It’s 2015. People everywhere are making resolutions…lose weight, read more, quit smoking, etc. To resolve is the act of finding an answer or solution to a problem. Yet most of our resolutions are never achieved. According to Marti Hope Gonzales, Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, just six weeks after making a resolution, 80 percent of people either have broken them or cannot even recall what they resolved. And of course, we feel like losers when we don’t achieve these goals.
BFR Sports and Fitness will offer indoor sport training clinics this winter. Soccer clinics will be offered in January and February on Friday afternoons. Baseball and Softball clinics will be held in February on Thursday afternoons.
In 2014 the Bluffton Icon experienced visits from over one-quarter million internet viewers, according to Google Analytics. These visitors combined for over 335,000 total visits to the Icon. Nearly 80,000 individual visits were from Ohio viewers.
Several additional statistics for 2014 following, which may be of interest to Icon viewers.
The map of Ohio shows the concentration of views by community. The vast majority of views are from Allen, Hardin, Putnam and Hancock counties.
Join Bluffton-Pandora's oldest tradition at 5 p.m. on New Year's Eve. New year's carolers will sing David Rothen's carols in German at Mennonite Memorial Home. Following caroling at MMH the singers will go to Maple Crest. This is a program of the Swiss Community Historical Society and the public is invited to participate.
By Fred Steiner
To best understand our community, it's helpful to appreciate the musical gene of those who carry a Bluffton birthmark.
