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One more new Icon feature - Icon Publications

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 26, 2012 - 8:06am

Just when you think you've seen it all, The Icon adds something new. Check out the "Icon Publications" at the bottom right of our homepage.

Earlier this spring you viewed Explore Bluffton, a 36-page booklet, called the Bluffton visitor's guide.

We've posted a new booklet for you titled "Icon Book of Spring Blooms, 2012." This new feature enables The Icon to create an online magazine that viewers are able to "turn the pages."

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Once a Beaver, now a RedHawk - Ed Stults joins Miami (Ohio) football coaching staff

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2012 - 6:44pm

Hey, Ed, can you get us some tickets to the Ohio State-Miami game?

Remember Bluffton alumnus Ed Stults? He's now a new coach at Miami (Ohio). Guess where they play their first game this year? (Answer below)

Joining the RedHawk staff are former Miami star Ron Carpenter and veteran coach Stults. Carpenter will coach MU's defensive backs and Stults will work with the RedHawk offensive line.

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Check out a "Bluffton" quote in the official Michigan Travel Ideas magazine

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 18, 2012 - 1:32pm

Icon viewer Dick Jordan pointed out an interesting "it's a small world" connection in the current issue of the Michigan Travel Ideas" official state travel guide.

One page in the guide refers to the Grand Haven area of western Michigan. Jim and Pat King of Bluffton are quoted in that section. Their part in the guide follows: "Jim and Pat King of Bluffton, Ohio, are looking at the paintings, too. Pat says they return to this area every year, this time with their grown kids. "We're in love with the lake - we always have to have something to remember it by."

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Ada First United Methodist Church destroyed by fire

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 14, 2012 - 2:28pm

On Wednesday afternoon you could still smell the smoke from the Lincoln Highway. The day before, neighboring community, Ada, lost one of its structural gems to fire - its First United Methodist Church, at the north end of Ada's Main Street business district.

The cause of the blaze remains under investigation. Children from a Head Start day care center, housed in the church, escaped without injury.

Main Street, Ada, which is also State Route 235, is closed within a block of the church and traffic is rerouted around Ada.

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An update on Rick Emmert, Bluffton High School 1968 grad

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2012 - 12:43pm

Note: Our Bluffton High School classmate, Rick Emmert, provides updates from time to time about his experiences in Japan, where he lives.

The following is an e-mail update that we think Icon viewers who know Rick will appreciate. For more details, click on the links.

Dear Family and Friends,

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Lots of pancakes have flipped in Bluffton in the past 30 years

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 8, 2012 - 1:02pm
Dick and Betty Cookson with some of this year's prizes

March 17 marks the 30th anniversary of the pancake and sausage benefit shared between the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center and Bluffton Lions.

Tonya Meyers of the Senior Center provided The Icon with some interested background on the event.

Betty Cookson was the director of the Bluffton Senior Citizens' Center in 1983 during the first Pancake and Sausage Benefit put on by the Bluffton Senior Center and the Bluffton Lions Club.

"John Gilbert, president of the Lions Club, came and asked if we would consider having a pancake day with the Lions, but in our building.

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