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Watching the removal of one of Bluffton's towering, shade giving trees on South Main, neighbors Jeanette Reineke and Pam Weisenbarger were reminded of a poem they both knew by heart, "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.

Captured here by Icon photographer Jamie Nygaard, they recited the poem for her.

Trees

BY JOYCE KILMER

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A huge tree was removed from the treelawn in front of the south Main Street home of Phil and Pam Weisenbarger. Its age (approximately 100 years) and girth can be appreciated in this vertical view.

By Robert McCool

In her twenty-sixth novel Sandra Brown takes us back to Prohibition era Texas in order to present an ambitious story about a couple bound to come together over illegal whiskey making. It is also about 1920s societal norms for women.

Blind Tiger  (Grand Central Publishing, Hatchette Book Group; ISBN 978-1-5387-5196) is a big five-course dinner that fills you completely up and satisfies your appetite for action and romance. Really, it is a big book with room for each character's development into a fully fleshed human with a human's desires and drives.

Frederick Lyle Arnold, 92, passed away December 31, 2021 at Lima Memorial Health System.  Fred was born May 10, 1929 in Lima to the late Merril and Velma (Yant) Arnold.  On January 18, 1959 he married Pat Marquart Arnold.

We see you, Icon readers in Putnam County. Here an update from the Putnam County District Library on January activities. For more information, visit https://mypcdl.org/.

 

Ready To Read VIRTUAL/ZOOM Storytimes

January 3-27 Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m.  Email Valerie at  [email protected] for login.

 

Facebook Kids Winter Kitchen Science

The January dinner meeting for members of the Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main, will be held at noon on January 10.  The meal is free but reservations are required by January 5.

The meal will be catered by the Dough Hook and sponsored by Sunrise Senior Living. The menu is soup and salad.

Mary Hofstetter will emcee the event and the program is “a competition of minds. In other words, game day!” according to director Tonya Meyer.

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