With Spring 2022 youth soccer registration underway, it is also a good time for Bluffton Soccer Club supporters to consider soccer referee training. There are new grassroots soccer referee courses for the region to help address a shortage of referees.
Who can be a referee? To complete the GR First Time Course, referee candidates must be 13 years or older. Admission criteria:
The Bluffton University men's basketball team kept it close throughout the first half, but pre-season HCAC favorite Anderson University was too much for the Beavers on January 1, 2022. AU moved to 8-3 and 3-1 in the Heartland Conference with its 79-57 victory over a Bluffton team (4-7, 0-4 HCAC) that had won twice in the previous 68 hours.
Have you ever wondered what's up--and down--at the Et Cetera Shop, 327 N. Main?
Manager Chrissy Lugibihl takes viewers on a video tour of the second floor and basement of the former glove factory building in the following Instagram video. She discusses what work was done to convert the building into retail space.
Watching the removal of one of Bluffton's towering, shade giving trees on South Main, neighbors Jeanette Reineke and Pam Weisenbarger were reminded of a poem they both knew by heart, "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.
Captured here by Icon photographer Jamie Nygaard, they recited the poem for her.
In her twenty-sixth novel Sandra Brown takes us back to Prohibition era Texas in order to present an ambitious story about a couple bound to come together over illegal whiskey making. It is also about 1920s societal norms for women.
Blind Tiger (Grand Central Publishing, Hatchette Book Group; ISBN 978-1-5387-5196) is a big five-course dinner that fills you completely up and satisfies your appetite for action and romance. Really, it is a big book with room for each character's development into a fully fleshed human with a human's desires and drives.
Frederick Lyle Arnold, 92, passed away December 31, 2021 at Lima Memorial Health System. Fred was born May 10, 1929 in Lima to the late Merril and Velma (Yant) Arnold. On January 18, 1959 he married Pat Marquart Arnold.
We see you, Icon readers in Putnam County. Here an update from the Putnam County District Library on January activities. For more information, visit https://mypcdl.org/.
Ready To Read VIRTUAL/ZOOM Storytimes
January 3-27 Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Email Valerie at [email protected] for login.
The January dinner meeting for members of the Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main, will be held at noon on January 10. The meal is free but reservations are required by January 5.
The meal will be catered by the Dough Hook and sponsored by Sunrise Senior Living. The menu is soup and salad.
Mary Hofstetter will emcee the event and the program is “a competition of minds. In other words, game day!” according to director Tonya Meyer.
Here are the Bluffton Icon's most-read stories of 2021. We have grouped the December 11 police incident and obituaries as single topics. The surprise entry to this editor, if not to past editors, is that a 2012 story about the coexist bumper sticker, item #3, attracted 873 readers.
For people of all ages, the everyday stress of life often leads to the sacrifice of one of the most important aspects of human health: sleep. Most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night, but on average, many adults receive seven hours or less. The number is even worse for college students, with six hours being the average amount of sleep that students are getting on a good night.
