Mark Wolke is the winner of the "practice round," of the Icon's fall football contest. He picked the winner in every game. With this week's contest (Week 2, deadline 5 p.m. Friday), starts the cummulative contest. Each contestant's points will be tabulated and in addition to a weekly winner, one contestant will be the overall winner at the end of the season.
Several prizes will be presented to the weekly winner and overall winner. Those prizes will be announced next week.
Bluffton Lions will hold five sight screenings in September. Screenings take place between Sept. 9 and 17. They are held at:
• Bluffton Day Care Center
• Allen East grade school
• Hilty Home Day Care, Pandora
• Bluffton Community Pre-School (two times)
The Lions are involved in several other community activities. To read about those event, open the September newsletter, which is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Nine-year-old Eli Okuley, a Bluffton fourth grader, is a first year 4-H member of the Beaverdam Bunch 4-H Club.
He attended the 2013 Allen County Fair and entered Breeding Rabbits as his project. Eli's interest in rabbits began at the age of 5 when he obtained his first rabbit, a Dutch breed at a garage sale and named her Sophie. That same garage sale rabbit attended the Allen County Fair this year and helped him receive his Showmanship award.
Chris Keller, vice president, clinical services, Blanchard Valley Health Systems, is the new Chief Administrative Officer of Bluffton Hospital. She was introduced to Bluffton council members on Monday evening.
She is replacing William Watkins, who has accepted a new assignment in the BVHS in Findlay. For the past 18 months in addition to his duties as Bluffton’s CAO, Watkins has also served as CAO of Blanchard Valley Medical Practices.
Watkins’ last day at Bluffton is Tuesday. He joined the hospital staff in July of 1979 as Director of Finance and eventually became CAO.
From left to right – Rose Hostetler, Jeanine and Floyd Hartman
Many Maple Crest elders lived on farms in their childhoods or in their adult years, so it was a real treat for some of them to tour the Challenged Champions Equestrian Center in Ottawa recently.
Earlier this month residents of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio made homemade ice cream. They sent the Icon the recipe. They even provided some photos. Here goes:
