Seven area restaurants and businesses put their best soups on the table and 160 votes (by diners) later the winners were:
• First place - Luke’s Bar and Grill, ham and potato corn chowder
• Second place - Jeanne’s Kitchen, Michael’s cream of asparagus
• Third place - Larson’s Barbecue fire-roasted tomato
Turning 16 is always a birthday to remember. And celebrating it on Feb. 29 is a birthday few would forget.
Zoie Joseph, Bluffton High School freshman, will do just that. She’ll blow out either 4 or 16 candles on Feb. 29. That’s because she’s a leap year baby.
She hopes to celebrate this year, appropriately as any 4-year-old. She wants a Strawberry Short Cake with 4 candles and a bunch of toys gifts to open.
One of this community’s favorite sons, David Rodabaugh, is now a Lima Municipal Court judge.
He joins a court stacked with Bluffton connections. Judge Tammie K. Hursh, also a municipal court judge, is from Bluffton. Richard Warren, Bluffton native and former common pleas court judge, is a court magistrate.
Rodabaugh fills a seat left vacant upon the retirement of Judge RicKard Workman. Ohio Governor John Kasich appointed Rodabaugh, a lifetime attorney, who practiced in Lima and Bluffton, to the court.
First of our series on Icon viewers born in a leap year on Feb. 29.
Reagan Mittendorf and two carloads of her friends will spend a day this weekend at Sky Zone in Fort Wayne. It’s an indoor trampoline park and it’s Reagan’s birthday party.
Depending on who’s counting, Reagan will be either 3 or 12. Her birthday is Feb. 29. She’s in a special group of people who were born in a leap year on the “extra” day.
