Editor's note: On a Monday morning my to-do list is pretty long. It's also nice to take a look at the Icon's "done" list, the week that was, Monday-Sunday.
FROM BMP FACEBBOOK__While the goal is to open 5-8 Monday-Thursday...we are for once not having an end of summer heat wave.
1) If air temp is below 70 degrees, we cannot open.
2) If we do open, but do not have at least a total of 10 guests, we cannot stay open.
We will try to make a decision daily by 4:00 on whether we are opening that day or not and will post on Facebook. Thank you to still coming out and for your understanding! We appreciate our guests!
In football the punter often doesn't get much credit. A good punter is important because he gives his team excellent field position. One of Bluffton High School's finest punters was Don Burkholder. He played in the late ‘40s, and was two years behind my brother who graduated in 1948. So I got to see Don in action. Although I was young, I remember his booming, rainbow punts that had great distance. Many years later I got to know him well when he was a resident at Willow Ridge. I would always tell him he was the greatest punter I ever saw. He told me that the Pirates were backed up inside the ten-yard line one game and he had to punt from the end zone.
BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School football team shrugged off a slow start to defeat visiting Ben Logan 33-30 in a seesaw 2025 season kickoff thriller on Friday, August 22 at Harmon Field.
The Pirates improved to 1-0 with the non-league victory, while BL starts 0-1 with the defeat.
Bluffton junior quarterback Tayte Giesige passed for four touchdowns and ran for another to pace the victorious offense. In all, he accounted for 327 yards in offense and five TDs.
ELIDA__The visiting Bluffton High School boys soccer team tied Elida 1-1 on Saturday night, August 23.
The Pirate record moved to 0-2-1 with the tie. Elida is 0-0-2 following the knot.
Neither team scored in the first half. But early in the second stanza, the Bulldogs untied the match. Elida’s Seth Warner broke the ice in the 41st minute, scoring the game’s first goal.
Twenty-four minutes later, Bluffton’s Brahlen August equalized the score 1-1 by netting the lone Pirate goal.
AUG 22 MEDIA RELEASE__A panel of Bluffton University faculty, staff, alumni and current students will present “Who is My Neighbor? Knowing, Loving, and Serving Our Neighbors” during Bluffton’s Civic Engagement Theme Introduction Forum at 11:00 a.m. on Sept. 2 in Yoder Recital Hall.
