Greg Conkling, with Rick and Ruth Grehalvia talk with Tim Clark, one of the new owners of Greg's Pharmacy during a Jan. 11 open house for the new owners.
Bluffton resident Jeff Sprague was named president of the Allen Economic Development Group yesterday, succeeding outgoing president Marcel Wagner, who has held the position since 1994.
The announcement was part of the Allen Economic Development Group five-year Leadership Transition Plan.
"As chair of the Allen Economic Development Board, I would like to thank Marcel for his years of service and appreciate his contribution to the Allen Economic Development Group," said Eric Pohjala, board chairman.
Carlin Carpenter told Friday's (Jan. 11) Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast audience that this was the earliest he's been up since his kitchen was on fire several years ago.
Now, the internet is ripe with many cool things. We at the Icon thought this was pretty neat.
Brandon Martin-Anderson created a map that contains a dot for every single person counted in the last U.S. and Canadian censuses. That means 341,817,095 dots.
According to the site, he wanted "an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc." So he wrote a computer program and fed in the information from the census.
BFR Sports and Fitness has announced open registration for the following youth and adult activities:
Indoor Soccer
BFR Sports & Fitness is currently accepting registration for Session 3 of the indoor soccer league.
This session begins the week of January 6 and runs for 5 weeks plus a tournament. There are divisions for U8 players all the way through adults. Cost for this league is $440 per team. Deadline for registration is January 28 and all are reminded that divisions may fill early.
The next lunchtime meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club will be held Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Maple Crest at noon.
The featured speaker will be Peter Previte, professor of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. He will be speaking on the topic of a “Brief History of the Federal Food/Drug/Cosmetic Act”.
In additonal business, the meeting will include the induction of some new members.
If members have not already signed up for lunch, they may do so by emailing [email protected]
