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Shirley's is poppin' for literacy

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2010 - 1:46pm

DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DONATES PERCENTAGE

OF SALES TO PUBLIC LIBRARY

Shirley's Popcorn, Bluffton, is donating a percentage of its July, August and September sales to the Bluffton Public Library's "Buck$ for Book$" campaign.

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Now showing...

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2010 - 12:17pm

Adam Wireman (left) and David Glick (right) display one of hundreds of movie posters on sale this weekend at the Shannon Theatre. Does David Glick believe he is Kevin James in "Mall Cop." We can't say for certain, but should you see Mr. G, go ahead and ask.

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Dixie Chick fan

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2010 - 8:19am

Ah, this Dixie Chicks fan obtained this plate before you were able to do so. Or, maybe the Dixie Chicks bus drove through town and the real performers were shopping in Bluffton. Take your pick.

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15 minutes with Phil Zimmerly

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 24, 2010 - 6:43am
Phil Zimmerly at Common Grounds

Your hometown on Facebook says Lima. Where did you actually grow up? School?

I grew up just outside of Bluffton, just across the county line and in Cory Rawson School district.

I seem to remember you telling some stories about yourself as a kid that suggest you might have been ornery. Elaborate, please?

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Bluffton's big weekend just hours away

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2010 - 10:39pm

Bluffton's most entertaining weekend of the summer is hours away. Three groups have merged their annual summer events into one big weekend to form the first-ever Bluffton Hometown Amerifest. The schedule for the weekend is on the Icon home page. This scene from a previous Relay for Life weekend, reveals just one of the many weekend events.

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Here's the BHS class of 1948

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2010 - 6:48am

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The Bluffton High School class of 1948 held a reunion in Bluffton on June 18.

Members attending, seated left to right: Ceacle Potee Shields, Peggy Eckenwiler Augsburger, Esther Lugibihl Brauen, Marilyn Fett Bullock.

Standing left to right: Roger Bell, Mary Schmidt Amstutz, Maurice Garmatter, Wade Oberly, James Ewing, Mary Jane Burkholder Gilliom, Jean Burkholder Reichenbach.

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