All Bluffton Icon News

Bluffton council has scheduled a special meeting for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.

The meeting, in the third floor of the town hall is for the purpose to discuss personnel.

Load Lincoln Hall furniture donated to Habitat for Humanity

You can help Habitat for Humanity on Tuesday, Dec. 4 right here in Bluffton. 

At 9 a.m, volunteers needed to load furniture (45 desks, 35 hutches for those desks, 25 dressers and 12 bunk beds) at Lincoln Hall, Bluffton University campus. 

The furniture is being donated to the Lima Habitat for Humanity ReStore. The money raised from the resale of these items will help build affordable, decent homes in the Lima Area.

Please contact Mark Suderman, Volunteer Coordinator, if you can help:  [email protected] or 419-222-4937.

When you drive through Ada you can't miss the railroad depot park.

The park has a long history in the community. Here's one of the earliest photos of the park. This is a colorized post card from the collection of Lee Crouse. According to Jimmy Wilson, the Civil War cannon is aimed toward Fort Sumter, South Carolina, where the war erupted on April 12, 1861.

According to Crouse: "The girl on the bench at the railroad park was Alice W. Gessaman-Cotner born May 23, 1910, and died in Bluffton May 18, 2004.

The Icon spotted Nut Job in Bluffton on a Chevrolet truck. It's a Hocking County plate.

Two tree-lighting ceremonies in early December

Bridge Hospice, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, will host its annual “Light Up a Life” tree-lighting ceremonies in Bowling Green and Findlay this December. Through a tree-lighting and candle-lighting ceremony, loves ones who have passed will be honored. Light refreshments will be provided. 

The Bowling Green ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. in the Georgian Room at Heritage Corner, located at 1069 Klotz Road, Bowling Green.

Dr. Nate Regier, CEO and founding owner of Next Element, will speak during Bluffton University’s Forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Yoder Recital Hall. The title of his presentation is “Conflict Without Casualties: Compassionate Accountability and the Art of Struggling With.”

During the presentation, the best-selling author will show through humorous anecdotes and compelling stories how to reframe our relationship with conflict and us it as an energy source for positive change.

Pages