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More letters to Santa

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 8, 2009 - 2:57pm

Note: Write a letter to Santa. Drop it in the special box in the Bluffton Post Office lobby. The Icon will print your letter. The Bluffton Senior Citizens will send a response from Santa (provided you include a mailing address).

Dear Santa

I've been good this year. How have you been? I'm sure you are good. I would like a skateboard, a new helmet, pads, a tech deck (my other one's broken),and a Julie Albright doll. I would also like a turtle webkinz. Tell the elves "hi" for me.

Love

Reagan Mittendorf

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First Mennonite youth taking candy orders

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 8, 2009 - 4:56am

First Mennonite Church's senior high school youth fellowship is taking orders for Christmas candy.

The youth will create Buckeyes at $4 per dozen; turtles at $4 per dozen; white chocolate peppermint bark at $4 a dozen and peanut clusters at $4 a dozen.

Orders are due by Dec. 17, according to Alison King, youth advisor. Orders will be available on Sunday, Dec. 20. Paymetn is due at pick-up time. All proceeds go toward the high school's service trip to Mashulaville, Miss., to work with Pine Lakes Mennonite Camp.

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December must be Denny Edinger and Dick Boehr's favorite month

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 8, 2009 - 4:48am

By Fred Steiner
Two guys we know pretty well must think that December 2009 is their favorite month of the year. We are thinking of Denny Edinger and Dick Boehr.

First, Denny: As officer in charge of the Bluffton Post Office, next week, for example, has the busiest mailing day of the year. Therefore, Denny's favorite day of the year is certainly Monday, Dec. 14. On that day the Postal Service expects to deliver 839 million cards and letters. That's only double the average daily volume.

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Iconoclast View
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CRHS student launches business

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 7, 2009 - 4:26pm
Ashley Siferd

OLD HOMESTEAD SOAPS AND LOTION

By Angela Green, BGSU intern

While Ashley Siferd, a junior at Cory-Rawson High School, has recently started up her own business, called Old Homestead Soaps and Lotions, selling goat milk soap and lotion she has been around goats her entire life.

"My family has had goats since my brother was four," she said. "I was born into the goats. We had a farm tour for Hancock County and we had to have activities for it and that's when we started making stuff."

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People
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Bluffton chamber card deck hottest Christmas item in town

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 7, 2009 - 3:42pm
Melinda Bowden of PromoHits! looks at her card hand

The hottest Christmas toy nationwide might be a fake hamster, but Bluffton's hottest Christmas item is the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce card deck.

The deck features 52 Bluffton businesses and was created and donated to the chamber as a fundraiser by PromoHits!, owned by Melinda Bowden.

Each deck sells for only $5 each. The card decks are available at the following locations: Greg's Pharmacy, Common Grounds, The Sports Warehouse, The Dough Hook, BFR, Family True Value Hardware, The Curling Iron and the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.

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Regional news
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15 minutes with Paula Pyzik Scott

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 7, 2009 - 8:29am
Paula Scott

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

I know you're from Livonia, MI. That's a much different city than Bluffton, isn't it? Tell me about your childhood, growing up "up north", etc. What kind of kid were you?

"Up north," that's Traverse City or Marquette, to me! Livonia is the suburbs, but I had a passion for horses and was lucky to ride English for six years through the Girl Scouts.

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