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Elaine and Diane – a chamber tradition

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 18, 2019 - 3:29pm

It's becoming a chamber December traditiion. Elaine Wehri and her sister, Diane (right), put persons attending last Friday's chamber breakfast in the Christmas spirit. They performed Christmas music during the breakfast portion of the meeting. They also performed at last year's December breakfast.

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What's on your Christmas tree says a lot about you – read on...

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 18, 2019 - 3:05pm

FROM ADA ICON  - (This photo story is also on Bluffton Icon. ) Don't be surpised if you find polar bears on Christmas trees on the ONU campus. It's a local phenomenon, as all Ohio communities carry on their own holiday tree ornament traditions.

For example, in neighoring Bluffton it is not surprising to find a beaver on a tree, as is evident in the next photo in this series. (This story is also posted on Ada Icon.)

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Regional news
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Bluffton-Rhodes nursing partnership announced

The agreement encourages transfer of students between the two institutions; designed to to help meet the need for nurses in northwest Ohio
Posted by Fred Steiner on December 18, 2019 - 2:35pm

Rhodes State College and Bluffton University today announced a partnership involving the nursing programs of the two schools, designed to to help meet the need for nurses in northwest Ohio.

The agreement between Bluffton and Rhodes  facilitates the transfer of students between the two institutions.

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Bluffton University
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My season of motherhood

Diapers, sleep deprivation and dancing chickens
Posted by LizGH on December 18, 2019 - 2:00pm

By Liz Gordon-Hancock
To everything, there is a season. And I'm not talking about the fall, winter, spring, summer... or even the Christmas season, but the seasons that come with motherhood. These seasons are typified by little things, like diapers or high chairs, soccer balls or pom poms.  

If you have a teenager, you may be in the season of door-slamming and hormones. If you have a growing boy, you may be in the season of monthly shoe-shopping, as you try to keep up with your son's ever-growing feet.

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Columnists
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Mercy Health-St. Rita’s scholarship program accepting applications

Posted by Icon K on December 18, 2019 - 6:00am

Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center  2020 Mercy Health –St. Rita’s Scholarship Program is now accepting applications. The program for high school seniors graduating in the spring of 2020, allocates $1,500 scholarships to students from Lima area who are interested in pursuing careers as medical professionals.

Students in Allen, Auglaize, Hardin, Hancock, Logan, Mercer, Paulding, Putnam, Shelby and Van Wert counties may apply. Applications can be found at more than 70 high schools and career centers around the 10 county districts.

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Business
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More details of Harmon Field

Posted by LizGH on December 18, 2019 - 6:00am

To Icon:
In response to your old picture of Harmon Field (click here to see the picture, posted 12/16/19) , it occurred to me that I had done some research on other Harmon fields for my On The Road Ohio radio series that airs on 1330 WFIN, Findlay (8:32am, M-F) and 1430 WFOB, Fostoria (10:44am, M-F). 

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Letters
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