Birchaven Village will be holding its annual Bazaar Days craft and bake sale Friday, Dec. 8 through Friday, Dec. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Birchaven Gift Shop, 15100 Birchaven Lane, Findlay.
The event will feature a variety of items handmade by residents, staff, volunteers and families. Items for sale include:
* Homemade candy including fudge, buckeyes, turtles, peppermint bark and chocolate-covered pretzels
Bluffton improved to 2-1 on the season with a 71-49 victory at USV. BHS led 34-13 at halftime after outscoring USV 15-4 in the second quarter.
Four Lady Pirates scored in double figures for a balanced attack. Alivia Koenig scored 15 including four 3’s, Averey Rumer and Libby Schaadt each score 13 and Katie Prater 12. Kayla White led the team in rebounding from her guar position with 7. Ashley Eachus and Schaadt nabbed 6 each with Rumer and Prater collecting 5. As a team, BHS outboarded USV 42-32.
Bluffton’s boys basketball team opens the 2017-18 campaign Friday evening with a home contest against Leipsic. The Pirates will look to continue their momentum after making the District Tournament the past two seasons. BHS finished with a 13-12 record last year including a 4-4 mark in NWC play.
New to this year's Blaze of Lights is a lighted Christmas tree that goes above Main Street rooftops. Here's the view from Citizens National Bank. Watch the Icon all December as we feature holiday lights of Main Street businesses, residences, Gift of Giving and Ream holiday folk art display.
The Bluffton Community Assistance Program is busy at this time of year. Here’s a chat the Icon had with Jami Crawfis, who directs the program's food pantry.
Jami, are there families in the service area of the food pantry that need assistance at Christmas?
In all, we have 64 families already adopted. We have three individuals and two families with older teenagers still to adopt.
The adopting families will provide fresh, frozen and/or canned food items (or even gift cards to a grocery store) for each family as well as gifts from their wish list.
A one-of-a-kind piece of Bluffton history and one of the community’s oldest known objects is for sale.
It’s both functional and a work of art. Based upon its history, the object comes up for sale only twice every century.
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Its provenance includes residents (from present to originally owner) Richard Boehr, Dick and Bob Millager, Charles Hankish, Sr., D.S. Flick and maybe even D.L. Goble.
The piece is a combination safe on four wheels. It weighs several hundred pounds.
