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The ArtSpace/Lima Photography Club will present its annual juried exhibition from Friday, Jan. 4 through Saturday, Feb. 16 in The Ellen Nelson Gallery at ArtSpace.

The exhibit will feature 114 total photographs: 90 photographs by 38 adult photographers and 24 photographs by 15 youth photographers. In all, 47 photographers entered 183 photographs.  Entry categories include: Animals, Architecture, Black and White, Landscape, Plants, Portraiture, Special Effects, Still Life, Miscellaneous, and Youth.

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The Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio has provided the Icon with the worship schedule for MMH.  Services are held on Sunday and Tuesday throughout the month.

Sunday, Jan. 6, 9:30 a.m. - Chaplain Bill Herr

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 6:30 p.m. - Carol Clements, St. John UCC

Sunday, Jan. 13, 9:30 a.m. - Chaplain Bill Herr

Tuesday, Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m. - Communiuon: Rev. Kevin Mohr and Chaplain Bill Herr

Sunday, Jan. 20, 9:30 a.m. - Wally Geiger

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Guy Verhoff, Icon weather observer provided a summary of our December weather.  Here goes:

The high temprature in December was 66 degrees on Dec. 3. The low was 14 degrees on Dec. 28. The average December 2012 temperature was 36.9 degrees. The normal average for December is 29.2 degrees.

The precipitation for December 2012 was 3.03 inches. The normal average precipitation is 2.69 inches.  Additionally, December snow totals were 12.7 inches.  All in all, we seem do be doing a little catch up from our dry November. 

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Persons interested in volunteering at the Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton, are invited to contact Mary Ring, volunteer coordinator.

Volunteers are needed on Sunday mornings to wheel residents to the Sunday worship service in the MMH chapel.

Volunteers are scheduled once a quarter, leaving ample time for volunteers to retain their own chuch and Sunday routines. Volunteers are trained on their first Sunday. Persons interested may contact Ring at 419-358-1015, extension 248.

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Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton invites persons in the community to donate large print books to its library.

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Dorothy J. "Dottie" Edinger, 81 of Bluffton died at 2:45 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

She was born January 7, 1931 in Mt. Cory to the late John and Anna (Gorby) Bowersox. On June 28, 1953 she married Norman Edinger and he died December 5, 1992.

Dottie retired from Bluffton Hospital. She was a member of Ebenezer Mennonite Church, Bluffton.  She was a 1948 graduate of Mt. Cory High School

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