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Still time to enter Icon's Golden Globe contest

Winner goes home with a free pizza • This contest is multi-choice - easy to enter
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 25, 2021 - 2:19pm

You don’t have to be a movie expert to enter the Icon’s Golden Globe Awards contest.

Of course, it helps if you are, but the contest includes multiple-choice questions and that evens the playing field as much as we can tilt it in each contestant’s favor.

Click here to enter.

The Golden Globe awards presentation is Sunday evening, Feb. 28. Contestants may enter until noon on Feb. 28.

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Friday's ONU HealthWise clinic moved to March 5

Takes place at the Bluffton Public Library
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 25, 2021 - 2:07pm

Bluffton Public Library’s Mobile Health Clinic scheduled for Friday, Feb. 26, is cancelled.

Ohio Northern University’s Healthwise program will instead visit and offer their regular services the following Friday, March 5, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. They will also keep their monthly visit on March 26 at the same time.

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Bluffton Public Library
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15 minutes with Andrew Bertka

Dream job to become a professional Counter Strike Global Offensive player
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 25, 2021 - 1:44pm

15 Minutes with Andrew Bertka interviewed by Derek Swartzlander

Icon: You graduated from Bluffton in 2019. What have you been doing since then?
A couple things have started in my life. College is one of the biggest changes to happen to me. The change in class structure and the atmosphere is levels above what it was in high school. I have also started working with a friend of mine from work, Gregus Smith, at Schoolhouse Electronics. I have been very thankful for the work he has provided for me to help my way through college.

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On thin ice

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 25, 2021 - 1:25pm

One of Bluffton's great blue heron's took a stroll on the Buckeye this morning. The Icon photographer attempted unsuccessfully to get a closer look, as you can see in the next photo. The big bird likes solitude. After it realized it was being photographed, it took off to the other bank of the Buckeye, giving us the cold shoulder. Click here for some previous photos of the heron.

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Bluffton boys advance with tight sectional win over Tinora

The Pirates won for the 5th time in their last 6 games
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 25, 2021 - 11:53am

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Host Bluffton used a big second quarter to hang on and defeat Defiance Tinora in a low-scoring Div. III sectional semifinal boys basketball game 41-38 Wednesday night. 

The 11th-seeded Pirates trailed 10-7 after the opening stanza as Marcus Grube fired in eight points for the visiting Rams.

But Bluffton responded with a 13-4 second stanza to grab a 20-14 lead at intermission. Kyler Kinn canned two triples in the period for Bluffton, while Nic Essinger added one trey.

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No covid-19 patients in Blanchard Valley Hospital

Myron Lewis: "This gives us hope that we are getting to the other side." He recommends people who have put off routine physician visits to contact their general practitioners
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 25, 2021 - 9:24am

Myron Lewis, Blanchard Valley Health System president and CEO, reported on Tuesday in a Zoom interview with the Icon that there are currently no covid-19 patients in Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay.

“This gives us hope that we are getting to the other side,” he said. “Our hospital staff has been on a journey and we appreciate the support from our community and staff.”

He reiterated that the hospital is a safe place and that it is open. He added that many area residents have put off medical procedures during the pandemic.

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Blanchard Valley Health System
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