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Weekend doctor: Health care and human trafficking

Posted by LizGH on July 6, 2019 - 6:00am

By Mindy Lause, RN
Blanchard Valley Hospital Emergency Department                     
Human trafficking is also known as modern day slavery. It often manifests as prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor, servitude and the removal of organs. Since medical care becomes necessary for trafficked victims due to poor living conditions, abuse and inadequate nutrition, health care professionals are in a unique position to identify this vulnerable patient population.

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Blanchard Valley Health System
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The Bluffton Story - part 12

Written by Bluffton 6th graders in 1953-54
Posted by LizGH on July 6, 2019 - 6:00am

Note: Bluffton sixth graders in the 1953-54 school year (graduating class of 1960) created a booklet titled "The Bluffton Story." The following article is part of that booklet, which is now in the history collection at the Bluffton Public Library. This series continues each week on the Icon.
"The Bluffton Slaw Cutter Company"
By Robert Kimmet and Gerald Tschiegg
One of the small industries of the town that was founded in 1915, by John Fett and Sam Kimmel, is the Bluffton Slaw Cutter Company.

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People
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Inara Brubaker was a member of the Bluffton Public Library board

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 5, 2019 - 9:19pm

Inara (Mencis) Brubaker, 81, died at 8:35 p.m. on July 2, 2019, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, Ohio, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. 

She was born in Riga, Latvia, on May 1, 1938, to the late Arnolds and Herta (Stebers) Mencis. 

She was preceded in death by her daughters, Erika J. Brubaker and Andra E. Brubaker, in 1993.

 Inara emigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, and graduated from Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio. She retired in 2002 from the UOP/AlliedSignal (now Honeywell International) Research Center.

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Obituaries
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Patriotic pops concert Saturday evening in Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 5, 2019 - 3:13pm

FROM ADA ICON - The Patriotic Pops Concert, featuring the Lima Symphony Concert, at Ohio Northern University at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, will be moved indoors, to the ONU King-Horn Field House, due to the threat of thunderstorms.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and bring lawn chairs, blankets and favorite picnic foods. This fun-filled family event will feature patriotic music, selections from musicals and other stage and film productions, popular tunes and a tribute to our armed forces.

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Events
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See it on Saturday

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 5, 2019 - 3:03pm

You'll find this antique doll at rest on an 1840s-era bed in the Swiss Community Historical Society's Schumacher homestead, 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton. The homestead is open each Saturday in the summer from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is $5. The tour takes you back in time where you may see how Swiss settlers lived. Click here for details on the homestead and the society.

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Grab a cup of joe at Revive Coffee Co.

Meet Bluffton Farmers Market vendors
Posted by LizGH on July 5, 2019 - 3:00pm

Bluffton Farmers Market is the place to be on Saturday mornings in town. According to the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, our town "boasts the best farmers market in northwest Ohio."

In celebration of our small but mighty farmers market, the Icon will be featuring a market vendor each week over the course of the summer.

This week's feature vendor is Revive Coffee Co.

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Business
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