ann Campati, Tom Engle, Kim Atkinson, Mike Heimann and Debbie Dermen.

Here's last week's Icon poll results. Take this week's poll asking "when a covid-19 vaccine arrives what will you do?"

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Tuesday paintINN and Thursday holiday wine tasting

Two special evening events this week at The Inn at ONU remain open for RSVPs, according to The Inn team.

Tuesday night PaintINN
A PaintINN provides artists an opportunity to create either  a snowman porch sitter or a cardinal winter scene on wood. You chose which project to create.

The Tuesday, Dec. 8, event begins at 6 p.m. and includes supplies, artistic instruction, a glass of wine, non-alcoholic beverages and buffet plus dessert.

Bluffton is among stops in Cambridge, Zanesville, Gallipolis, Hamilton, Middletown, Troy, Columbus, Hebron, Delaware, Marion, Upper Sandusky and Fremont.

Bluffton’s Blaze of Lights is one of 16 stops on the 2020 Ohio driveable holiday lights trail promoted by TourismOhio, according to Paula Scott, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce CEO.

"We have very prominent placement and a direct link to the chamber web page in the lights trail promotion," she added.

Judith A. Bloom-Miracle, 75, of Findlay and formerly of Bluffton died Dec. 6, 2020, at her residence. 

Judy was born Aug. 4, 1945, in Columbus, Ohio, to the late Raymond and Cathryn (Barry) Minnig. On April 27, 1963, she married Richard Bloom and he preceded her in death on Dec. 1, 2010.  She later married Benjamin Miracle on April 20, 2013. and he survives.

Former Bluffton resident and Trappist Monk at Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky

15 minutes with Brother Matthias, (Matt Meyer), brother of Tonya Meyer, director of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center and son of Basil Meyer of Bluffton.

Where did you graduate from high school?
I attended school in the Northeastern Local school district and graduated in 1981. Our family moved to Bluffton in 1984 and my younger brother and sisters attended Bluffton schools.

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A new book, “Bluffton Anthology – a creek runs through it,” with dozens of short essays about Bluffton, collected by Fred Steiner, is now on sale in several Bluffton  businesses:
• Roots by Strattons
• The Food Store
• The Black Lab
• Bluffton Senior Citizens Center
• Polished

“This collection brings together more than a dozen engaging writers whose own Bluffton experiences deserve retelling,” said Steiner.

Depicts the first log cabin in Shannon • Painted by Sante Graziani

Have you ever stood in line for stamps at the Bluffton post office and wondered why there is a mural on the lobby’s north wall?

Who was the artist and what does the mural portray? And, who paid for the mural?

In 1935, the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts sponsored an artist juried contest to help find artists for federal jobs. The Section of Fine Arts was all a part of the Work Progress Administration, better known as the WPA.

The Bluffton post office mural artist’s name is Sante Graziani. He painted the mural in 1941. It is an oil on canvas painting.

Weekend doctor

Dysphagia is an alarming symptom that requires prompt evaluation to determine the cause and to initiate treatment. It may be due to a structural or motility (movement) abnormality as solids or liquids pass from the mouth to the stomach.

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