How about a chicken or shrimp dinner and all the music you can eat? It's Friday at the Bluffton Middle School. It's the Bluffton Music Boosters annual barbecue with plenty of foodand lots of musical preformances.
Tickets are still on sale at the middle school office for $7.50 each. Tickets offered include a choice of either a 7-piece shrimp dinner or a chicken barbecue dinner. Dinners are available for take out or eat in. Tickets will be available on Friday at the door depending upon availability.
Dinners are served in the middle school cafetorium from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Christians need to live their beliefs in order to change a criminal justice system that continues to punish offenders after they’ve served prison sentences.
Bringing that message to Bluffton University March 19 was a Mennonite pastor who also has personal experience with the system she hopes to see reformed.
Elisabeth Gratzer, 98, died at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Bob and Bev Amstutz were recognized by the Bluffton Lions Club as Bluffton's 2012 Citizens of the Year on March 19. Click here for more information on the couple. Click for a video.
Sgt. Matt Oglesbee of the Bluffton Police Department provided the Icon with the police docket for February.
Feb. 2
-Police responded to a non-injury traffic crash on NB I-75 at Mile Post 141 where a vehicle driven by Steven Mays, 60, Elida lost control on ice and spun into the median striking the wire barrier.
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs has announced prize money, seminar dates and major sponsors for the first-ever Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.
First place prize is $5,000 in business start-up costs and a one-year BCE client program membership. Second place is $1,000 in start-up costs and a one-year BCE client program membership. Third place is a one-year BCE client program membership.
Bluffton University, DTR Industries, Mustard Seed Cafe, Reichenbach and Steiner CPA's and WLIO TV, Lima, are the major sponsors of the competition.
