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.
Susan Pancake recently joined the staff of First National Bank as an Operations Administrator.
She joins First National with over 25 years of banking experience. She is a graduate of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Mich. Pancake is active in many civic and community activities and is a member of St. Michael the Archangel Church. She and husband, Kevin, and son, Zac, reside in Findlay.
As the Operations Administrator, Pancake is responsible for managing the mortgage and deposit operations staff in the Pandora office.
This past school year senior sociology students from Bluffton High School engaged in a face-to-face cross-cultural exchange with youth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) through a Global Nomads Group program as part of a Students Rebuild challenge to raise awareness of humanitarian crises around the world.
Global Nomads Group, an international nonprofit, fosters dialogue and understand among the world's youth.
A book signing party in July at Common Grounds will launch a children's book titled "Look For Something Good," written by Bluffton resident Steve Yoder.
Yoder says the book is a story with a lesson, adding, "It's a parable, which deals with a tough set of circumstances involving a young boy." Yoder, who is lead pastor of First Mennonite Church, Bluffton, says that the book is written for youth, particularly at the fourth grade level.
