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Bluffton Exempted Village Schools will have a 2-hour delay on Wednesday, Jan. 29.  Teachers and administrators will work on the implementation of the new “Common Core Curriculum Standards” with “Formative Instructional Practices.”  

Teachers and administrators will be receiving over 25 hours of training this school year to prepare for this future state adopted curriculum.

Bluffton Senior Citizens will hold their traditional evening monthly dinner meeting at noon in January. The meeting is at noon, Monday, Jan. 13, at the center. For a complete list of January senior citizen events, open the printer-friendly attachment at the bottom of this story. It is a copy of the January center newsletter

Here is the January church schedule at Mennonite Memorial Home:

Sunday - 9:30 a.m. 
Jan. 5 - Chaplain Bill Herr
Jan. 12 - Gary Reese
Jan. 19 - Elizabeth Kelly
Jan. 26 - Chaplain Bill Herr

Tuesday - 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 7 - Bob Amstutz, St. John Mennonite
Jan. 14 - Communion service - Rev. Carol Clements, St. John's United Church of Christ
Jan. 21 -  Rev. Don Clinger
Jan. 28 - Rev. Jack Duffy, First Baptist Church, Ada
 

Here are new births reported at the Bluffton Hospital from Dec. 12 to Dec. 27, 2013.
CLICK HERE for the babies pictures.

Bluffton’s 2014 new year’s baby – Lincoln David Suter’s partial family tree

Thanks to several Bluffton-Pandora genealogical records, The Icon can provide the following paternal information on Lincoln.

There are obvious missing bits of information – and we apologize for that – but this offers an idea of his family tree. As you can see by last names, Lincoln has lots of relatives in the Icon viewership area.

Unfortunately, we do not have his mother’s family records.

Parents Mark and Andrea (Nichols) Suter

Meet Bluffton’s new year’s baby of 2014. And, as we’ll soon demonstrate, he’s related to nearly everyone in Bluffton and Pandora.

He’ll no doubt graduate from Pandora-Gilboa High School in 2032, and from Bluffton University in 2036. In between, he’ll probably work at Suter’s Produce in the summer and at the Suter Cider Press in the fall.

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