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National championship contest posted on Tuesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 4, 2021 - 2:33pm

The Bluffton and Ada Icons will post a 2021 national championship college football contest on Tuesday. There will be one Bluffton Icon winner and one Ada Icon winner.

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David Anderson was a 1971 Bluffton HS graduate

Held a law degree and a doctorate from Harvard
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 4, 2021 - 12:46pm

David L. Anderson, 68, of Bluffton died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. He was born on that same date in 1953 in Bluffton to the late Ronald and Fern Badertscher Anderson. 

David is survived by his sister, Debra L. Sommers of Powell, Ohio, and several cousins and friends. 

David was preceded in death by his brother-in-law, Daniel L. Sommers, who died on May 19, 2014.

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Obituaries
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Icon book review: A life in hozo

The sacred legacy of the Hillermans
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 4, 2021 - 6:16am

Review by Robert McCool
Hozo is the peace that a balanced life brings. Ever since 1970's Tony Hillerman's “The Blessing Way,” and all along the way through 18 books in his series until 2016's “The Shape Shifter,” hozo is what his main characters strive toward as they seek to solve the mysterious happenings in the sacred home of the Navajo people.

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Columnists
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Here's last week's Icon poll results

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 3, 2021 - 9:53pm

Take this week's poll asking your opinion on the stimulas checks. Click here to take the poll.

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Regional news
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Icon TV review: The Good Place is more-than-good TV

Icon welcomes Lauren Canaday as our newest reviewer
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 3, 2021 - 8:43pm

Reviewed by Lauren Canaday
Meet the author at the bottom of this review -
What do you get when you combine themes of philosophy, morality, socioeconomics, the after-life, the human soul, and... fart jokes? 

You get the television series The Good Place! 

The series has a stunning 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (with seasons two and four both at 100%), and takes viewers from laughing to crying to laughing again amid plot twists that would usually leave you biting your nails in anticipation of the next season. 

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Columnists
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15 minutes with Derek Swartzlander, now at Xavier

Caleb Mikesell and I are the only students in Bluffton who have blown up power lines for a school project
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 3, 2021 - 2:49pm

15 minutes with Derek Swartzlander
2019 graduate of Bluffton High School

Icon: What have you been doing since graduating from BHS?
Derek: I’ve been attending Xavier University where I study English and Accounting. I play guitar in the Xavier Jazz Orchestra and Xavier Singers, which is a group of singers and dancers with a live band. I also play sousaphone in the Xavier Pep Band and I am a member of the Students for Life club. I come back to Bluffton during breaks.

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