Regional news

Marcene Spangler will celebrate her 85th birthday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11, at Maple Crest. The party is open the public.

Bluffton's Relay For Life wrap-up meeting Thursday, Aug. 2, at 6 p.m. on the third floor of Bluffton's town hall building, according to Adam Blevins of the American Cancert Society.

The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association will sponsor its annual summer community worship service on Sunday, July 29. The service begins at 9 a.m. and is held on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn.
The theme is "For the Beauty of the Earth" and the service will continue the VBS theme from the previous week.
This year, there will be only one offering taken, and that will be for the community food pantry.

A severe weather front has moved through parts of Ohio July 26
causing widespread damage and customer outages.
As of 7:15 p.m., just over 59,000 customers are without power. Most of these customers are located in the New Philadelphia, Columbus, and Newark areas.

This means there are at least six other "Peace" plates in Ohio. The Icon spotted this one on Main Street earlier this week. It's a Putnam County plate.

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather information for July 26:
The atmosphere will become hot and extremely unstable ahead of an approaching cold front today. The result will be severe thunderstorms
over much of the Upper Ohio Valley. Scattered severe thunderstorms will erupt early this afternoon across Indiana and northwest Ohio.
Severe storms will become more numerous as they spread southeast across the heart of AEP Ohio late this afternoon. Expect damaging wind gusts to 65 mph over Ohio.

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