Icon viewers know that Jim Kinn is a pretty private guy. He didn’t announce his retirement publically. The Icon discovered his plans through anonymous sources. This column attempts to paint a picture of Bluffton’s retiring vehicle physician. His last day on the job was Dec. 27.
By Fred Steiner
If only auto service centers gave honorary doctor degrees. Jim Kinn’s wall would be covered with them.
Try blindfolding him. Then, drive your car through the Stratton Auto Group’s Bluffton Auto Repair Center lot.
The ArtSpace/Lima Photography Club will present its Annual Juried Exhibit from Jan. 6 through Feb. 11, in The Ellen Nelson Gallery at ArtSpace/Lima. For the 2017 exhibit, 86 artists from a 100-mile radius around Lima entered 222 photographs, 94 of which were accepted into the show.
Jurors for the exhibit were: Jordan Knepper, executive director of the Piqua Arts Council, and Andi Baumgartner, Assistant Professor of art at Bluffton University.
Ready for some basketball? High school boys’, university women or university men. Take your pick.
Between tonight and Saturday you can watch up to 12 games in three McDonald’s Holiday Basketball Tournaments with all games in Bluffton.
A high school boys’ tourney is Tuesday and Wednesday at Bluffton High School. A university women’s tourney is Thursday and Friday at Bluffton University. And, a university men’s tourney is Friday and Saturday also at Bluffton University.
Eight Bluffton Middle School teachers were recognized by the Ohio Department of Education for their efforts on creating “Night at the Museum."
Teachers from left, Jared Byers, Janelle Bogart, Natalie Armstrong, Robin Ault, Cindy Lee, Jackie Bourassa, Lauren Moser and Sandy Karhoff.
This past year’s museum night in April was a cross-cultural project with Language Arts and Social Studies and involved 260 sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Over 900 persons visited the museum during its one-night event.
Photos by Jamie Nygaard
Leave it to Kindergartners to have all the fun.
LOTS OF PHOTOS BELOW -
On the last day of school of 2016 lots of exciting events took place in the Bluffton elementary school.
One was a Christmas party in Kindergarten with parents, grandparents and great-grandparents invited. It wasn't just any old party. It was a gingerbread house decorating event plus the performance of a winter skit that the students had memorized.
The Icon offers this Christmas story, repeated from last Christmas.
In the eighth year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Jordan was fourth district representative.
