Mennonite Memorial Home will host a free, one-hour presentation on Parkinson’s Disease on Thursday, Jan, 31. from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. The presentation provides CEUs for social workers and nurses. The public is also welcome to attend.
Here are the most popular baby names of the Bluffton area, born at Bluffton Hospital this year. Of the nearly one hundred reported to the Icon, the top names were Grace for a girl, and Owen, for a boy.
Maple Crest resident JoAnn Hilty may not have worked her fingers to the bone, but she does have a few bumps on them from years of “knotting” comforters. A talented quilter and flower arranger, Hilty is a Pandora “city girl” who moved with her husband to a dairy farm near Bluffton at age 18.
“I didn’t know a thing about farming,” Hilty laughed, “but I found out soon enough why Arthur was always late for our dates. Farming is hard work. There were cows to milk, calves to feed and chores to finish.”
If you watched the Today Show this morning, you might have caught two familiar faces.
Jerry and Julia Szabo of Bluffton were among the new year's eve morning throng awaiting to be panned by the NBC cameras. Jerry informed the Icon earlier this week of their plan. He said that he and Julia hoped to be in line at the NBC studio by 5 a.m.
Looks like they made it.
Asked if we should watch for them in Times Square when the ball drops, he replied: "No way." Adding that most of those people show up around noon.
The Icon opened its Christmas vault. Out dropped Christmas thoughts from Bluffton second graders in Bev Stockman's class from 2009. We hope you enjoy the following:
