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GROB testing booth stories has nearly 60,000 Facebook reaches

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 16, 2020 - 2:37pm

Facebook loves a good story.

It's not yet 24 hours old, but the Icon's story about GROB Systems creating and donating 11 testing booths to hospitals in Bluffton, Lima and Findlay experienced an Icon milestone as a hit on Facebook.

As of 2:20 on Thursday the story, also posted on the Icon Facebook has experienced 58,872 reaches, had 8,748 people engaged with the story, had 457 shares, 411 "likes" and 39 comments.

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Send the Icon a selfie of you in a mask - someone will win a 14-inch pizza!

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 14, 2020 - 1:40pm

Here's the second reminder of the easiest Icon contest you will ever enter.

All you do is take a selfie (see our example) of yourself or family wearing your COVI-19 mask.

Email it to: [email protected]
SUBJECT LINE: Mask contest
Give us your name.

All photos will be entered into a drawing for a 14-inch 1-item Padrone's pizza for pickup.Deadline to send in your entry: 5 p.m., Friday, April 17.

The Icon will acknowledge all email entries with a reply that says: Got it, thanks!

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Letter: About the sign in our driveway

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 7, 2020 - 2:08pm

Icon viewers:
The sign is in our driveway....for the past 19 years we have had anywhere between one and 10 grandkids at our house every day including the summer. As many grandparents in the area, we became day time caregivers and for 19 years have had some of the best memories a grandparent could have!

I also knew that our grandkids would eventually outgrow the daycare. Who would’ve ever guessed that it would’ve been because of the world situation that we’re all struggling with. 

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Going on a bear hunt? Tell the Icon where you've seen one

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 7, 2020 - 10:57am

Send the Icon addresses where you've seen a bear in a window. If you can take photo of it, even better. Send to: [email protected].

It's a great distraction for bored children – or for bored people of any age.

'We're Going On A Bear Hunt" has hit Bluffton. The Icon is aware that someone has hidden stuffed animals along the Augsburger Road bike path. Becky Cox says she's identified six. 

Certainly viewers are aware of other bears showing up around Blufton.

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Sorry, no Sal Walker and April Shortbread concert in Bluffton

It was all a figment of our imagination
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 2:02pm

Turns out that Sal Walker and his band April Shortcake, currently rising in the country music charts, will not perform this summer in Bluffton – or for that matter, will never perform here. 

Sad to say, but the Derek Dukes story (click here to read it) about helping a stranded group of musicians on exit 140 was simply a figment of our imagination that occurred hours before the clock passed midnight from March 31 to April 1. 

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Take a tip from the Icons and Ohio News Media Assn.

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 2, 2020 - 4:17pm

Take a tip from the Icons and Ohio News Media Assn.

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