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It's a concert on the lawn

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Ice cream, a warm summer evening, music and friends.

What else is there?

LOTS OF PHOTOS BELOW

5 Myles High, a Bluffton-based jazz combo featuring a trumpet, bass, vocals, piano and drums, performed during this year’s Mennonite Memorial Home concert on the lawn ice cream social.

The social was Sunday, Aug. 20, on the back lawn of the Mennonite Home, 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton.

Members of the group are Myles Bowers, trumpet, Sean McNeal, percussion, Krysti Schhey, piano and vocals, and Philip Schey, bass and vocals.

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FROM ADA ICON - Former Ada resident Mary Howard sent the Icon this photo of yesterday's solar eclipse with the following explanation: I live in Worland, Wyoming, but am originally from Ada.

I watched the eclipse at Gooseberry Badlands between Worland and Meeteetse, Wyoming.  Buddy (my dog) and I sat up in the parking lot of the Badland's scenic area. The traffic was crazy to try and go anywhere else.

The starlings came out and the crickets started chirping as I was sitting there.

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Here's another look at solar eclipse watchers on Aug. 21 at the Bluffton Public Library. Here are Janet Yoder with her mother, Miriam Jantzi, and son, Jeff Yoder, in the back. Behind them are Jami Rehm with her daughter, Rebekah. Jamie Nygaard photo.

 

Dr. Leah Eiden, M.D., will see patients in Bluffton this fall

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Dr. Leah Eiden, M.D., Bluffton’s newest general practitioner, feels right at home in Bluffton Hospital.

After all, she was born in the hospital. The first person she met in Bluffton was Dr. Howard Shelly, M.D., who delivered her. Dr. Eiden will see patients soon at Bluffton Primary Care, an office currently under renovation.

The Icon sat down with her recently for Q and A. Her youngest son, Jack, sat in on our interview. Here’s what we’d like to share with viewers.

Icon and BlufftonPirates.com link up for stronger local coverage

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Two Bluffton websites that keep their fingers on the pulse of community activities linked together this week to provide easier access for viewers to both sites.

The sites are Bluffton Icon.com and BlufftonPirates.com.

This partnership means that viewers win. All Bluffton High School sports are now on Bluffton Icon, and, BlufftonPirates.com provides its viewers to an easy link to all news items about Bluffton posted on the Icon.

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School starts next week.

Several improvements to the buildings took place this summer. One permanent structure, however, is the building plate of the Bluffton elementary school lobby.

Placed in 1956 when the school opened, it lists the important players in the school system at that time.

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