The Bluffton and Ada Icons will post a 2021 national championship college football contest on Tuesday. There will be one Bluffton Icon winner and one Ada Icon winner.
David L. Anderson, 68, of Bluffton died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. He was born on that same date in 1953 in Bluffton to the late Ronald and Fern Badertscher Anderson.
David is survived by his sister, Debra L. Sommers of Powell, Ohio, and several cousins and friends.
David was preceded in death by his brother-in-law, Daniel L. Sommers, who died on May 19, 2014.
Review by Robert McCool
Hozo is the peace that a balanced life brings. Ever since 1970's Tony Hillerman's “The Blessing Way,” and all along the way through 18 books in his series until 2016's “The Shape Shifter,” hozo is what his main characters strive toward as they seek to solve the mysterious happenings in the sacred home of the Navajo people.
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What do you get when you combine themes of philosophy, morality, socioeconomics, the after-life, the human soul, and... fart jokes?
You get the television series The Good Place!
The series has a stunning 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (with seasons two and four both at 100%), and takes viewers from laughing to crying to laughing again amid plot twists that would usually leave you biting your nails in anticipation of the next season.
15 minutes with Derek Swartzlander
2019 graduate of Bluffton High School
Icon: What have you been doing since graduating from BHS?
Derek: I’ve been attending Xavier University where I study English and Accounting. I play guitar in the Xavier Jazz Orchestra and Xavier Singers, which is a group of singers and dancers with a live band. I also play sousaphone in the Xavier Pep Band and I am a member of the Students for Life club. I come back to Bluffton during breaks.
Bluffton council closed 2020 with several end-of-year emergency pieces of legislation in its Dec. 28 session.
A special meeting was called for 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 4, to deal with contracts. The meeting will take place via Zoom. Contact Jesse Blackburn, village administrator at [email protected] for a Zoom invitation.
On Dec. 28, council decided to hold all January and February meetings via Zoom. The Icon will keep viewers updated on those dates and invitations to participate prior to each meeting.
A Bluffton University master's graduate, Gregory Phipp of Lima, recently earned a doctorate in management of technology and digital communications from the Indiana State University.
The assistant professor of communication at Ohio Northern University is a graduate from Lima Technical College and the University of Toledo’s electronic engineering programs. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Bluffton in organizational management.
His research topics include broadcast television communications and the adoption of bonded-cellular transmission technology.
