Reviewed by Craig Hoffman
While life in 2020 has been full of masks, social distancing, and isolation, there will be a time soon when everyone will party again. Here are ten songs to help you plot out your return to real life and the dance club scene.
How are you going to enjoy your return to everyday life in the near future? Let the Icon know in the comment section!
Why is there a “curve” on Bentley Road just north of Bluffton where the road crosses Riley Creek?
There’s also a curve on Tom Fett Road and on Phillips Road at about the same location.
On Phillips Road it's a serious twist, instead of being just a curve in the road. That’s because the Tom Fett and Bentley “jogs” have been modernized. Phillips remains the same at it was when it was originally laid out.
The simple answer to the question in the opening sentence is that the earth is round and that the early surveyors were trying to run straight lines on a sphere.
Icon viewers:
The Bluffton and Ada Icon web host, Webfaction, went off line for about 6 hours on Sunday. The Icons were also off line during that time. We came back on line at 10:27 p.m. However, some of our most recently posted stories were lost. We are working to get the Icons updated. Please have patience while we update the websites. Thank you!
The 2020-21 Bluffton and Ada Icon football bowl contest is here.
This year's contest includes 15 bowl games played from Dec. 30 through Jan. 2.
Contest rules
Contestants may enter as many times as they wish, but each new entry must be in a different name. When more than one entry is submitted using the same name those entries will be disqualified.
This story provided by Ohio Northern University HealthWise Pharmacy.
Around 3.6 million families in the United States are at risk of exposure to lead, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Here's what you need to know.
Exposure to lead can cause serious health problems — especially in children. Read on for more information about lead exposure and how to prevent lead poisoning.
Donald D. Augsburger, 86, of Rawson, died at 2 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay, due to pre-existing health issues not COVID.
By Karen L. Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the
ONU HealthWise team FROM ADA ICON - Many news reports are focusing on vaccines and the ONU HealthWise Pharmacy is receiving questions related to vaccine development. Here's a detailed vaccine explanation from Karen Kier, pharmacist and member of the ONU faculty.
Here's the second in a series of Bluffton-Ada Icon Christmas picture exchanges.
Each day until Dec. 31 on Bluffton Icon we'll post a holiday lights photo from our neighbor community of Ada. And, as a small inset, you'll see the photo from Bluffton that is posted on Ada Icon.
Here's the second installment. The larger photos shows the holiday lights in the Ada railroad depot park on Main Street, Ada. The inset shows the the model railroad Christmas display in Ryan DeMarco's Edward Jones window in Bluffton, now posted on the Ada Icon.
We have identified our community as Swiss pioneers, but find many of our ancestors came to American from France and we need to go further back in our history and find the reasons.
When our Swiss pioneers lived in Switzerland, many were persecuted because of their religious belief.
