Cobie Mikesell is part of the busy staff of managers and lifeguards at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool. Stay tuned to the Icon for daily photos of staff members.
Nicole Quick of Quick Photography, Bluffton, a new Icon advertiser, provided a selection of her photographs to share with Icon viewers.
Here's what she says about her work: "I feel that I give my all at every one of my photography sessions and I am very hard on myself when it comes to the end results of your portraits."
MORE PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY.
Here focus includes senior high school portraits, families, children, newborn, maternity, couples, engagements and weddings.
The summer issue of "The Visioneer," is now available to Icon viewers. It is a publication of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio. To view the issue open the attachment at the bottom of this story.
Following are some of the issue highlights:
In April the Ohio Department of Health conducted its first survey since Willow Ridge opened.
The purpose of these annual surveys is to ensure that the quality of care and the quality of life of the elders is provided for in a “homelike” environment.
Rachel Mary Yoakam, 75, died Aug. 12, 2014, at 10:10 p.m. at St. Rita's Medical Center, LIma. She was born June 29, 1939, in Lima to Carl and Edith Hartman DeVier who preceded her in death. On June 7, 1958, she married Gerald "Jerry" Yoakam and he survives in Lakeview.
She graduated from Bluffton High School. She was a homemaker and member of First Mennonite Church, Bluffton.