Complete game stats of Bluffton High School football team's win over Carey on Sept. 3 are available on The Icon forms page. There are two pages of stats available. Click here to go to forms page.
Work on the Bluffton Hospital construction project this week includes continuing the steel installation and framing of the two-story addition, which includes the new emergency department.
In addition, this week will see continuing masonry block installation for the interior elevator and stairwell, continuing the framing of new walls and hanging HVAC duct work for the new operating room.
CC Runners Set Personal Records at Grove Invitational Last Saturday, September fourth, the Pirate cross country runners piled into a school bus and made the short drive to the Columbus Grove Invitational.
The Grove course was a speedy one - a triple loop down open stretches of cheering fans and flat forest trails that spits you out onto the track for the last 300 meters.
I disagree with Wendy Chappell-Dick and think the progressives are going to ruin this country. Progressives believe that the government must be involved in all levels of reform. The existing constitution is outdated and must be made into a dynamic evolving instrument for social change, using scientific knowledge and the development of administrative bureaucracy.
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. My friend Mary and I had just left another friend's home where we had enjoyed lunch together. One of our table conversations had been about the spiffy new "Motter Metro Park" sign that had recently appeared along Grove Road, just across from Maple Grove Cemetery.
None of us had remembered seeing anything in the news about it. What was this new park in our midst?
The first free Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting of 2010-11 is at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 10, in the third floor of the town hall. Jerry Lewis, owner of the Bluffton McDonald's Restaurant, is the speaker.
Care to go geocaching? Here's the second (and the first) coordinates in The Icon Dash for Cache contest. Prizes are in each cache. There are six in all. Click here for more background on this contest. In the meantime, here are the first two cache coordinates.
COORDINATE NUMBER 1 - RELEASED SEPT. 4
"Bluffton's New View"
Jodi Brauen holds an angel gourd. She and her husband, Don, will hold an open house offering hundreds of decorative gourds that they have created just in time for several fall holidays. Their open house is Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19, at their 7140 Tom Fett Road residence. To view other photos of their gourd creations click here.
By Fred Steiner, one-time trombone player in the BHS marching band
There I was, minding my own business, on the goal line at Harmon Field on Friday night.
Suddenly the drum major ("field commander" is not in my vocabulary) blasted three of four times on the whistle. The next thing I knew I was marching out on the field with the BHS marching band.
It was my first venture on the field in 43 football seasons. That's so long ago that Elida, Ottawa-Glandorf and Bath were on the schedule the last time I looked.
