Note: This is the first of a series of interviews and other features on Bluffton third graders. The Icon thanks third grade teachers, Ann Kingsley, Andy Armstrong, Janelle Bogart and Beth Raeburn, for participating in this project.
Dale E. Albright, 87 died at 8:30 P.M. Dec. 20, 2012 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Arrangements are pending at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Bluffton native, Richard Minck, most recently of Clearwater, Fla., died on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. He was born Sept. 14, 1928, to Harry and Mabel Minck.
He grew up in Bluffton, graduated from Bluffton High School in 1946 and from Bluffton College. He attended Ohio State University.
He married Helen James. Together, they were philanthropists, particularly interested in music (the Florida Orchestra) and the arts (St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and the Dali Museum).
If the North Pole were your head and the South Pole your feet, today your head would be too cold and your feet too warm. That's a metaphor for the axial tilt of the earth on this day, with all of us north of the equator experiencing our shortest winter day and everyone south the longest summer day.
On this day you will have your longest noon shadow of the year. Assuming any sun comes out at all today. After today daylight in our hemisphere increases faster the farther north you are.
BFR will offer another 12-week session of the Fit 4 Life program beginning the week of Jan. 7. The Fit 4 Life fitness program will assist individuals in meeting individual weight loss and exercise goals.
Over 100 individuals have taken advantage of the Fit 4 Life program so far. Feedback has been very positive including reported improvements in cholesterol and blood pressure levels, energy and endurance, plus pounds and inches lost. Fit 4 Life participants report feeling more comfortable in the exercise environment and more confident in their exercise abilities.
