Apollo Career Center will host approximately 1,400 eighth grade students from its 11-member district for Career Samplers, Feb. 2, 3, and 4. Each student will visit three labs for 20 minutes each, and schools will be at Apollo from 9 - 10:25 a.m. or 12:30 - 1:55 p.m.
Samplers are the culmination of career education activities that take place throughout the year at Apollo's member schools. The students select their program tours based on career interest inventories, and then visit those labs for equipment demonstrations and when possible, hands on learning.
A Body Gospel Fitness Class is being offered this winter at Tri-County Assemly of God, according to Rebecca Oaks, Independent Team Beachbody Coach.
Classes are at 7 p.m. on Mondays. There is no charge for this class. Participants may start at anytime and are encouraged to bring water. The class can be modified for any fitness level.
Persons with questions may contact Oaks at (419) 369-4577
Any way you approach it, we are headed into a potentially nasty week of winter weather. The Icon advises viewers to make plans accordingly.
Based on three Internet weather sites, predictions of anywhere from 8 to 14 inches of snow could occur here over the next three days. On top of that an ice storm is predicted.
Frances F. Redick, 103, of Bluffton died 1:20 p.m. Jan. 29, 2011, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born Sept. 17, 1907, in Bluffton to George Clifford and Trelia Sechler Stratton.
On Feb. 22, 1928 she married H.L. "Dick" Redick and he preceded her in death on June 20, 1975. Mrs. Redick retired from Westinghouse Corp., Lima. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Bluffton, Order of the Eastern Star #380 formerly of Bluffton, a graduate of Bluffton High School and attended Bluffton College.
It must be cold riding on the back of that dog in the winter. Two Bluffton University students are framed by Jay Baumbaugh's sculpture on the university campus.
