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Eight teachers recognized

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Eight Bluffton Middle School teachers were recognized by the Ohio Department of Education for their efforts on creating “Night at the Museum."

Teachers from left, Jared Byers, Janelle Bogart, Natalie Armstrong, Robin Ault, Cindy Lee, Jackie Bourassa, Lauren Moser and Sandy Karhoff.

This past year’s museum night in April was a cross-cultural project with Language Arts and Social Studies and involved 260 sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Over 900 persons visited the museum during its one-night event.

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Here's a Bluffton Christmas card from 93 seasons ago. It's mailed with a 1 cent stamp to the Icon owner's grandmother, Bertha Hahn, 216 W. Elm St., Bluffton, from her brother, Werner Althaus in Toledo.  The postmark is Dec. 15, 1923. The card's message is below.

and how to construct gingerbread houses

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Photos by Jamie Nygaard
Leave it to Kindergartners to have all the fun.

LOTS OF PHOTOS BELOW -

On the last day of school of 2016 lots of exciting events took place in the Bluffton elementary school.

One was a Christmas party in Kindergarten with parents,  grandparents and great-grandparents invited. It wasn't just any old party. It was a gingerbread house decorating event plus the performance of a winter skit that the students had memorized.

Tuesday's middle school Pirate Amazing Adventure Day

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A Pirate Amazing Adventure Day couldn’t have been better. It took placeTuesday, the last day of classes for Bluffton middle schools students.

LOTS OF JAMIE NYGAARD PHOTOS BELOW -

The Icon understand it worked something like this (if we are incorrect blame Jaime Nygaard, who provided us with the rules):

A highlight of the season was a shopping trip to downtown Lima

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No question about it.

My memories of the best Christmas ever come in a package wrapped from stores
located in the Lima public square.

I know. It’s sounds impossible to viewers born after Neil A. walked on the moon;
but it’s true.

There was nothing...nothing like going to Lima and shopping downtown for
Christmas in the 1950s.

Using poetic license, here's the Icon's version of a familiar story

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The Icon offers this Christmas story, repeated from last Christmas.

In the eighth year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Jordan was fourth district representative.

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