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Chamber collecting material from members for welcome packets

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 20, 2010 - 3:54pm

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce is collecting material from its members to create a welcome packet to new residents and for persons and businesses inquiring about the community.

Vanessa Greer of First National Bank, and Bethany Theis of Mennonite Mutual Aid Society, are serving as the welcome packets hosts.

According to Fred Steiner, chamber CEO, the packet is an additional benefit for chamber members since it is a free service to members.

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Citizens National Bank - newest Icon advertiser

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 20, 2010 - 3:46pm

Citizens National Bank is the newest Bluffton Icon advertiser. It has offices in Bluffton, Elida, Lima, Van Wert, Findlay and Springfield.

Citizens offers several services. Recently it announced an improved bill payment product, provided through CheckFree, available to all its online banking customers.

The new service provides the time-saving benefit and convenience of paying all bills from one website. Additionally, several improvements will make tracking customer bill payments and finances even easier.

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1-19-10 Praying for earthquake victims

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2010 - 8:07pm
1-19-10 Praying for earthquake victims

PRAYING FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

Sophomore Elijah Tracy, Continental, prays for Haiti during an open prayer time at Bluffton University on Jan. 15. Students, faculty and staff were encouraged to spend their lunch break praying for the victims of the earthquake. The Bluffton community is also encouraged to make donations that will be sent to Mennonite Central Committee for Haiti earthquake relief. (BLUFFTON UNIVERSITY PHOTO)

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Bluffton Lions launch major fundraiser where many local charities will benefit

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 19, 2010 - 1:03pm

WINNING TICKET TO BE DRAWN AT THE JUNE 26 WHEELS FESTIVAL

By Austin Arnold, BGSU intern
Through a new fundraiser just launched by the Bluffton Lions Club, you could enter to win a Corvette and help out a local charity at the same time.

A 1990 red Chevrolet Corvette this week has been unveiled as the prize of the Bluffton Lions Foundation Charity Corvette Raffle. The winning ticket will be drawn during the 43rd annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels on June 26, 2010.

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1-18-10 Whose woods these are...

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 18, 2010 - 8:46pm
1-18-10 Whose woods these are...

MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP

Whose woods these are I think I know/ His house is in the village, though/He will not see me stopping here/To watch his woods fill up with snow...opening lines of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost, written in 1923. This tract of woods is on the west side of Phillips Road just south Riley Creek. It reminded the Icon photographer of the Frost poem.

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More random thoughts

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 18, 2010 - 6:19pm

You know how there are days when you've really screwed up and by the time you get home from work, your brain can conjure up only brief, random thoughts? Nothing really connects to the next thought except the realization that your brain is short circuited for the evening. Or maybe you don't have those kind of days. I do. This is one of them.

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