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Richard Bucher plays the accordian while leading a Swiss Day audience in David Rothen's new year's carols. Swiss was was June 24. A video of the two carols is posted on the Icon and several additional videos featuring Ted Cunningham, Dr. Oliver Lugibihl, Winford Bauman and Bucher conversing in Swiss dialect. Click here for those videos.

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Thanks to a Audre Reichenbach-Vugrinac, a classmate in this photo, we have a much clearer idenfication of class members.

This is the second grade with teacher Kathy Augsburger during the 1967-68 school year.

Top row, from left, Kathy Augsburger, Carol Kaufman, Audre Reichenbach, Jon Parkins, Beth Alt, Alisa Simon, Verle Dalke, Sandy Mulvania, Dick Kiene a d Tamara Carmack.

Middle row, from left, Brent Heineman, Cathy Ferrall, Jackie Laing, Bill Little, _____, Kathy Ernsberger, either Carol or Cathy__________(she was a twin), Stephanie Schmidt, Karen Augsburger.

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CAP AM,  on a Franklin County plate, was spotted on a red Honda Civic parked on the ONU campus.

Taking my kids away without first proving it is lawful, ain’t right, it ain’t right, it just ain’t right

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Note: This column comes to The Icon from PeaceVoice Program, Oregon Peace Institute.

By Kary Love
Being a lawyer, I have long been interested in and have studied the question, where did law come from?

It turns out to have been the result of a centuries long, hard struggle by people over generations as humans evolved to try to incorporate justice into their villages or tribes.  Generation built upon generation, honing and improving law.

Tuesday's library "make and take" session is all about music

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Let's make some music.

One of this summer's Bluffton Public Library popular repeating programs for youth returns on Tuesday.

It's another "make and take" session, held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, June 26.

Children going into grades K-5 are encouraged to attend the craft session as recycled musical instruments will be constructed. Registration is required to insure that all participants have enough material to create their instruments.

Contact the library to register.

 

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Here's another photo taken around noon on Saturday showing Harmon Field after the Riley overflowed its banks. When this photo was taken, the water was already receeding. The water covering East College Avenue was gone by later in the afternoon.

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