“Our baby has arrived,” Joanne Niswander announced with pride and joy!
Icon viewers shouldn’t be confused at all, because every year Maple Crest elder, Joanne Niswander, sets up a Monarch butterfly “nursery” complete with milk weed from her own garden for the little caterpillars to feed upon.
By Delano Whidbee, Icon sports writer
Traveling on the road again, the Bluffton Pirates football team faced another Blanchard Valley Conference opponent the (1-0) Van Buren Knights. The game started Friday night but was called in the third quarter due to lightning. The game concluded on Saturday afternoon.
After a score-less first quarter; the Van Buren Knights 22-yard field goal attempt was good putting them in the lead 3-0.
Gerald "Jerry" DeVon Brooks, 85, of Bluffton died at 12:45 p.m. Sept. 8, 2014, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. He was born Oct. 28, 1928, in Palmer Township, Putnam County to the late Malcolm and Violet (Preble) Brooks. On Aug. 14, 1953, he married Helen Burkholder, who survives.
Harold "Skeet" VanScoder, 88 died Sept. 9, 2014, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Two young Beaver football fans head hand-in-hand to their stadium seats during Saturday's Blufton University football game. On the right is Avery Talavinia, who is holding the hand of Dexter Dorrel, son of the Bluffton football coach.
