Megan M. Watkins, daughter of Bill and Louise Watkins of Bluffton, has married Bryan S. Given of Columbus, Ohio.

They wed at Bexley United Methodist Church on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The couple currently reside in Lewisville, Texas.

Megan is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center in Mansfield, Texas, and Bryan is a Support and Training Manager at GeoShack in Farmers Branch, Texas.

The Pandora United Methodist Church Choir will be present the Easter Cantata, "Amazing Grace: Ready to Sing Easter!" written by Sue Smith and Russell Mauldin on Sunday, April 1, at 9:30 a.m. during the worship service.

The church service and refreshments in the fellowship hall afterward are open to the public. The choir is directed by Pat Basinger and accompanied by Chris Meyer.

The church is located on State Route 12 at 108 E. Washington St. in Pandora. The Rev. Duane Kemerley is the pastor.

The Pandora United Methodist Church will host a free community meal Wednesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E Washinton Street, Pandora.

The following meal will be served: spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert, coffee and punch.

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Do I smell pancakes on the griddle?

Yes, and the aroma is coming from the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center. The Bluffton Lion's Club Foundation-Senior Citizens pancake and sausage benefit is today (Saturday, March 17).

The 30th annual benefit is from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 17, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St. Tickets are $6.50 for adults and youth through age 5 are free when accompanied by an adult.

The benefit offers all the pancakes you can eat, whole hog sausage, coffee, tea, milk and applesauce. Tickets are available at the door.

Because of the importance given to trees in the village, the Arbor Day Foundation this week designated Bluffton as a Tree City USA. This is the 20th year the village received the designation, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.

One of the significant players behind the scenes in the Tree City designation is the Bluffton Tree Commission.

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Here's the Bluffton's Boy Scout Troop 56, taken in 1942.

Front from left, Malcolm Basinger, Gene Patterson, Ron Diller, Ted Kohli and Bob Ramseyer.

Second row from left, Paul Wingate, assistant scoutmaster, Bob Oberly, John Schmidt, Otto Klassen, Bill Amstutz, Karl Gable, scoutmaster.

Top row from left, Dean Niswander, Charles Triplehorn, Bob Fisher, Morris Kohli, Gordon Bixel, Don Augsburger and Bob Stratton. Absent when photo was taken was Bill Mericle.

We've posted hundreds of license plates on The Icon, but this one is in a class by itself.

Study it for a moment. What do you see? You see a traditional Bluffton "YZ" but the plate is not Ohio. The plate is Arizona.

What's going on here? The answer is that "70 YZ" once upon a time belonged to James F. West of Sunset Drive. His son, John, moved to Arizona and took a little of Bluffton with him. John obtained the vanity plate for his dad's old Ohio plate.

David Yarnall will play the Great Highland Bagpipe at Bluffton Presbyterian Church Sunday, March 18, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. He will play during the 10:15 a.m. service.

He will play Highland Cathedral, Amazing Grace, Londonderry Air and Ode to Joy. Yarnall, who lives in Springfield, has played bagpipes for over 35 years. He's also an accomplished artist.