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Icon's error: Parks are open

All playgrounds, basketball courts, shuffleboard courts, and shelter houses are closed
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 8:49pm

The Icon’s announcement eariler today about Bluffton parks closing was in error.

Here is the officially-worded announcement from the Village of Bluffton:

Effective Friday April 3 2020, all playgrounds, basketball courts, shuffleboard courts, and shelter houses at all Village of Bluffton Parks are closed until further notice due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.  

All parks and paths will remain open daily. 

While we understand that this may cause an inconvenience to our residents, this is being done with your health and safety in mind.  

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Regional news
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Crack the Code

Bluffton professor develops online literacy resource for older students
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 4:10pm

While observing her students work on basic phonics skills with incarcerated youth at the Allen County Juvenile Detention Center, Dr. Amy Mullins, assistant professor of education, encountered a problem. The teens were embarrassed to use materials designed for young children. 

“Our students tried re-covering their books with white paper to hide the titles,” said Mullins. “Then, we started looking online, but we couldn’t find anything appropriate.”

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Bluffton University
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Virtual piano lessons at Krysti's

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 3:39pm

Krysti Schey shares these photos of  students having Krysti's Music Studio music lessons, in Krysti's words, " We’re happily rolling along 'virtually' as normal!"

She adds that "just for fun we’re doing a daily 'live' from our Facebook page at 11 a.m. Mondays through Fridays."

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is a kid's sing-along.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays is piano background music.

 

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People
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Bluffton U.S. Census response rate near 50%

Three ways to participate in the on-going U.S. Census
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 3:33pm

April 1 was Census Day in the United States. Here’s a map of the local responses so far to the census questionnaire.

As of April 2 the figures show that 47.3 percent of the Allen County residents have responded. Of that percent, 41.5 percent have responded online.

And, according to the color coding, Bluffton has a response rate of between 50 and 556 percent.

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Regional news
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The new routine

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 3:11pm

Here are Landen (6th grade), Leah (3rd grade), Amelia (1st grade), and Avery Storer (Kindergarten) getting into a good school routine at home. The Icon will post photos of students learning in an at-home setting. Send photos, art work, writing assignments and class projects to: [email protected].

 

 

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Sorry, no Sal Walker and April Shortbread concert in Bluffton

It was all a figment of our imagination
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 2:02pm

Turns out that Sal Walker and his band April Shortcake, currently rising in the country music charts, will not perform this summer in Bluffton – or for that matter, will never perform here. 

Sad to say, but the Derek Dukes story (click here to read it) about helping a stranded group of musicians on exit 140 was simply a figment of our imagination that occurred hours before the clock passed midnight from March 31 to April 1. 

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