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Feb. 29 is "just another day" to Zachary Basinger

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 27, 2016 - 9:55pm

Here’s the second Icon series of chats with viewers who have the great fortune of being born on Feb. 29. To read our earlier interview with Reagan Mittendorf, click here.
 
Zachary Basinger says that it’s just another day.
 
The “just another day” is Feb. 29. On it he’ll celebrate his 16th or 4th birthday, since he is a leap year baby.
 

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David Rodabaugh, Bluffton favorite son, now municipal court judge

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 4:46pm

One of this community’s favorite sons, David Rodabaugh, is now a Lima Municipal Court judge.
 
He joins a court stacked with Bluffton connections. Judge Tammie K. Hursh, also a municipal court judge, is from Bluffton. Richard Warren, Bluffton native and former common pleas court judge, is a court magistrate.
 
Rodabaugh fills a seat left vacant upon the retirement of Judge RicKard Workman. Ohio Governor John Kasich appointed Rodabaugh, a lifetime attorney, who practiced in Lima and Bluffton, to the court.
 

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Meet Reagan Mittendorf - this sixth grader will blow out 3 or 12 candles on Feb. 29

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 26, 2016 - 3:46pm

First of our series on Icon viewers born in a leap year on Feb. 29.
 
Reagan Mittendorf and two carloads of her friends will spend a day this weekend at Sky Zone in Fort Wayne. It’s an indoor trampoline park and it’s Reagan’s birthday party.
 
Depending on who’s counting, Reagan will be either 3 or 12. Her birthday is Feb. 29. She’s in a special group of people who were born in a leap year on the “extra” day.
 

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Bluffton HS string ensemble competes on Friday

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 23, 2016 - 7:59pm

The Bluffton HIgh School String Chamber Ensemble will perform at OMEA State Orchestra Adjudicated Event on Friday, Feb. 26, at Bowling Green Middle School.

The ensemble will be performing in class "B" at 5:55 p.m. Selections include "Contrasts in E minor," "Lullaby" and "M to the 3rd Power."

The ensemble is under the direction of Rachael E. Lewis

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Former Bluffton mayor, Eric Fulcomer, appointed president of Rockford University

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 23, 2016 - 3:08pm

The Rockford University Board of Trustees announced that Eric Fulcomer, Ph.D., has been appointed as the 18th president of Rockford University, Rockford, Ill., and to succeed Robert L. Head, Ph.D., who is retiring June 30, 2016.

Dr. Fulcomer is the current vice rresident for enrollment management at Rockford University and has more than two decades of leadership experience in higher education.

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Hymn sing at March 1 PrimeTimers

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 22, 2016 - 5:46pm

The next PrimeTimers event is on Tuesday, March 1, at St. John Mennonite Church, 15988 Road 2, Pandora.  

PrimeTimers is a non-denominational, community fellowship gathering for adults 55 and over hosted at St. John Mennonite Church in Pandora. This event will feature a hymn sing, with Dr. Joyce Jackson accompanying on piano.

The meal will include: baked ham, scalloped potatoes, glazed carrots, dinner rolls, coleslaw, cupcakes and coffee. There is no cost for the event, but donations are accepted.

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