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Consider sitting in the Relay "dunk tank"

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 16, 2010 - 6:01am

Message to Icon viewers:

Dunking booths are so much fun, and such a good fund raiser, and we are going to have one at the Relay For Life event this year. The thing about dunking booths is you need people to dunk!

Would you be interested in donating some of your time to relax in a dunking booth June 26, at Bluffton University~Ac^a'not^a"cs Salzman Stadium?

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Here's what, where and when: Hometown Amerifest June 26-27

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 15, 2010 - 5:14pm

Here's the up-to-the-minute schedule for this year's first-ever Bluffton Hometown Amerifest. The sponsoring groups are the Bluffton Lions Foundation and its Festival of Wheels, the Bluffton-Pandora Rotary Club and its Freedom Festival, and the Relay for Life Fundraising event.

PARADE - NOON SATURDAY

FIREWORKS - 10:15 P.M. SATURDAY

Saturday and Sunday, June 26-27

SATURDAY June 26
7:00 am - 7:00 pm Corvette Raffle Tickets on Sale Downtown

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Rain, rain, go away

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 15, 2010 - 7:01am

Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. During the past seven days, the area has recorded 1.75 inches of rain, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. During the recent seven-day period rain fell on six of those days. Here's his daily report.

Date High Temp Low Temp Precip

June 8 71 49 .41

June 9 80 50 .88

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Matthews-Shelly wedding May 29

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 14, 2010 - 8:49am
Kristen and Devon

Kristen Shelly, daughter of Mark and Kathy Shelly of Penfield, N.Y., and Devon Matthews, son of Lawrence and Louise Matthews, Bluffton, were married on Saturday, May 29, 2010.

Randy Keeler of Bluffton, presided over the outdoor ceremony overlooking Lake Ontario in Webster, N.Y.

Bridesmaids included the maid-of-honor Karla Nofziger of Archbold, sister Lauren Shelly of Philadelphia, Pa., Holly Nickeson of Rochester, N.Y., and Erin Neufeld Weaver of Bluffton.

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New emergency department entrance door installed at hospital this week

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 14, 2010 - 6:28am

Several new construction steps are part of the June 14 Bl;uffton Hospital renovation. Work projects planned this week follow:

* Charles Construction will be installing the new exterior Emergency Department entrance door.

* As they prepare to install the new interior ER entrance door, Facility Services will begin to remove the wall shelves and fixed desk at the former ER Nurse Station.

* The patient monitors will be relocated as a wall mount within the existing Emergency Department.

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The HeartCare Center at BVH performs 1,000th PCI

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 13, 2010 - 5:26pm

The HeartCare Center at Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH), Findlay, performed its 1,000th percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure today (June 12).

PCI is a procedure done to open narrowed or blocked arteries in the heart. The procedure can be performed as an elective procedure to help decrease the risk of a heart attack, or can be done during a heart attack to reestablish blood flow to a blocked area of the heart.

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