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Icon invites churches to submit Easter and Holy Week service information

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2021 - 4:35pm

The Icon invites area congregations to send their special church service information for Holy Week and Easter. 

Send information to: [email protected].

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Worship
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Boys & Girls-Cloverbud 4-H elect officers

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2021 - 4:28pm

The Bluffton Boys & Girls/Cloverbud 4H Club elected officers for 2021. The officers follow:
• Brooklynn Bible - President
• Joe Spencer - Vice-President
• Audra Snyder - Secretary
• Tanner Bott - Treasurer
• Jake Spencer - Safety Officer
• Landin Bible - Health Officer
• Brooklyn Nance - Historian/ Reporter
• Brookie Bible - Activities Officer

Area 4-H clubs may send their club announcements to: [email protected]

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People
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Speaking of collections

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2021 - 4:15pm

Speaking of collections, here's one-of-kind you'll find in the lobby outside the Bluffton police department on the town hall's second floor. It includes approximately 70 police, EMS and fire department patches. Scattered in the collection are several "other" Bluffton patches including South Carolina, Indiana, and of course, Ohio.

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University hires first-ever swimming and diving coach

Ben Rath was previous Great Midwest Athletic Conference Male Athlete of the Year
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2021 - 4:07pm

Bluffton University has selected Ben Rath as its head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach, an intercollegiate program to start in the 2021-22 academic year. 

Rath graduated from the University of Findlay in December 2018 with a bachelor’s in Sports Business Analysis. He also served as the team captain on Findlay’s men’s swimming and diving team for two years and was named the 2018 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Male Athlete of the Year and the 2018 GMAC/MEC Male Swimmer of the Meet.

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Bluffton University
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Donald Mowery was an AEP meter reader

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2021 - 3:55pm

Donald Mowery, 92, died March 18, 2021, at Taylor Place in Findlay. Donald was born June 1, 1928, in Allen County, Ohio to the late Jesse and Evadna (Tidd) Mowery. He was married to Hazel Rumsey Mowery and she survives. 

Donald was a meter man for American Electric Power. 

Survivors include his wife, Hazel Mowery of Findlay; two daughters, Carla (Daryl) Richard of Bluffton, Denise (Tim) Duff of Findlay; a grandson, Jim (Barb) Waldman; five great-grandchildren, Hannah, Jacob, Samuel, John and A.J. Waldman; and a sister, Patricia Moyer of Waynesfield, Ohio.

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Obituaries
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Off-Broadway drama opens on Little Riley Creek

A cast so far includes a hooded merganser, two mallards, a heron, many vultures, crows, Canada geese and a lone muskrat
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2021 - 3:21pm

Don't miss the photos of cast members at the bottom of this story -

The plot is a mystery.

The curtain opened in the first of many off-Broadway spring dramas involving actors of Little Riley Creek last week. We anticipated theatre, but never knew what type or when.

It started when a female hooded merganser showed up a week ago.

After watching this bird, common in the Midwest, but no-so-common on Riley Creek, others joined the cast.

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Regional news
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