Want to try your luck at picking this year's Super Bowl football winner? It's easy. All you need to do is enter the Bluffton Icon Super Bowl contest. As of Tuesday evening, 15 persons have entered.
The entry form is on the top right side of the Icon home page. Contestants enter directly via e-mail. The deadline to enter the contest is noon on Sunday, Feb. 6, the day of the game.
The Icon's contest offers three tie-breakers. Here are the contest questions.
Who will win:
oGreen Bay Packers
oPittsburgh Steelers
A 16-year study reveals that crime is on the decrease in Bluffton. Rick Skilliter, Bluffton police chief, shared the study, which shows annual incidents reported to police from 1995 to 2010.
The high year was 1998 with 498 incident reports. The low year was 2010 with only reports.
Skilliter said that 2010 was the "friendlest" - safest year to live in Bluffton during this report period. Dick McGarrity of council praised the police department by stating that much of the reason for this decline belongs to their efforts.
Bluffton senior citizens will celebrate Valentine's Day with a carry-in potluck dinner next month. The dinner is at noon, Monday, Feb. 14, at the Senior Center.
Baby, it's "really" cold outside. Over the seven-day period from Jan. 18 to 24 the only day the thermometer crept above freezing was on the 18th. Otherwise, we've survivied a week of temperatures in the territory where we fear to tread.
Here's the seven-day report from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
