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I scream for ice cream

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 25, 2016 - 3:52pm

Ellie Hoffman (left) and Brenna Kindle, Bluffton eighth graders, enjoy some homemade ice cream during Friday's Tommy Tire Sales customer appreciation day. New to this year's event were a zoo of yak, camel, tortoise, kangroos and alpacas from Jungle Island Zoo of Delphos. Click here for more photos of the event.

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You know you are no longer in Bluffton,Ohio, when Bluffton Bobcats appear on your computer screen

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 25, 2016 - 3:36pm

You know that you are no longer in Bluffton, Ohio, when the “Bluffton Bobcats” appear on your computer screen.

When that happens you are suddenly in South Carolina.

The Icon knows this because we frequently receive phone calls from persons wanting to know things about Bluffton that, don’t sound like Bluffton, Ohio, questions.

Rather, they sound more like…well here’s some examples:

• One caller recently wanted to know about that great bike ride we hold along the beach. We referred the caller to South Carolina.

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It was a real zoo at Tommy Tire Sales on Friday

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 25, 2016 - 11:43am

Tommy Tires dished gallons and gallons of homemade ice cream on Friday. The North Main Street company held a customer appreciation day as it has in previoius summers.

New to this year's event were a zoo of yak, camel, tortoise, kangroos and alpacas from Jungle Island Zoo of Delphos.

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• Ice cream - Ellie Hoffman and Brenna Kindle
• Elizabeth Dotson (in pink)
• Alexis Dotson (in blue)
 

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Football camp

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 25, 2016 - 11:29am

It's football camp time. Marion Pleasant High School Spartans spent much of last week on campus in a football camp. Here they are on the university field. It's now yet time for pads.

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Blanchard Water Partnership continues montoring water quality in Big and Little Riley

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 25, 2016 - 11:15am

The Blanchard River Water Partnership continued its water quality monitoring this summer, according to Phil Martin, coordinator.

He told The Icon, "We monitored 21 sites on the Blanchard River, Lye Creek, Riley Creek and Little Riley Creek. The spring monitoring was completed on July 5. The fall monitoring will done in late September and early October.

"Results can be found on our web site by August. Special thanks to Sarah Betts from the Hancock Park District and her intern, Ashton Stevens,for their help."

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65 years later...here's the BHS class of 1951

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 25, 2016 - 10:36am

They graduated from Bluffton High Schol 65 years ago. They are members of the Bluffton HS class of 1951, the smallest class in modern history to graduate. According to the 1951 Buccaneer 26 members were in the graduating class.

The reunion was July 23 at Maple Crest.

Front from left, Ruth Ann (Lee) Bixel, Louise (Reichenbach) Schwieterman, Carol (Sechler) Vermillion.

Standing from left, Margaret (Stratton) Mueller, John Triplehorn, Richard Jordan, Eileen (Mathewson) Hubbard, Genevieve (Burkholder) Schroeder.

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