October 2012

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The Bluffton Scrap Artists will be selling raffle tickets for this Dresden Plate Quilt (82 inches by 104 inches). Tickets may be purchased at our booth during the Blaze of Lights located in front of Forever in Stitches.

Ticket prices are $1 for one ticket or six tickets for $5. The drawing will take place Dec. 3. Proceeds will go towards quilts for the Wounded Soldiers organization at Ft. Hood.

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Have you checked your calendar? It's that time again. Bluffton observes trick-or-treat on Thursday, Oct. 25. The witching hour is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. 

Ding, dong...sorry, got to go. Someone's at the door. If I'm not mistaken, it's the Diller children from next door.

Other locations handing out treats

Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main St., will accept Halloweeners from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

The Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., will accept Halloweeners from 6 to 7 p.m. in the lobby. 

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The Icon spotted this plate outside Bluffton High School. Looks like someone from BGSU is on a recruiting mission.

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COMMON GROUNDS NOW ROASTING ITS OWN COFFEE

Talk to Phil Zimmerly long enough and you’ll learn something about coffee. For example, coffee is a tree. Beans are really seeds. The pits are what you end up with to make coffee.

I know this because Phil told me. Our conversation took place as he shared with me his secrets of roasting coffee – a skill he mastered this summer.

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Icon viewers:

Have you seen my arborvitae flower in a cedar box (see photo)?  

While we were in Maine it was stolen from our parking lot. It had to have taken two people because it is at least 150 lbs. And it is a $275.-$300 item, one of a kind.

If you have seen this arborvitae flower in a cedar box,  please call 419-358-6950 or the Sheriff at 419-227-3535.   

 I have already called the Sheriff so I have filed a report on the item.

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There will be a mandatory winter sports meeting for athletes (grades 7-12) and their parents Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the Bluffton High School gym, beginning at 7 p.m. according to Alex Hanna, BHS athletic director.

 

 

 

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The production of The Mad River Theater Works musical drama "Anabel" on Oct. 27 at First Mennonite Church has been cancelled due to an illness of a cast member.

The drama was announced previously on The Icon.

 

 

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By Evan Skilliter, sports information assistant

HCAC Pre-season Coaches Poll http://www.bluffton.edu/sports/womensbasketball/2013/hcacpoll.pdf

The Bluffton University Women’s Basketball team will count on its youth to propel the Beavers through the 2012-13 season as Bluffton graduated its second, third, fourth and fifth leading scorers from the 2011-12 squad. The Beavers finished with an overall record of 8-17 and 6-12 in the HCAC a season ago.

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The Holiday session of youth and adult programs at BFR Sports & Fitness will begin the week of Oct. 29. Adult Fitness Classes continue into December. Youth sport skill 7-week sessions will also begin the week of Oct. 29. In addition to sport skill and fitness classes, BFR offers  fitness center memberships, track passes and recreation passes.

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The Bluffton High School class of 1962 held its 50th class reunion in late September.

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Members attending front row to back, left to right, Rachel Hilty Friesen, Paula Greding Monroe, Sue Bash Mathewson, teacher Jo Souder, Nancy Swank Yeager, Sandy Edie Nusbaum and Jean Stauffer McConnell.

Center row from left, Jeanne Davis Smucker, Elizabeth Raid, Kathie Clark Stewart, Donna McCluer Morrison, Karen Gilbert Bash, Nancy Balmer Steiner, Jim Badertscher and Sharon Steiner Bishop.

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