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Blaze committee seeks auction items

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 27, 2009 - 4:54pm

The Bluffton Blaze of Lights committee is seeking auction items for its 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 20, Blaze fundraiser.

Businesses, organizations and individuals are invited to submit items for the auction. Persons may contact Elaine Harris or Fred Steiner for details or auction deliveries.

This year's Blaze auction is open to the public at The Centre, 601 N. Main St.

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Events
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Weather summary Oct. 20-26

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 27, 2009 - 3:43am

The Icon is happy to add the weather services of Guy Verhoff as a feature. Here are the daily maximum temperatures, minimum temperatures and precipitation recorded from Pandora.

Weather summary from Oct. 20

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Events
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Village employees may see no salary increases in 2010

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 26, 2009 - 5:25pm

By Fred Steiner
Bluffton council discussed, but did not act upon a proposal on Oct. 26 that would mean no pay increases in 2010 for village employees. Generally the village has had annual salary increased close to the rate of inflation.

Since the village is experiencing lower revenue from its village income tax all village spending has slowed this year.

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Public Meetings
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School board accepts $50,000 for Hankish Scholarship

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 26, 2009 - 4:29am

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Thanks to the late Theda Hankish, the Bluffton School Board's October meeting was highlighted by the approval of the Hankish Scholarship Endowment Fund. Hankish, a lifelong Bluffton resident and longtime school teacher, left an endowment in the amount of $50,000 to the local school district, according to Greg Denecker, superintendent. The fund will generate an annual one-time $1,000 scholarship to a Bluffton High School student who plans to enter the teaching profession. The meeting was Oct. 19.

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People
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EC 66 is no zip code

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 25, 2009 - 2:01pm
EC 67

EC 66 means Everett Collier and 66 is his football jersey.

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Regional news
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There goes LGH 4

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 25, 2009 - 1:59pm
LGH 5

Sorry to say, we don't know what the G stands for, or for that matter the 4. However, this license plate belongs to Lowell Hostetler, 11999 Snider Road.

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Regional news
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