Kevin and Shelby Cluts, 252 S. Lawn Ave., won third place in this year's Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce residential lighting contest. They win a $50 chamber gift certificate. Click for a video of the Lawn Avenue scene.
Wilma M. Lehman, 91, died at 1:45 p.m. Dec. 20, 2012, at Richland Manor Nursing Home, Bluffton. She was born July 15, 1921, in Bluffton to the late Peter and Eunice (Burkholder) Lehman.
Wilma had worked at Triplett Corporation, Bluffton, and had also been a seamstress. She was a graduate of Bluffton High School.
Survivors include a brother Wade (Ladonna) Lehman of Columbus Grove and three sisters Wanda (Charles) Lyman of Denver, Colo., Lois Lyman of Kernersville, N.C. and Marjorie (Donald) Lyman of North Franklin, Conn.
Note: This is the first of a series of interviews and other features on Bluffton third graders. The Icon thanks third grade teachers, Ann Kingsley, Andy Armstrong, Janelle Bogart and Beth Raeburn, for participating in this project.
Dale E. Albright, 87 died at 8:30 P.M. Dec. 20, 2012 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Arrangements are pending at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Bluffton native, Richard Minck, most recently of Clearwater, Fla., died on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. He was born Sept. 14, 1928, to Harry and Mabel Minck.
He grew up in Bluffton, graduated from Bluffton High School in 1946 and from Bluffton College. He attended Ohio State University.
He married Helen James. Together, they were philanthropists, particularly interested in music (the Florida Orchestra) and the arts (St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and the Dali Museum).
If the North Pole were your head and the South Pole your feet, today your head would be too cold and your feet too warm. That's a metaphor for the axial tilt of the earth on this day, with all of us north of the equator experiencing our shortest winter day and everyone south the longest summer day.
On this day you will have your longest noon shadow of the year. Assuming any sun comes out at all today. After today daylight in our hemisphere increases faster the farther north you are.
