After 60 years, our estimate: Scott has played for 2,750 Sundays, over 9,000 preludes, offertories and postludes, and over 14,000 hymns and songs – not including music for weddings, funerals and mid-week Lenten services
See note at bottom of story and lots of photos -
Two Bluffton churches could not get through their Sunday morning worship services without Scott Edwards.
He has a reserved front row seat at English Lutheran Church and First United Methodist. That’s because he is the organist of both congregations.
On Nov. 24, English Lutheran recognized Edwards for his 60-plus years as organist at 111 Grove Street.
Jocelyn Ochoa’s Christmas art work is this year’s $200 scholarship winner in Reichenbach and Steiner, CPAs, and Samuel W. Diller Co. L.P.A, holiday window artwork contest.
Judged on Nov. 25, the winner’s painting was among 14 judged by a three-judge panel including Jim Fultz, Haley Rossman and Kathy Basinger.
Joceyln’s painting and the 13 other art pieces are displayed in the front window of Reichenbach and Steiner, 140 N. Main St., Bluffton.
Students in the competition are artists from Bluffton HS. Vickie Garmon is the BHS art teacher.
Eric Brough, VP Operations Manager at Citizens National Bank, recently graduated from the 2019 OBL Bank Management School sponsored by the Ohio Bankers League.
Brough was one of 34 students who completed the one-week program in early October.
One of the longest-standing educational traditions in the Ohio banking industry, the School was established in 1955.
It offers bankers from across the state to enhance their skills in bank operations and management, and helps them understand the impact changes in the economy have on the profitability of a bank.
This month's club newsletter is attached at the bottom of this story.
Three Bluffton middle school artists are winners in this year’s Bluffton Lions Club peace poster contest. The artists were introduced at the Nov. 19 Lions Club meeting.
Winners:
1st: Karlee Geesaman, daughter of Kyle and Mindy Geesaman
2nd: Noah Bricker, son of Tyler and Sara Bricker
3rd: Adie Hanefeld, daughter of William and Rebecca Hanefeld
Danielle Novak, a Bluffton High School senior, is the Icon’s artist of the month.
She has taken Art I, Design I, Design II and is now taking Design III.
For the art project featured in this story, the prompt was "looking through something."
She said, “I decided to make a reduction print, in which the viewer is "looking through" a magnifying glass at a boy sitting alone in a park. My goal was to create a piece focusing on someone who nobody else seems to notice.”
The Icon held posting this photo by Marvin Foster for an appropriate moment between fall and winter sports seasons.
There was too much static last week for this picture to get its proper attention.
Holding the microphone is Tim Stried, Ohio High School Athletic Association director of information services. In the photo he presents Bluffton's boys' soccer team its Division III state runner-up trophy.
