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Happy 90th Birthday
Mom (Midge)
June 29
From Sue, Canda, Renee, Kathy
If you would like to send a birthday card to:
Midge Moser
649 Riley St
Bluffton, OH 45817
 

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Icon viewers:
The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library want to thank all the businesses and companies that sponsored the 2018 Friends 5K Run/Walk for Literacy. 

Your generosity is very much appreciated! A special thank you to Shirley's for their generous donation and help in getting the information about the Run/Walk out to so many people. We also want to thank Mayor Rich Johnson, the EMS, and the many volunteers who helped to keep the runners and walkers safe.

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Richard Bucher plays the accordian while leading a Swiss Day audience in David Rothen's new year's carols. Swiss was was June 24. A video of the two carols is posted on the Icon and several additional videos featuring Ted Cunningham, Dr. Oliver Lugibihl, Winford Bauman and Bucher conversing in Swiss dialect. Click here for those videos.

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Thanks to a Audre Reichenbach-Vugrinac, a classmate in this photo, we have a much clearer idenfication of class members.

This is the second grade with teacher Kathy Augsburger during the 1967-68 school year.

Top row, from left, Kathy Augsburger, Carol Kaufman, Audre Reichenbach, Jon Parkins, Beth Alt, Alisa Simon, Verle Dalke, Sandy Mulvania, Dick Kiene a d Tamara Carmack.

Middle row, from left, Brent Heineman, Cathy Ferrall, Jackie Laing, Bill Little, _____, Kathy Ernsberger, either Carol or Cathy__________(she was a twin), Stephanie Schmidt, Karen Augsburger.

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CAP AM,  on a Franklin County plate, was spotted on a red Honda Civic parked on the ONU campus.

Taking my kids away without first proving it is lawful, ain’t right, it ain’t right, it just ain’t right

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Note: This column comes to The Icon from PeaceVoice Program, Oregon Peace Institute.

By Kary Love
Being a lawyer, I have long been interested in and have studied the question, where did law come from?

It turns out to have been the result of a centuries long, hard struggle by people over generations as humans evolved to try to incorporate justice into their villages or tribes.  Generation built upon generation, honing and improving law.

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