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Wind gusts up to 60 mph predicted on Sunday

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 5:40pm

Strong winds with gusts up to 60 miles per hour are possible in the Icon viewership area on Sunday, according to AEP.

Here's the statement from AEP:
"A strong jet stream will be in place across AEP Ohio on Sunday. As temperatures warm to near-record levels (60s F), some of these strong winds could mix down to the surface...resulting in strong wind gusts.

Sustained winds from the southwest of 30-35 m.p.h. and gusts up to 60 m.p.h. are possible Sunday afternoon across parts of AEP Ohio.

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University Multicultural Student Organization to deliver water to Flint, Mich.

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 5:28pm

The Bluffton University Multicultural Student Organization, along with help from members of the Bluffton University football team, will be loading a box trailer with more than 250 cases of water starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 29.
 
The MSO held a bottled water drive to benefit the community of Flint, Mich. after their water supply was revealed to contain high levels of lead. Water (24 pack cases) was donated by Bluffton University students, staff and faculty as well as community members.
 

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Bluffton University
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Librarians at work

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 5:12pm

Here's how you do it..cover letters with yarn.

These librarians are learning different ways to engage teens in library activities at a conference hosted Friday by the Ada Public Library and held at the nearby United Methodist Church.

From left are Esther Birkey, Bluffton Public Library; Nicole Katz, Lorain Public Library; Natalie Walton, Ada Public Library. Fifty librarians shared ideas about their programs for teens. (Monty Siekerman, Ada Icon photo)

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Bluffton Public Library
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David Rodabaugh, Bluffton favorite son, now municipal court judge

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 4:46pm

One of this community’s favorite sons, David Rodabaugh, is now a Lima Municipal Court judge.
 
He joins a court stacked with Bluffton connections. Judge Tammie K. Hursh, also a municipal court judge, is from Bluffton. Richard Warren, Bluffton native and former common pleas court judge, is a court magistrate.
 
Rodabaugh fills a seat left vacant upon the retirement of Judge RicKard Workman. Ohio Governor John Kasich appointed Rodabaugh, a lifetime attorney, who practiced in Lima and Bluffton, to the court.
 

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People
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Middle strings voice

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 4:17pm

The Icon continues its feature photo series on members of the Bluffton High School string ensemble. Here is Tad Steiner playing viola.

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Meet Reagan Mittendorf - this sixth grader will blow out 3 or 12 candles on Feb. 29

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 3:46pm

First of our series on Icon viewers born in a leap year on Feb. 29.
 
Reagan Mittendorf and two carloads of her friends will spend a day this weekend at Sky Zone in Fort Wayne. It’s an indoor trampoline park and it’s Reagan’s birthday party.
 
Depending on who’s counting, Reagan will be either 3 or 12. Her birthday is Feb. 29. She’s in a special group of people who were born in a leap year on the “extra” day.
 

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