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Katie Wineland, a Bluffton University senior from Gibsonburg, placed second recently in this year’s binational C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest.

Her runner-up effort earned the biblical studies major a $225 cash prize and a scholarship to attend a peace-related conference or seminar.

 

Genevieve Marie Leightner, 97, of Pandora died at 8:15 am Nov. 1, 2012, at Bluffton Hospital. She was born Feb. 24, 1915, in Toledo to Edward Guy and Maude Murbach Dilgart. On Sept. 16, 1939, she married Clinton Edward Leightner and he preceded her in death on Sept. 9, 2004.

New Leaf Landscape and Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235, Ada, and 927 E. Columbus St., Kenton, is the Icon's newest advertiser.

New Leaf will hold a Christmas open house from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10. The event will include specials and all customers may sign up to win a $100 gift certificate.

The decorated store will offer:

• Unique decorations - country and traditional
• Artificial trees, wreaths and greenery
• Chocolate peanut cluster and other candy
• Grape vine trees, wreaths and more

Depending upon when you read this, it's either All Hallow's Eve (Oct. 31), or All Saints' Day (Nov. 1). It's a time when persons often reflect on family and friends no longer living. Maple Grove Cemetery is a place filled with artistic expression, and this old tombstone is an example.

St. John's United Church of Christ November newsletter is now on the Icon.

The November issue of "The Visioneer," a publication promoting the Green House Project of Mennonite Home Communites of Ohio, is now posted on The Icon.

The issue's focus is the Oct. 14 dedication fo the Green Houses.

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