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Ebenezer wild game night dinner features outdoorsman Gerry Caillouet

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2011 - 4:27pm
Gerry Caillouet

Outdoorsman Gerry Caillouet is this year's guest speaker at the wild game night dinner hosted by Ebenezer Mennonite Church.

Tickets are now on sale at the church for the Saturday, March 26, dinner and program. The event will take place in the church's Crossroads Ministry Center.

Caillouet hosts and produces God's Great Outdoors, an adventurous 25-minute weekly syndicated radio program. The program is known for its helpful tips regarding the outdoors and its reflection on the Christian walk.

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Worship
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Order a box lunch for Bach's Lunch

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2011 - 1:32pm

Friday, March 11, is the deadline to order a box lunch for Bluffton University's annual Bach's Lunch, set for noon on Friday, March 18, in the Gilliom Room of Mosiman Hall.

Open to the public, Bach's Lunch will feature performances by Bluffton music students. Each box lunch is $6.50 and may be ordered by contacting Jodi Diller in the music department at [email protected] or 419-358-3347. Individuals are also welcome to bring their own lunch.

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Bluffton University
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University forum speaker: 'Dead Man Walking' author learned from victims' families

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2011 - 1:25pm

Sister Helen Prejean, by her own admission, met Lloyd LeBlanc at the worst possible time.

But what he taught her made LeBlanc the hero, she says, of the story that made Prejean possibly the best-known opponent of the death penalty in America.

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Bluffton University
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Letter: The meaning of YOR 4 license plate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2011 - 1:18pm

Icon viewers:

Miriam Rumsey just moved in to Maple Crest a week or so ago, from Otterbein-Cridersville. She doesn't have a computer and didn't know anything about the Icon, although she said she talked with somebody named Fred about the plate. She didn't know how to get in touch with you. Anyway, I asked her to write out the story of her license plate and I'd send it off to you. Here goes, in her words:

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Letters
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Not another Bluffton history book? No way - this one comes from our historical wastebasket

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2011 - 1:08pm
Sources waiting to be sorted for the Bluffton history book

Not another Bluffton history book?

No, this is not just "another" Bluffton history book. Here's a history book centering on historical footnotes cut from all the other attempts at writing Bluffton history. You might consider it a collection of scraps from the wastebasket of Bluffton's history writers.

Fred Steiner of The Icon is compiling the book in behalf of the Bluffton Sesquicentennial committee.

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Iconoclast View
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Kim Miller caps career with fourth All-Heartland Conference award

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2011 - 7:28am

A pair of Bluffton University women's basketball players were recently lauded for their accomplishments on the floor this season. Senior Kim Miller (Delphos/St. John's) garnered her second consecutive first team All-Heartland Conference honor following a record-setting career with the Beavers. Also picking up post-season hardware for the Beavers was junior wing Brittany Stegmaier (Garfield/Trinity) who earned honorable mention All-HCAC for 2010-11.

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Bluffton University
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