Elaine Harris will receive the Bluffton Lions Club Citizen of the Year award for 2011 during a 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, dinner meeting at Maple Crest Senior Living Community, Bluffton.
Harris and her husband, Bob, own Twin Lakes Campground, 3506 Township Road 34, Bluffton. Harris is a vice-president of the Bluffton Lions Club, is on the board of the Bluffton Lions Foundation and chairs of the club's pancake breakfast and chicken barbecue.
In addition to her role in the Bluffton Lions, she is active in many other Bluffton organizations.
After the first round judging for the Ohio Governor's High School Art Show Bluffton High School had seven pieces selected to go down to Columbus for state judging according to Vicki Garmon, BHS art teacher.
The state judging was this last weekend and there was approximately 3,000 pieces of art that were selected at an earlier judging to be there, but only 300 pieces were selected to get in the Govenor's show, Garmon told The Icon.
Sarah Schriner of Bluffton finished third in the Second District American Legion Oratorical Scholarship competition. The event was held Feb. 25 at Wright State Univeristy-Lake Campus.
She was sponsored by the Bluffton American Legion Post 382. She received awards from Sam Reineke at the March 5 Bluffton American Legion post meeting.
Art students in Bluffton's seventh grade created this "group grid" drawing of Vincent Van Gogh, according to Nicole Anderson, middle school art teacher.
"Each student received a small piece of a painting by Van Gogh," she said. "The goal was to duplicate and enlarge the smaller piece using oil pastels."
The students put their pieces back together in order to come up with the large composite, on display in the hallway of the middle school art department. The image is a copy of Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. It was created in January of 1889.
Citizens National Bank (CNB) this week named Sandy Nickels as VP/Project Manager.
In this position, Nickels will be responsible for the Operation Center's Project Department. Her main function will be scheduling and administering software projects and software systems bank wide.
"The leadership and organizational skills that Sandy has exhibited in past operational projects makes her an excellent choice to head up the bank's new project management team," said Janet Dukes, SVP/Chief Operations Officer for the institution.
Carol Bradley worked with three Bluffton police chiefs, three Bluffton tax administrators, three village administrators and five Bluffton mayors. On March 21, she'll leave all that behind as she retires from work at the "front desk" of the Village of Bluffton.
Since Feb. 5, 1990, Bradley has handled all utility payments, billings, answered the village telephone and dealt with the public as a village employee in the Bluffton town hall.
