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Carpenter to speak at library's spring tea April 28

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on April 1, 2016 - 3:30pm

The annual spring tea of the Bluffton Public Library will be April
28, beginning at 5:45 p.m. Tickets cost $12 and are available at the library. The
speaker will be past Bluffton University football coach and author Carlin
Carpenter. A light supper is included.
 

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Bluffton Public Library
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Vendors signing up for May 14 Bluffton arts and crafts show

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 1, 2016 - 1:33pm

Bluffton's 45th annual arts and crafts festival is only six weeks away.

Craft vendor booths are still available, according to the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, show sponsor. A craft registration form is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

This year's show is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 14. The show streteches from the town hall to the post office as over 70 craft booth and chamber member booths are expected.

Booths are $40 until May 1. At that time booths are $60.

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Events
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Bluffton on Trump’s short list for major announcement?

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 9:28pm

Could Bluffton be the location of a major announcement soon by Donald Trump, presidential hopeful?
 
Candidate Trump may have narrowed down to five small Ohio communities, each with a four-year liberal arts college, as possible locations where he may announce his choice of a vice presidential running mate.
 
The Icon understands the five villages in the final cut include:

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Iconoclast View
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Look closely, there's someone you know on the BHS honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 4:23pm

Here's the third quarter Bluffton High School honor roll. Watch the Icon for the middle school and grade school honor rolls, coming soon.

9th Grade – all A:
Olivia Amstutz, Seth Andreas, Raychel Avila, Madeline Burghaze, Kennedy Coughlan, Rhett Donaldson, Amelia Mitchell, Katie Prater, Lily Shadle, Amanda Speicher, Kylee Staley, Jackson Steinmetz, Derek Swartzlander, Hannah Yost, Luke Young

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People
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Claralice Wolf was a Wheaton College graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 3:52pm

Claralice Hanna Wolf died on March 30, 2016. Claralice was born in Lampang, Thailand, on March 4, 1921, to Loren Stanley Hanna and Hazel Brunner Hanna, both of California. Both parents served as life-long missionaries in Thailand.

Claralice was educated at Kodaikanal International School in Tamil Nadu, India, and at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College in Illinois, graduating in 1943. While a first-year student at Wheaton College she met Carl Wolf and abandoned her plan to become a medical missionary in favor of life as a minister’s wife. She and Carl were married in August 1943.

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Obituaries
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Watch out for cow tippers - it's the BHS spring drama theme

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 3:41pm

The cast is selected and line memorization is underway for the spring Bluffton High School presentation of “The Cow Tippers,” by Eddie McPherson, according to Kevin Gratz.

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Regional news
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