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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HOSTS COFFEE HOUSE-STYLE PERFORMANCE
FEATURING CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ARTIST, NIC STEVENS

Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter, Nic Stevens, will present a Coffee House-style performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, in the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, located at 2330 S. Main St. in Findlay. 

The concert, part of the 33rd Season of the First Presbyterian Church Artist Series, is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be received.

Apollo Career Center provided The Icon with details on its levy on the Nov. 6 ballot. The school is seeking approval of a 1-mill levy to upgrade its aging infrastructure, equipment and classroom space. If approved, it would cost the average homeowner about $2.50 a month or just over $30 a year.

A video at the bottom of this story shares additional levy information.

What will Apollo do with the money if the levy passes?

Leaf pickup in Bluffton will begin the week of Oct. 29, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.

He will update Bluffton council on this fall’s leaf pick up plans at Monday’s council meeting. (meeting at 8 p.m.)

“Residents should place un-bagged leaves on the side of the street in front of their residences, as close to the curb as possible,” Mehaffie said.

“Residents may utilize the tree lawns if available and do not allow the leaf pice to extend into the lanes of traffic,” he added.

Bluffton businesswoman Robin Sue Wilch, 58, of Lima died at 11:48 p.m. Oct. 19, 2012 at St. Rita’s Medical Center Lima.  She was born Dec. 27, 1953 in Bluffton. Her father, Robert (Terri) Wilch survives near Bluffton and her mother, Sue Kempf Groves, survives in Lima.

Funeral arrangements for Robin Wilch are incomplete on Saturday morning. Wilch, owner of Groves Quality Antiques and Collectibles, 204 N. Main Street, died on Friday evening, Oct. 19. Chiles-Laman Funeral and Cremation Services, Bluffton chapel, is handling the arrangements.

Wilch has operated the Main Street business for several years, after taking it over from her mother, Sue Groves, who first started it as Groves Bears. The business had been the largest teddy bear store in Ohio.

 

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