On July 3 members from the Bluffton American Legion Post cleaned up storm debris at the Steinmetz residence on South Main Street. The trees that fell where from the home of Melvena Lewis. Her husband " Dutch" was a WWII veteran. Members from the post who assisted were Dennis Morrison, Tom Benroth, Tom Craig, Bob Amstutz and Sam Reineke. Bob Amstutz is in this photo.
Bluffton resident Dr. J.D. Yoder, professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio Northern University, along with Jeffery West, BSME'12, Dr. Eric Baumgartner, dean of the College of Engineering, and Drs. Mathias Perrollaz, Michael Seelinger, and Matthew Robinson of the University of Notre Dame, are authors of the paper titled "Experiments comparing precision of stereo-vision approaches for control of an industrial manipulator."
Yoder presented the work at the 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics June 17-21, 2012, at Quebec City, Canada.
Bluffton American Legion Post 382 held a cookout and installation ceremony of post officers at the Buckeye Park Shelteron June 18.
Forty persons attended, according to Dennis Morrison, PR officer.
Following the picnic the new officers were sworn in by 2nd District Commander Tom Faller from Post 387, Minster.
Story and photo by Jake Dowling, Icon summer intern
Heard of the saying, 'there's no place like home?' For Gordon Diller, funeral director of Chiles-Laman Funeral Home, Bluffton, there is no better place for a home than a funeral home.
"It has always been nice to work here," Diller said. "My home is upstairs and so I have always been able to raise my family in a funeral home."
Funeral homes that serve as a home are not as common as they used to be, but for Diller, that has meant the world to him.
In a recent Blog post, Dr. Allen Power, MD, tells the following story. (Dr. Power is an Eden Mentor at St. John's Home in Rochester, N.Y., and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester.)
One consequence of opening a new living space like our Green Houses is that it lays bare some aspects of institutional care that never occurred to me before. This seems to happen with regularity these days. Here's a story.
The SHANNON Service Club has announced the list of donors to its Main Street flag project, according to Duane Bollenbacher of the club. In addition to the list on The Icon, donors are listed in the display box at Citizens National Bank.
To view this donor list open the attachment at the bottom of this story.
