Beginning Friday, Jan. 25, area families will be encouraged to add fruits and vegetables to the daily menu, limit screen time and add physical activity as part of the 5-2-1-Almost None Family Challenge sponsored by BFR.
This challenge is part of the annual Keeping Active Wellness campaign that begins Jan. 21. The 5-2-1-Almost None program has been offered through schools and communities by the "Let's Go" organization.
Melting snow and a weekend of rainfall is rising the Riley. As of Sunday evening, the Little Riley was beginning to flood the old baseball diamond below the library.
The Big Riley had very swift moving water and also continued to rise.
While all this causes concern in Bluffton, the communities of Ottawa and Findlay are also watching the rising waters of the Blanchard.
The Internal Revenue Service announced today annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2013, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes from the recently passed American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
The tax items for 2013 of greatest interest to most taxpayers include the following changes.
Now, the internet is ripe with many cool things. We at the Icon thought this was pretty neat.
Brandon Martin-Anderson created a map that contains a dot for every single person counted in the last U.S. and Canadian censuses. That means 341,817,095 dots.
According to the site, he wanted "an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc." So he wrote a computer program and fed in the information from the census.
The next lunchtime meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club will be held Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Maple Crest at noon.
The featured speaker will be Peter Previte, professor of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. He will be speaking on the topic of a “Brief History of the Federal Food/Drug/Cosmetic Act”.
In additonal business, the meeting will include the induction of some new members.
If members have not already signed up for lunch, they may do so by emailing [email protected]
