Megan M. Watkins, daughter of Bill and Louise Watkins of Bluffton, has married Bryan S. Given of Columbus, Ohio.
They wed at Bexley United Methodist Church on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The couple currently reside in Lewisville, Texas.
Megan is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center in Mansfield, Texas, and Bryan is a Support and Training Manager at GeoShack in Farmers Branch, Texas.
The Pandora United Methodist Church Choir will be present the Easter Cantata, "Amazing Grace: Ready to Sing Easter!" written by Sue Smith and Russell Mauldin on Sunday, April 1, at 9:30 a.m. during the worship service.
The church service and refreshments in the fellowship hall afterward are open to the public. The choir is directed by Pat Basinger and accompanied by Chris Meyer.
The church is located on State Route 12 at 108 E. Washington St. in Pandora. The Rev. Duane Kemerley is the pastor.
The Pandora United Methodist Church will host a free community meal Wednesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E Washinton Street, Pandora.
The following meal will be served: spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert, coffee and punch.
Because of the importance given to trees in the village, the Arbor Day Foundation this week designated Bluffton as a Tree City USA. This is the 20th year the village received the designation, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
One of the significant players behind the scenes in the Tree City designation is the Bluffton Tree Commission.
We've posted hundreds of license plates on The Icon, but this one is in a class by itself.
Study it for a moment. What do you see? You see a traditional Bluffton "YZ" but the plate is not Ohio. The plate is Arizona.
What's going on here? The answer is that "70 YZ" once upon a time belonged to James F. West of Sunset Drive. His son, John, moved to Arizona and took a little of Bluffton with him. John obtained the vanity plate for his dad's old Ohio plate.
If you could help the Bluffton elementary school get a chance to win $15,000 toward the purchase of new computers, would you chip in and help? Certainly you would.
The way to participate is pretty simple. Here's how it works:
To help improve school technology funding in Allen and surrounding counties, Cartridge World is giving local schools the chance to win $15,000 to be used toward the purchase of new school computers.
