Allen County will hold its household hazardous waste collection this spring, according to Nancy Benroth of Bluffton. The event is from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 8, at the Allen County fair grounds.
When Steve Renfrow came to Bluffton in 1979 the Bluffton Baptist Chapel met on Sundays in the Shannon Theatre. The congregation was two years old at the time; its regular attendance was 12 in Sunday school and 13 in worship.
Today the congregation has its own building on County Line Road, is known as Bluffton Baptist Church and has an active congregation of around 100 members.
Have you been in Spring Cleaning mode?
Ready to turn some of that "trash" into CASH?
1st Annual "Trash Into Cash" Sale (sponsored by Beyond Budgeting)
Saturday, April 17th - 9:00a.m.-3:00p.m.
Ebenezer Mennonite Church gymnasium
Admission: $1 or non-perishable food item donation
* All monetary & food donations to benefit the Bluffton Community Assistance Program*
For more information or to sell your stuff, contact us at 419.358.4146 or [email protected]
The old college baseball field comes to life on warm spring days as the field of play of a new sport. It's Frisbee football. On March 24 two separate games of the sport were underway. Here's action from one game.
Somewhere in a bookstore is a book titled "How to Lie With Statistics." We dusted that old timer off the shelf and present you a column on the "average" Icon viewer's opinion.
Based only on our frequent poll questions posed at the bottom of the home page, we've created the perfect snapshot of the Icon viewer. We aren't lying about the findings; we simply realize there's no scientific proof to our findings. So, perhaps we are lying with statistics.
Nevertheless here's's how Icon viewers have expressed themselves in several of our ever-so-serious questions:
Marcella Looker, 97, of Pandora died 12:30 p.m. March 24, 2010, at the Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.
She was born Jan. 24, 1913, in Putnam County to Philip and Elizabeth Steiner Basinger. She married Ernest J. Looker Jr. on Nov. 11, 1973 and he died Dec. 4, 1984.
Mrs. Looker and been employed by Readrite Meter Works, Bluffton as an assembly worker and as an office worker at Steiner Bros., Lima, Leland Diller Insurance, Bluffton and Bluffton Community Hospital. She also worked as a housekeeper and caregiver for Mrs. A.P. Steiner in Waynesboro, Pa.
A course covering infant and child CPR techniques will take place at Bluffton Public Library on Thursday, April 15, from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Representatives of the Allen County Chapter of the American Cross will be teaching the course. The cost is $35 per participant and the course is open to people ages 10 years old and above.
Space is limited and registration is required by Monday, April 5. For more information, visit the library or call 419-358-5016.
The Bluffton University Art Department will feature the original artwork of two senior students, Sara Richer and Donelle Parker, in an exhibition opening March 29.
Free and open to the public, the exhibit will be on display until April 11 with the exception of April 2-5, when it will be closed for Easter break. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. weekends in the Sauder Visual Arts Center's Grace Albrecht Gallery.
