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The winner: "For the tenth time....point your horns down when cleaning your spit valve!"

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 17, 2020 - 9:58am

We invited viewers to write a caption for this photo of BHS band director Dave Sycks directing summer band camp. You can predict what happened next. Here's our top three captions. Greg Ring is the winner, receiving four Shannon Theatre passes.

The winner

"For the tenth time....point your horns down when cleaning your spit valve!"
– Greg Ring

Honorable mention

"Always wear a face shield when emptying the instrument's spit valve."
– Megan Morris

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Your respiratory health during COVID-19 and beyond

BVHS virtual presentation Aug. 18
Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on August 17, 2020 - 6:00am

Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) will host “Your Respiratory Health During COVID-19 & Beyond,” a part of the 2020 virtual “Live and Learn” Facebook Live series. 

Dr. Rafid Fadul, a physician with Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and Dr. Bill Kose, vice president of special projects, will co-host a livestream discussion regarding the effects and treatment options for COVID-19 and other serious respiratory conditions. 

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Take a Bluffton art walk

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 16, 2020 - 3:55pm

In the Icon's continuing summer series of Bluffton art, here is a bronze plaque featuring C.H. and Emma G. Musselman, to whom the Bluffton University library is named. This plaque is in the lobby stairway leading to the main floor. John Peter Klassen created the plaque. Click here for previous stories in this series.

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Forgotten Bluffton: the town jail

You've walked past this door and probably never gave it much thought
Posted by Fred Steiner on August 16, 2020 - 3:06pm

You’ve walked past this door and never gave it much thought.  It’s one of the oldest pieces remaining from the original 1887 town hall construction. What do you suppose is behind the door?

The answer today is a brick wall. The original answer was the town jail.

As you can see, there’s plenty you don’t know about the Bluffton town hall. And, we’ll get to much of that in future columns.

This week, let’s talk about the jail, which until now, you may have never known existed in the first place. 

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Findlay ramps to open, traffic on I-75 to be switched into final traffic pattern

The project in its entirety is expected to be completed in late October
Posted by Fred Steiner on August 16, 2020 - 3:02pm

The remaining closed, reconstructed ramps at the U.S. 68/State Route 15 interchange with Interstate 75 will open this weekend, marking the last, significant structures to be completed on a historic project in Findlay and Hancock County. 

"This project is a significant part of our efforts to modernize and reconstruct the I-75 corridor in northwest Ohio. Since 2012, we have invested $1.1 billion into nearly 55 miles of I-75 from the Ohio and Michigan border to Lima," said Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Jack Marchbanks, who was in Findlay to mark the occasion.

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Ohio Northern football, volleyball and soccer games in March 2021

Ohio Athletic Conference releases sport schedules; football games on Friday nights in March and April
Posted by Fred Steiner on August 16, 2020 - 1:19pm

FROM ADA ICON - The Ohio Athletic Conference has announced the schedules for football, volleyball and men's and women's soccer for the 2021 spring seasons.

All sports will begin competition on the weekend of March 12, 2021, and will conclude on the weekend of April 16 with championships games in all sports.

The four schedules feature conference-only competition and remain under the NCAA's 50 percent waiver rule so that all student-athletes will not use a season of competition.

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