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Just in time for Valentine's Day. Ten Thousand Villages offers a "buy one, get one 50 percent off" on all jewelry sale. The sale is from Monday, Feb. 6, through Tuesday, Feb. 14, according to Aphaphanh Nussbaum, store manager.

Check out the special display ad running now on The Icon or click on the ad image accompanying this story for some examples.

Krysti's Music Studio, South Main Street, Bluffton, offers this suggestion for beating the winter "blahs." Sign up for some music lessons.

The music studio offers a lessons in several instruments for all age groups. The phone number is 419-233-5255.


pears avenue: (perz av'enoo) A boutique specializing in mid-century, modern and vintage pieces; refurbished and repurposed home d'ecor.

Its front window offers an impressive view of Allen County Court House.

It's inside view offers a similar, impressive, selection of women's clothing. That selection attracts a loyal customer base from across Ohio including several from Bluffton.

It's Nitza's Ladies Boutique and Tailor Shop, downtown Lima at The Met Block, one of The Icon's newest advertisers. The Icon talked with owners Karen Barrington and Elizabeth Leis recently about their downtown Lima women's shop. Here's what we can share with Icon viewers:

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Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, has purchased a nuclear medicine scanner that provides high-quality images that describe both the nature and precise location of disease. This equipment helps physicians quickly and accurately diagnose conditions such as heart disease and cancerous tumors.

The new nuclear medicine scanner, called the Infinia Hawkeye 4, is an innovative hybrid scanner that provides enhanced images through a quick and painless scan that exposes the patient only to the necessary radiation dose.

Robert E. Sielschott, CPA, of Sielschott, Walsh, Keifer & Regula, Inc., has announced the publication of a new blog titled "The Small Business Policy Blog."

Sielschott intends to draw on his exposure to the small business community through his professional practice, his chairmanship of the National Federation of Independent Business Association, Allen County Area Action Council, and his interaction with politicians, regulators and taxing authorities.

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