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Invitation to submit April 2023 community calendar items

Posted by Paula Scott on March 27, 2023 - 8:45am

As we look forward to the months of April and May, our calendars will be filling up with family and community activities.

You are invited to submit events of general community interest for display on the Icon's community calendar. 

Please email [email protected] or tag @blufftonicon in the comments of Facebook posts.

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Where the river meets the road

Posted by Paula Scott on March 27, 2023 - 8:27am

On March 24 the Icon took a detour to check out the pathway under I-75 to Village Park. The Riley Creek was in fast flow and water was rising over the Triplett Pathway. The Village of Bluffton closes this strech when flooding occurs.

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Men's and women's Beavers golf recap for Alice Lloyd Invitational

Posted by Staff on March 27, 2023 - 7:57am

RICHMOND, Ky.--The Bluffton University men's golf team was all over it on Sunday, March 26, firing a school-record 295 at the Battlefield Golf Club. The Beavers broke the previous 18-hole mark by seven strokes and finished the Alice Lloyd Invitational in 5th place with a 622. Bluffton's 295 was the second-lowest team score of the weekend.

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Peace lecture to feature "Reflections of a Womanist Biblical Scholar"

Posted by Staff on March 27, 2023 - 7:14am

Rev. Valerie Bridgman, Ph.D., dean and vice president of academic affairs and associate professor of homiletics and Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio, will present Bluffton University’s annual Keeney Peace Lecture Forum on April 4.

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LWV holds March 28 meeting on Honesty for Ohio Education-Book Banning

Posted by Staff on March 27, 2023 - 7:04am

The League of Women Voters of the Lima Area will hold an informational meeting on Honesty for Ohio Education-Book Banning at 6:30 p.m.on Tuesday, March 28 at the Lima Public Library, 650 W. Market St. Lima.

The guest speaker will be Cynthia Peeples, who will be joined by Professor Kathleen Baril of Ohio Northern University. This meeting is open to the public.

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George and Joann Farling celebrate 50th wedding anniversary

Posted by Staff on March 27, 2023 - 6:59am

This past weekend, George and Joann Farling celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with close family and friends at Bluffton Town Hall.

George is from Pandora and Joann is from Findlay. They met on a blind date. The couple was married March 25, 1973 at The First Christian Church in Findlay.

They have three children, Scott (Myndi) Farling, Heidi (Chad) Wise and Wade (Jenna) Farling and eight grandchildren. Abby, Issy, Allison, Carli, Jersey, Kinsley, Bentley and Lincoln.

George retired from Stoops Freightliner as a body shop manager. Joann retired from the Hilty Memorial Home as a environmental aide. She continues to work part time at Citizens National Bank.

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