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This photo needs a little explanation, but it's worth a second look. Here are 18 caps. You'll find these hanging in the Spring Street village building. The Icon stopped by last week and saw the caps and couldn't resist taking this photo. Where else in Bluffton are 18 caps in a row?

Music teacher and softball coach in the UP; took her team to the regional finals

Icon: We understanding you are a high school teacher and softball coach.
Jenny: I teach and coach at Bark River-Harris High School in Michigan.

Icon: Where is it on the Michigan map?
Jenny: It’s in Harris, Michigan, about 10 miles northwest of Escanaba in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. About 10 hours from Bluffton.

FDA approves new drug that treats breast, stomach and esophageal cancer

Note: this article was provided by ONU Healthwise Pharmacy. 
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved another biosimilar to a drug that treats breast, stomach and esophageal cancer.

This biosimilar is called Kanjinti (trastuzumab-anns). The FDA approved it because it appeared to have no meaningful differences from Herceptin (trastuzumab), which has already been approved.

Professor Gundy will discuss his family history research as well as his upcoming memoir, Wind Farm. Time for writing to follow. Register today!

Interested in Creative Nonfiction including memoirs, biographies, and family histories?

Dr. Antibus will explain which varieties of mushrooms are edible and how to grow them yourself. Be sure to register!

Ever wonder how you grow mushrooms and which varieties are edible? Learn from an expert! -- Dr. Robert Antibus, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Bluffton University, will present "Growing & Eating Mushrooms" on July 16 from 6-7 p.m. in Bluffton Public Library's lower level meeting room.

Those who register will not walk away empty-handed, so be sure to register by July 10. (Registration is required.) This program is free, and open to adults and teens. There will be time for questions at the end of the program.

Written by Bluffton 6th graders in 1953-54

Note: Bluffton sixth graders in the 1953-54 school year (graduating class of 1960) created a booklet titled "The Bluffton Story." The following article is part of that booklet, which is now in the history collection at the Bluffton Public Library. This series continues each week on the Icon.
By Vera Basinger and Doris Ann Niswander

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