Is it true that you can see the Space Needle from the bathroom in your house? How does that compare to what you saw out the bathroom of your house on the rural Pandora farm where you grew up?
Yes! I can see the Space Needle from my bathroom window! Although a beautiful site, I am partial to the pond and pine trees I viewed from my Pandora farm.
You graduated from PGHS when? How did you choose to attend Anderson (IN) University? What was your major? What kind of extracurricular activities were you involved in?
Stella Crown, the creation of Pandora writer Judy Clemens, is at it again.
And if you don't know Stella, The Boston Globe calls her "A quirky, tough female protagonist with a soft center."
Clemens, author of the Stella Crown and Grim Reaper Mystery Series, has just released “Leave Tomorrow Behind,” the latest in her Stella Crown mystery series. The book is published by Poisoned Pen Press.
Bluffton has its own cartoonist. Though not nationally syndicated, Maia Woods-Yee, Bluffton High School senior, creates lots of cartoons using the anime style, popular in a series that tells a story.
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Woods-Yee is enrolled in a Design II art class where she works on some of her cartoons. And, she works on these computer-generated pieces outside of school hours, too.
She first creates an outline of the single-frame cartoon and then works to fill it in. Some of her cartoons are in color; others are black and white.
The Icon talked with Santa Claus, during his downtown Bluffton visit on Saturday. We discussed everything starting from Dec. 26 all the way to Dec. 25. By the way, Santa has a facebook page and may be found on LinkedIn. Here's a small portion of our talk.
You travel all over the globe. How do you do it?
By reindeer. But, you need to know that reindeer only fly on Christmas Eve.
Laura Strahan correctly spelled “abstruse,” an adjective meaning difficult to understand. And in spelling correctly this obscure – by definition – word, she won the 2013-14 Bluffton Middle School spelling bee.
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The eighth grader now represents the school in the Allen County spelling bee held in January.
