Sarah Foster, executive director of Richland Manor, puts a dab of paint on the wall of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center. Richland Manor recently donated over $2,000 to the Senior Center and used some of those funds to purchase paint for a new inside paint job. In addition to several Richland Manor employees who volunteered their time, Bluffton University students also helped in the painting project. Click for more information on the project.
This is the time of year when Ohio residents long for an escape from the cold and snow, to someplace where it's summer. Recently, Bluffton residents Christina and Nathan Seidner did just that with a eight-day mission trip to Uruguay.
Christina, employed at Common Grounds Coffee House, and Nathan, a mechanical engineer at Grob, both belong to the First Assembly of God in Lima. They took part in a mission that included 17 others, including members at churches from Findlay, Wapakoneta and Leipsic.
Today Gov. John R. Kasich announced that a limited number of tickets to his 2013 State of the State address on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in Lima will be distributed to the public via an internet lottery.
Bluffton's Relay for Life is June 21-22 at the Bluffton University football stadium, according to Jesse Purcell, American Cancer Society representative, helping to put on the event.
The Relay has provided The Icon with all the information necessary for persons to form teams or to become sponsors.
American Cancer Society representatives will attend the Friday, Feb. 15, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast to explain the variety of options available for teams and sponsors.
Marjorie J. Marquart, 89 died at 10:45 p.m. February 10, 2013 at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
She was born August 6, 1923 in Bluffton to the late Charles F. and Fairy D. (Diefendeifer) Stratton.
She was married to Frank Houston in June 1943 and he died in World War II in September, 1944. On July 8, 1947 she married Paul Marquart and he died October 13, 1992.
