Here's the Habegger’s filling station on North Main Street, across from what is now the Chinese restaurant.
Richard Jordan sent this classic photo to The Icon.
According to Rudi Steiner, the car under the canopy is a 1930-31 Model A Ford roadster, The car with the two gentlemen standing against it is a 1932 Plymouth roadster.
Additional observations:
• Richard Jordan: The man in white might be Mary Ann Jordan’s uncle, Myron “Mike” Reichenbach. The question is, “Did the Habegger station ever have a canopy?”
Dr. Sarah Cecire, professor of education, will discuss “Adventures in Antarctica” at Friday Colloquium on Dec. 2, 2016. The presentation is free and open to the public beginning at 4 p.m. in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
Cecire spent the fall 2015 semester on sabbatical researching, planning and studying Antarctica including a two-week trip to the continent. The pre-planning, along with the trip, resulted in the creation of 18 teaching units available to elementary teachers with Antarctica as the backdrop.
Sally Siferd led a Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs workshop on human resources for small businesses on Friday. Click here for the top five human resources issues for small business owners discussed in the workshop.
Dyanne Gregg had always worked in the medical field in some capacity and thought, “there had to be a better way to relieve pain, than handing out a pill.”
Then she discovered massage therapy. Dyanne obtained a massage therapy license in 2009, affirming it offers persons a “transition…the ability to transform body aches and pain to mobility.”
“Massage therapy is not a fix. Rather a way to retrain your body,” she said.
Icon viewers can join the “Race to Rudolph,” a Bluffton Hospital walking challenge.
The challenge is for all participants to walk 75 total miles (150,000 steps), which happens to be the distance from Bluffton Hospital to Rudolph, Ohio, and back again.
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Participants will keep a daily log of steps and record those steps on a card provided to them.
Once those steps are completed, the participant will submit the walking log for a chance to win some prizes.
