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Letter: About the sign in our driveway

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 7, 2020 - 2:08pm

Icon viewers:
The sign is in our driveway....for the past 19 years we have had anywhere between one and 10 grandkids at our house every day including the summer. As many grandparents in the area, we became day time caregivers and for 19 years have had some of the best memories a grandparent could have!

I also knew that our grandkids would eventually outgrow the daycare. Who would’ve ever guessed that it would’ve been because of the world situation that we’re all struggling with. 

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Going on a bear hunt? Tell the Icon where you've seen one

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 7, 2020 - 10:57am

Send the Icon addresses where you've seen a bear in a window. If you can take photo of it, even better. Send to: [email protected].

It's a great distraction for bored children – or for bored people of any age.

'We're Going On A Bear Hunt" has hit Bluffton. The Icon is aware that someone has hidden stuffed animals along the Augsburger Road bike path. Becky Cox says she's identified six. 

Certainly viewers are aware of other bears showing up around Blufton.

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Sorry, no Sal Walker and April Shortbread concert in Bluffton

It was all a figment of our imagination
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 3, 2020 - 2:02pm

Turns out that Sal Walker and his band April Shortcake, currently rising in the country music charts, will not perform this summer in Bluffton – or for that matter, will never perform here. 

Sad to say, but the Derek Dukes story (click here to read it) about helping a stranded group of musicians on exit 140 was simply a figment of our imagination that occurred hours before the clock passed midnight from March 31 to April 1. 

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Take a tip from the Icons and Ohio News Media Assn.

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 2, 2020 - 4:17pm

Take a tip from the Icons and Ohio News Media Assn.

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Icon's scavenger hunt now offers a Padrone's Pizza to the winner

Deadline to enter is 5 p.m. Friday
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 1, 2020 - 11:40am

First place prize is a $15 value Pizza from Padrone's Pizza!

And now for something completely different: Weird Bluffton Scavenger Hunt.

Bluffton may be small, but we’re generous, collaborative, and hard-working. We’re also weird, and proud of it. And, we have Ron Headings to thank for creating a distraction that you might find worthwhile.

(We've even provided a hint at the bottom of this story)

Read on:

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Bet you never gave baking cookies a second thought

A multi-discipline school assignment you can eat
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 29, 2020 - 4:58pm

Here's a multi-discipline school assignment that you can eat.

The Icon writer had a hankering for cookies and decided to see how many disciplines baking them involves. The following column demonstrates the result, wondering how public school students might use this exercise at home.

Disciplines used
Reading, writing, mathematics, geography, music appreciation, home economics, chemistry, art, critical thinking, foreign language, physical education and study hall. Perhaps there are others we’ve not considered.

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