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This is the second in a series of features on the Bluffton Pedestrian and Bike Pathway Steering Committee. For previous stories click here.

An ambitious goal: Encircle Bluffton with a pedestrian and bike pathway. The goal's achievements occur one step at a time, through the work of the Bluffton Pedestrian and Bike Pathway Steering Committee.

It's time to order your girl scout cookies. According to Kathy Bishop, service unit manager of the Bluffton girl scouts, nearly 80 Bluffton girl scouts, ages 5 to 16, are ready to take cookie orders.

The girls spent a couple hours after school on Jan. 20, honing their sales skills, making posters, thank you notes in advance and coming up with words to describe this year's cookies to potential customers. The scouts meet at the First United Methodist Church.

The Icon visited Ada last week. We spotted this plate in the coffee shop parking lot across from ONU.

The trauma center at Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH), Findlay, has been verified as a level III trauma center by the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

This verification program confirms that a trauma center has demonstrated its commitment to providing the highest quality trauma care for all injured patients.

There are four separate categories of verification. Each category has specific criteria that must be met by a facility seeking that level of verification.

Key elements of a Level III trauma center include:

It snowed 7 inches in the past week, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. Here's his report for Jan. 11 to Jan. 17

Here's a old-style Ohio plate turned into a vanity plate. Can any viewers remind us the town used "ZP"?

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