Single-event tickets for the 2015-16 Bluffton University Artist Series go on sale Friday, July 10. This year’s series features:
• Apollo’s Fire, a baroque chamber ensemble • Heinavanker, an Estonian vocal ensemble
• pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
• the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players
• and the Columbus-based Raise gospel choir
Pleasant View and Mount Cory United Methodist Churches will co-host vacation Bible school August 3-7 from 6-8 p.m. at Mt. Cory UMC, 300 N. Main. Pre-registration will be August 2 @ BFLC from 6-8 p.m. The week will conclude with a joint service on Sunday, August 9, at 10:30 a.m. at Mt. Cory followed by a community cook-out at the BFLC. Service will include the children singing songs they learned during VBS.
AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).
Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.
Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.
There will be more fathers in Bluffton this Father's Day than ever before.
Most of the fathers will arrive on bicycles.
GOBA - the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure - arrives in Bluffton on Sunday, June 21 (Father's Day). Over 2,000 bikers will tool through town from Van Wert via Columbus Grove Road to Grove Street, then Jackson, then College Avenue...on to the GOBAville campgrounds on the Bluffton University practice fields at Rosenberger and Elm.
You are looking at the grill of the vehicle with the long-distance award at Friday's Bluffton Lions Club Festival of Wheels. It's a 1955 Sunbeam, British-made two-seat convertible. It's owner is John Rindfoss of Bucyrus. While British made, its steering wheel is on the left side for use on American roads,
