Hilty Home, Pandora, will host an Easter egg hunt on its front lawn on Saturday, April 4, at 10 a.m., sharp. There is no rain date.
The event is sponsored by Hilty Home and Hilty Preschool and Child Care. Age groups for the hunt include: ages 3 and under, ages 4-6 and ages 7-10. There will be prizes for each of the 3 age groups.
Prize tickets will be hidden in three eggs of each age group. The Easter Bunny will also be present and parents are welcome to take their child's picture with him.
Sixth and seventh graders at Bluffton Middle School have been working on a cross-curricular research project that will culminate in a fun evening of students presenting their findings to their families and community, according to Jackie Bourassa, teacher.
She told the Icon: "The standards for both Language Arts and Social Studies require students to conduct a research project, gather relevant information from multiple sources, present information in a formal style and share it with an audience.
Chris Moser (right), director of development at Bluffton University, reviews an evaluation of his diet with Melinda Frederick, a 2014 Bluffton graduate and now a dietetics intern at the university, during a Wellness Fair in the Sommer Center on campus March 19. Hosted by the students in the dietetics internship program, the event featured several optional health screenings, plus informational sessions on such topics as nutrition for the elderly, massage therapy and healing, biking, Zumba, and diabetes.
The following story was posted in Ada Icon in the interest of Bluffton viewers.
By Amy Eddings of Ada Icon
The latest phase of Ada's Water Resource Plan has identified scores of potential sources of contamination to the village's drinking water, including large-scale animal farms, crude oil pipelines and privately-owned injection wells.
Village Administrator Jim Meyer provided updates on the nine-year-old project for Ada’s Community Improvement Corporation during their meeting last Wednesday at Ohio Northern University.
Shirley E. Benham, 78, of Beaverdam died at 7:25 a.m. March 22, 2015 at her residence.
Shirley was born June 28, 1936, in Orange Township, Hancock County to the late John and Cora Balmer Marquart. On Nov. 7, 1957 she married Billy A. Benham and he preceded her in death on Jan. 19, 2009.
She was a homemaker and had worked as an executive secretary at the A.J. Heinz Company, Bowling Green. She was a 1954 graduate of Ada High School.
