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Toys for Tots donation boxes, food pantry collection in Bluffton schools

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 4, 2013 - 8:54pm

The Salvation Army has dropped off Toys for Tots donation boxes in the Bluffton Middle School and High School offices.

New unwrapped toys can be dropped off at both destinations through Thursday, Dec. 12.

The middle school Student Senate is sponsoring a food drive until Dec. 12.  Students may donate non-perishable food items (no glass, please).  All donated items will go directly to the Bluffton Food Pantry.  Each grade level has a goal.

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Icon provides U.S. Postal Service holiday mailing deadlines

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 4, 2013 - 8:31pm

For Bluffton postal patrons wanting to know holiday dates for domestic mail deadlines and foreign mail, The Icon provides the following charts to assist in your planning.

Two charts, which are printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story, show dates so that you may get your packages and cards delivered on time.

Or, you may click here to open the U.S. Postal website, which lists all the deadlines.

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Christmas pooch

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 4, 2013 - 6:42pm

Here's a Christmas pooch waiting to be under your tree on Dec. 25. The dog and its carrier were part of the Allen County Humane Society unit in the Blaze of Lights parade on Saturday.

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Nine holiday concerts on Bluffton's calendar - here's the list

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 4, 2013 - 6:15pm

It’s Christmas concert season. Monday launched the concerts as the Bluffton 4th and 5th grade band and strings performed in the middle school cafetorium. This week and next week everyone in Bluffton will be humming holiday tunes.

Here's the schedule:

On Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall is the Bluffton University Christmas concert.

On Sunday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. in Founders Hall is the 118th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” by the Bluffton Choral Society.

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Dec. 13 chamber breakfast and workshop topic: Social Security

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 4, 2013 - 5:50pm

Social Security is the theme of the Friday, Dec. 13, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. A complete, free breakfast will be served from 7 to 7:30 a.m. The breakfast meeting is from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.

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Myrna Engelhardt was co-owner of Englehardt Landscaping

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 4, 2013 - 4:40pm

 

Myrna A. Engelhardt, 71, of Bluffton died at 2:55 pm Dec. 3, 2013, at the Wexner Medical Center, Columbus. She was born March 8, 1942, in Wapakoneta to the late Ned K. and Mary E. Harshbarger Krapf. On March 10, 1962 she married David Engelhardt and he survives.

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