January 2019

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Do you have a case of cabin fever? Bluffton Family Recreation offers a suggestion to eliminate it: Open gym.

(BFR offers lots more options to fight cabin fever. Just call for details.)

Here’s BFR's open gym times:
• Mondays – Noon to 5:30 p.m.
• Tuesdays – 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesdays – 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Thursdays –10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Fridays – Noon to 8 p.m.

Open basketball:
• Wednesdays: 8-9 p.m.

Contact BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton, for details at 419-358-4150.

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The Icon spotted OHIO 4 in the Ohio Northern McIntosh parking lot, Ada.

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Here's Bluffton's Girl Scout Troop 315 from 1966 or '67 –

• Front row, from left: Koneta Campbell Vogt, Vickie Diller Stechschulte, Mary Pannabecker Steiner.

• Second from left: Sharon Shaw, Rachel Hauenstein Lambert, Deb Amstutz, Kathi Badertscher, Pam Burkholder, Karen Kreider Yoder, Valarie Spangler Campbell.

• Third from left: Lee Ann Woolley, Ann McCune, Deb Kimmet Baumgartner, Maggie Baker Mann, Kathy Koontz, Renee Granger.

• Back: Wauneta Klingler, Joyce Badertscher.

Topic of seminar sponsored by Citizens National Bank

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Citizens Wealth Management Group (CWMG) will host a series of free seminars titled “Outlook 2019 Fundamental: How to Focus on What Really Matters in the Markets.” 

Deborah Boisselle, VP Investments, will present the seminar. “After nearly 10 years of witnessing the U.S. economy and stock market recover – and thrive – investors are starting to wonder if we’ve seen all this expansion and bull market have to offer. At LPL Research, we believe there’s more room to run, and don’t expect an impending recession or bear market in 2019.”

Send them to the Icon

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Surely you took photos of all that snow. The Icon invites you to e-mail your best photos to us to possible posting.

We are particularly interested in sledding, snowman and snow drifts.

Tell us the location of the photos and the photographer's name. If people are in the photos, please give their names. Send to: [email protected].

“Reflections on Community Service and Servant Leadership: Then and Now”

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Community service, social justice and economic empowerment topics of upcoming MLK Forum at Bluffton University

Nate Fields, a 1971 Bluffton graduate, senior organizational development consultant at Development Source International in Alexandria, Va., will present, “Reflections on Community Service and Servant Leadership: Then and Now,” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Yoder Recital Hall.

2017 building permits totalled $2.4 million

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Bluffton’s 2018 building permits totaled a whopping $13,612,185 – thanks to a $10 million building project underway at GROB Systems.

The 2018 figures compare to 2017 figures, which reached $2,433,428 in construction. In 2017, 46 permits were issued totaling $1,773,128 for residential and $660,330 for commercial and industrial.

According to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator, 65 building permits were filed with the village in 2018. Of those, 60 were in Allen County and five in Hancock.

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St. John Mennonite, Pandora, has canceled its Sunday services, Jan. 20.

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First United Methodist Church, Bluffton, canceled its Sunday services, Jan. 20.

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English Lutheran Church has cancelled its Sunday services, Jan. 20.

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