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Icon seeks reviewers with opinions

For movies, music and books

• Can you review movies?
• How about pop singers?
• Or, books?

Do you watch lots of movies and have your own opinions about them?
Do you listen to the latest preforming groups or solo acts ... or know what group is performing where, next? 
Do you read book after book after book and have your own thoughts on them?

The Bluffton and Ada Icon seeks reviewers interested in writing movie reviews,  music reviews and book reviews. No, not one to write each of the three; one for movies, one for music, and one for books.

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Write a caption - winner gets 5 Shannon Theatre passes

Thanks to the reopening of Shannon Theatre, the Icon's "write a caption" contest is back.

Write a caption for this photo. It's Canada geese crossing Snider Road from The Centre to the swimming pool.

The best caption wins 5 passes to the Shannon Theatre. Send your caption to:
[email protected]
Message line: Caption contest

Deadline is 5 p.m., Friday, June 12. Good luck. May the best caption win.

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Mildred Laudick was a retired machinist at ATI, Ada

Mildred L. Laudick, 80, died on Friday, June 5, 2020, at 2:53 a.m. at the Shawnee Manor in Lima, Ohio.

She was born on July 8, 1939, in Lima, Ohio, to the late Harold and Pauline (Donehoo) Steele. Mildred was formerly married to Paul J. Laudick and he preceded her in death on July 11, 1999.

Mildred retired from ATI of Ada, where she worked as a machinist.

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Tip from the Icons and Ohio News Media Association

Here's a tip from the Icons and the Ohio News Media Association.

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It's show time at the Shannon!

2 oldies but goodies reopen Bluffton theatre on Friday evening

“I’ll take a large container of popcorn with butter and a soft drink.”

You’ve not heard this request in Bluffton since mid-March.

You’ll hear in Friday, as the Shannon Theatre reopens, according to Pete Suter of the theater, in a reopening with two laid-back oldies but goodies “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986) and “Kung Fu Panda” (2008).

Here’s the movie schedule with theatre guidelines:
• Evening shows are: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (PG-13)
Shows are every evening at 7 p.m. as well as on Friday and Saturday at 9:30 p.m.

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Funeral arrangements incomplete for Jacob Friesen

Jacob T. "Jake" Friesen, 100, died Saturday, June 6, 2020, at Kidron Bethel in North Newton, Kansas.

Services are pending and will be announced by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, Newton. He was a former pastor of First Mennonite Church, Bluffton.

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