We've posted hundreds of license plates on The Icon, but this one is in a class by itself.
Study it for a moment. What do you see? You see a traditional Bluffton "YZ" but the plate is not Ohio. The plate is Arizona.
What's going on here? The answer is that "70 YZ" once upon a time belonged to James F. West of Sunset Drive. His son, John, moved to Arizona and took a little of Bluffton with him. John obtained the vanity plate for his dad's old Ohio plate.
If you could help the Bluffton elementary school get a chance to win $15,000 toward the purchase of new computers, would you chip in and help? Certainly you would.
The way to participate is pretty simple. Here's how it works:
To help improve school technology funding in Allen and surrounding counties, Cartridge World is giving local schools the chance to win $15,000 to be used toward the purchase of new school computers.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce's website (www.explorebluffton.com) is now accessible from The Bluffton Icon homepage.
Icon viewers interested in visiting the website will find it at the bottom of the Icon home page. Simply click on the chamber's green and white logo and you will be redirected to the chamber site.
The chamber has 163 members. All members are listed on the site and their websites are linked to the site.
You've seen this bumpersticker in Bluffton. Here's what it means:
The designer, Piotr Mlodozeniec's basic coexistence design is uncomplicated and easy to understand. The design uses three symbols that stand for Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Mlodozeniec modified the word "coexist" in the following ways:
In an effort to help relieve some of the hardship and financial difficulty of the depressed economy in the Pandora-Gilboa area, the churches of Pandora and the Gilboa United Methodist Church are offering food boxes on the last Saturday of each month for households in the Pandora-Gilboa school district who find themselves in need.
The boxes are designed to provide nine meals (three breakfasts, three lunches and three dinners) for a family of four.
