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We aren't in Ohio any more

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 30, 2010 - 5:45pm

The Icon didn't need to travel west of the Mississippi to find this plate. It came to us. The plate is on a vehicle in a Bluffton University parking log.

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'40s Big Band sound coming to town hall Oct. 23

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 30, 2010 - 5:30pm

The Hepcat Revival Swing Band is the next performer in the Town Hall Concert Series. The performance is at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23, on the third floor.

Admission is by donation. Costumes optional.
Hepcat Revival is a 7-piece swinging, jump blues band playing toe-tapping music reminiscent of a time when cars were as big as Rhode Island and America traveled by rail.

Decked out in the full regalia of the latest fashions of the 1940s, the band should be at home in Bluffton's town hall.

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First National Bank receives Outstanding Community Partner Award

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 30, 2010 - 5:07pm

First National Bank of Pandora is the 2010 recipient of the WWR Outstanding Community Partner Award. The award was announced recently at the the Community Bankers Association of Ohio (CBAO) annual convention and trade show.

According to Todd Mason, bank president, "First National Bank's vision supports the initial principals of the bank's founders: 'continuously strive to encourage creative thinking and empower team members to provide solutions to the communities we serve.' "

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Joanne Niswander: Guess who is visiting Australia

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 30, 2010 - 4:56pm

By Joanne Niswander

Melbourne, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010

Greetings from Australia! My daughter Lee and I arrived in Melbourne at 6:00 a.m. Monday, Sept. 27, after too-many-hours-to-think-about in the air over the Pacific. Believe me, it was a long night.

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University to host mathematics competition

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 30, 2010 - 2:09pm

Bluffton University's mathematics department will host its ninth annual mathematics competition for high school students on Saturday, Oct. 30, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The event, which is free, is being held in conjunction with Family Day at the university.

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Nyce to present Bluffton Colloquium on immigration

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 30, 2010 - 1:04pm

Dr. Lynda Nyce, professor of sociology at Bluffton University, will discuss the immigration issue as both political and personal during a Bluffton Colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Nyce's presentation will center on research she conducted during her 2008-09 sabbatical as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning at Goshen (Ind.) College.

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