Four-year-old Siren Morris is this year's Mennonite Memorial Home Easter egg hunt Icon poster child. Siren is the daughter of Megan and Courtnee Morris. She agreed to show the Icon the eggs she found at this year's egg hunt. In all, 3,000 Easter eggs, hidden in plain sight were all nabbed in under five minutes by a couple hundred young egg hunters.
HANOVER, Ind. - The Bluffton University baseball team built an early 6-0 lead and withstood a Panther rally that saw Hanover knot the score at six after six innings but the Beavers responded with three late tallies for a 9-6 win on Friday, March 27, 2015. Bluffton stays perfect atop the HCAC at 5-0 (12-5 overall), while host Hanover dipped to 7-7 and 3-3 in the conference.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, is fond of groundhogs. Likewise, Bluffton, Ohio, has a thing for beavers. The Icon found this friendly little guy in the Bluffton University bookstore enjoying a cup of coffee.
J. Norman Vercler died at 9:30 a.m. March 27, 2015, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. He had been a resident of Bluffton for 58 years.
He was born March 14, 1925, in Meadows, Ill., to the late Elmer and Naomi (Claudon) Vercler. He graduated from Chenoa High School and went on for further studies at Illinois State Normal University where he majored in science. After graduation, he began work at Mennonite Hospital in Bloomington as head medical technician, a position he held until 1956.
