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Bluffton Community Assistance Program has families to adopt for Christmas

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 23, 2015 - 5:19pm

The Bluffton Community Assistance Program is busy at this time of year. Here’s a chat the Icon had with Jamie Crawfis, who directs the  program's food pantry.

Jamie, what does the food pantry do for clients during Thanksgiving?

We have Thanksgiving dinners coming from the Bluffton University nutrition students. Those dinners were delivered on Nov. 21.

We also give gift cards so that our clients can buy either a turkey or ham and some other items to make a Thanksgiving dinner.

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Put your display on the map - and enter the Bluffton residential lighting contest

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 23, 2015 - 4:41pm

Here's two important announcements from the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce to Bluffton residents with holiday lawn displays.

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Blanchard River Watershed Partnership holds annual meeting

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on November 23, 2015 - 2:25pm

The Blanchard River Watershed Partnership (BRWP) held their annual meeting on November 18, 2015 at the Hancock Agricultural Center. After a short business meeting, Ryan Sendelbach, Hancock Health Department, Jeff Giesige and Curt Tobe, Putnam SWCD, and Jason Phillips, Village of Ottawa, presented short talks on how important the BRWP is to their agency or village.

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Specials for November 24-28 at Jeanne's Kitchen

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on November 23, 2015 - 2:24pm

Specials for November 24-28:

~Tuesday~
*Minestrone Soup
*Chicken Pesto Melt
*Stacked Ham

~Wednesday~
*Stuffed Pepper Soup
*Perch Platter
*Michael's Special Burger

~Thursday~
*CLOSED*
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

~Friday~
*CLOSED*

~Saturday~
*Blaze of Lights*
We will be open for the Blaze of Lights from 4:30-7 p.m. We will be serving hot drinks,
Pete's Homemade Chili, Italian Sausage with peppers & onion, and Hot Dogs.
We hope you will join us!

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Columnists
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Recker named Heartland Player of the Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 23, 2015 - 2:10pm

November 23, 2015

BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton senior Thayne Recker (Arlington) helped the Beavers go 2-1 to open the season and he has been named the Heartland Conference Player of the Week. He picked up where he left off last season when Recker was a three-time HCAC Player of the Week en route to being named First Team All-Heartland Conference. 

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Bluffton University
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Smart Pirates: BHS athletes excel on the playing field and in the classroom

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 22, 2015 - 9:25pm

Many Bluffton High School athletes excel on the sports field and in the classroom.

Jim Raabe, Northwest Conference commissioner, has released the list of NWC scholar athletes for the fall season.

Scholar athletes are determined as follows:

•  Must be a letter winner in their sport.
•  Gold level -- GPA of 3.5 or higher during the season of their sport.
•  Silver level -- GPA of 3.0 to 3.49 during the season of their sport.

Bluffton's list is below. In addition, an entire NWC list in attached.

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