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Here's what's cooking at Jeanne's Kitchen June 23-26

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on June 22, 2015 - 2:53pm

MINI VACATION
Jeanne and her staff are taking a mini vacation this week.

We will not serve breakfast or lunch June 23-26, but we will have dinner this Friday!

DINNER, JUNE 26
All-you-can-eat pasta and Jeanne's homemade meat balls, Italian tossed salad and homemade Italian dessert.

Dinner hours are 5-7:30 p.m. A reservation would be appreciated. Please call Jeanne at 419-234-8650 to reserve your table.

CATERING
We are available to cater your event with our delicious homemade food. Call Jeanne with any questions. See you Friday night!

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Watch those skies today - damaging winds anticipated tonight

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 22, 2015 - 11:12am

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio  
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.
 

Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.

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Bluffton: The bicycle capital of Ohio on Father's Day!

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 20, 2015 - 10:00pm

There will be more fathers in Bluffton this Father's Day than ever before.

Most of the fathers will arrive on bicycles.

GOBA - the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure - arrives in Bluffton on Sunday, June 21 (Father's Day). Over 2,000 bikers will tool through town from Van Wert via Columbus Grove Road to Grove Street, then Jackson, then College Avenue...on to the GOBAville campgrounds on the Bluffton University practice fields at Rosenberger and Elm.

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British visitor

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 20, 2015 - 9:46pm

You are looking at the grill of the vehicle with the long-distance award at Friday's Bluffton Lions Club Festival of Wheels. It's a 1955 Sunbeam, British-made two-seat convertible. It's owner is John Rindfoss of Bucyrus. While British made, its steering wheel is on the left side for use on American roads,

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GOBA's visit a good time for July 11 Ride to Remember reminder

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 20, 2015 - 9:37pm

The Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA) is not the only bike event in Bluffton this summer.

On Saturday, July 11, Bluffton is host to the inaugural Ride to Remember. The bike ride offers routes of several distances and provides options for family rides all the way to a 100-mile ride.

For all the details on the Ride open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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Sunday afternoon is your chance to hear about John Dillinger's visit to Bluffton in 1933

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 19, 2015 - 11:40pm

You probably never met John Dillinger, but the next best thing – or worst thing – to Public Enemy number 1 will visit Bluffton on Sunday.

John Carnes of Lima, a Dillinger expert, will give several short descriptive talks about the John Dillinger bank robbery that took place on Main Street Bluffton in August of 1933.

Carnes will provide the talks during the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA) visit to Bluffton on Sunday. His talks will start at 2 p.m. – he will repeat these a couple times during the afternoon.

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