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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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Flood a small town and suddenly everyone wants to see what's happening; or how Phil Zimmerly lost his 15 minutes of fame

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 1, 2011 - 5:27am
Phil Zimmerly lost his 15 minutes of fame to a swollen Riley Creek

Flood a small town and suddenly everyone wants to see what's happening. The Feb. 28 flood set one-day viewing records for The Icon.

While The Icon has averaged between 500 to 600 viewers per day on Feb. 28 The Icon had 3,472 individual viewers. That topped the previous record when a deer walked into a downtown Bluffton bar.

On Nov. 6, 2010, The Icon had 1,477 viewers watch the deer crash through Luke's Bar and Grill window. We thought that was impressive.

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And honeymoon is in Ireland, of course

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 24, 2011 - 4:51pm

Let's get married on St. Patrick's Day in downtown Bluffton.

Could this be the beginning of a trend...downtown Bluffton as a place to get married?

We understand that Timothy L. Mullens, of Sevierville, Tenn., and Heidi Harrington also of Sevierville, are going downtown Bluffton to get hitched.

Heidi is an art education graduate from Bluffton University. Tim attended ONU.

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If you are a Beaverdam HS alumnus, does the name Lou Meszaros ring any bells?

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 20, 2011 - 5:47pm

This column is exclusively for Beaverdam High School alumni. Tracy Steele provided The Icon with a copy of the Winter 2011 "Tattler." It's the newsletter of the Toledo Woodward High School Hall of Fame Association.

What does this have to do with Beaverdam? Keep reading. On April 9 the 29th annual induction celebration of Woodward's Hall of Fame takes place. One of the inductees is Lou Meszaros (posthumous), who was a science teacher and football coach at Woodward.

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Pie heaven

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 14, 2011 - 1:04pm

By Julie Stratton
Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio

It is one of those big debates of life that always trip us up and last week it raised it's ugly head in a conversation with my friend, "cake or pie?"

If you have ever found yourself in this debate you will get a vast array of passionate answers. Most people are either one or the other. I have to say that I fall into the pie enthusiast category.

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Sunday noon is deadline to enter Icon's Super Bowl contest

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 5, 2011 - 5:29am

Two-minute warning. Make that 24-hour and counting warning. You may still enter The Bluffton Icon Super Bowl 45 (that's XXXXV if you took Latin) contest.

Over 75 contestants have entered so far. Entering is simple. Click on the box on the top right side of The Icon's home page, answer the questions and hit "submit."

The deadline to enter is noon, Sunday, Feb. 6.

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