This year's pies auctioned off at $400! And it was all for a good cause. Is there anything sweeter than a homemade pie? You could have gotten your fill of "sweetness" at the pie baking contest hosted by Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton, on Feb. 11.
Tied with the spaghetti dinner, the evening raised $1,000 for Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio.
With the weekend warm spell snow on rooftops took a tumble. Here's a photo sent to The Icon showing snow sliding off the roof of the Swiss Homestead on Bixel Road.
The Right Weigh - a division of Northwest Physical Therapy - will offer a free informational session to the public to introduce their new weight loss program.
The Right Weigh is a dietitian supervised, medically-based weight loss program offered through Northwest Fitness Club and is currently accepting new clients.
The next information session is Thursday, Feb. 24, at 5:30 pm at Northwest Fitness Club in Ottawa, 1880 North Perry St., next to the Ottawa Medical and Diagnostic Building.
Carol Koontz Heath sent this photo to The Icon recently. Imagine for a moment that a Sinclair service station is at the corner of College and Main (specifically in the front lawn of the Bluffton Public Library). If you can imagine such a scene in December in the 1950s, this is what you'd see. The Koontz brothers - Joe and Jack - operated the station. This was the Christmas decoration on the top of the station. Gas was, oh, 30 cents a gallon. For more details, see Mary Koontz at the senior citizen center.
