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Icon viewers interested in developing a winter workout routine can get help from Bluffton Family Recreation.

Matt Wannemacher, personal trainer, is available for BFR members in a free consultant basis to help develop a workout plan.

“We will talk about each individual’s goals, where the person is at the moment exercise-wise, and where the person wants to be,” he said.

The workout plan will help the BFR member get started. Wannemacher, a BFR staff member, is always available to answer questions.

When it closes or opens later in the morning

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Bluffton Family Recreation, 2015 Snider Road, follows winter storm level indicators in determining when it closes due to the weather.

Here's the BFR weather closure policy:
• Level 1 - BFR opens at 8 a.m. - and all classes are cancelled.
• Level 2 - BFR opens at 10 a.m.
• Level 3 - BFR is closed

For more information contact BFR at 419-358-4150.

"As a team you can achieve more playing together than as a group of individuals"

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15 minutes with Eric Garmatter
Bluffton High School girls' basketball coach

Eric, when you aren't coaching basketball, what do you do?
I work very hard for Coca-Cola.

When you attended Bluffton High School what sports did you play?
I played football, basketball and baseball at Bluffton.

How many hours a week might you average in your coaching duties during the season?
25-30 hours.

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A reception for the Bluffton University art exhibit featuring three Goshen College art professors will be held 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11. The exhibit runs to Feb. 23 and includes work from Randy Horst, professor of art, Merrill Krabill, professor of art and John Mishler, associate professor of art. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. Gallery Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

And the menu is Italian

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Jeanne Previte announced on Facebook that Friday, Feb. 9, is her "retirement night" from Jeanne's Kitchen, 112 Vine St., Bluffton.

The evening's menu is appropriately Italian.

"We will have Italian antipasto appetizers, Italian wedding soup, Italian vegetable
salad, lasagna or cheese ravioli, Pete's sausage peppers and onions and home dessert," she said.

Dinner hours are 5 to 7:30 p.m. Reservations are suggested by calling 419-234-8650.

The restaurant will continue under new management. Watch the Icon for an announcement.

Vasko Vasileski: “Being a chef and preparing food brings people together. It’s a universal language.”

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“I’m not a title guy. I just like to cook,” Vasko Vasileski, the new head chef at Mustard Seed Café told us as he described his restaurant background in a chat earlier this week.

Vasko joined Mustard Seed, at 562 N. Main St., Bluffton, this past fall and he is slowly putting his own chef stamp on the local restaurant.

Originally from Macedonia, how did he land in Bluffton? Vasko’s wife is in a post-doctorate study and is an Ohio Northern University law professor. The couple, with their two children, live in Ada.

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