"I forgot my gloves and I can't feel my thumb!"
"I forgot my gloves and I can't feel my thumb!"
- Mark Smith
That's the winner caption to our most recent "write a caption to this photo" contest. The photo shows Nate Gundy with thumb in the air sitting with Brett Buller at the state semi-final boys' Division III soccer game.
Nate and Brett, both BHS soccer alums, live in Orrville and attended the game that sent Bluffton HS into the state finals.
Icon viewer Mark Smith wrote the winning caption and will receive five passes to the Shannon Theatre.
Over 30 entries were submitted. Here are the honorable mentions:
I’m camped out in front of the Shannon theatre waiting for the Frozen movie to come out in two weeks.
- Angie Dirmeyer Whitaker
Look at me, I’m a hitch hiker.
- J.W. Shannon
Yes, I slept at Holiday Inn Express last night.
- Sean Burrell
Yep, I learned how to swim in the quarry!
- David Jones
Hey, the Browns are winning.
- Wesley Fleming
We are just here for the cookies.
- Travis and Elisa Kleman
In a category by itself:
It was just a fart this time.
- Kaleigh Oberly
Special Mention:
Back in our day we played soccer on lumpy, narrow football fields. You got extra points if you hit the gopher sticking its head out of the hole…
- Brett Buller
Stories Posted This Week
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 14
- CANCELLED Main St. closure on October 15
- Frederick Clyde Warren founded True-2-Form Plastics
- October 14 Bluffton Schools athletics lineup, streaming
- Pirate boys soccer beats Wapak in regular season finale
- Pirate girls soccer defeats Liberty Center
- Mennonite pastor to explore ‘good news’ in creation
- Bluffton University earns recognition in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Obituary for Deborah "Debbie" Welch, 74
- Spirits and exorcism presentation during University Spiritual Life Week Forum
- Dodging bullets: Bluffton oral history 90+ years after Dillinger robbery
- Nora Matthews named BHS Student of the Month for September 2026
- ICAPP analysis on charter status and local autonomy
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 13
- Bluffton area Women in Business meeting October 15
- Leo club glasses collection
- Night at the (Swiss Historical) Museum, October 24
- Woodcarving ornament workshop at Swiss Heritage Center
- Barefoot nature walks at the Nature Preserve
- Pirate volleyball seeded 4th
- Beavers sports roundup, October 6-11
- Bluffton leaf pickup scheduled for last week of October
- Pirate boys soccer shuts out Bellefontaine
- Watch an after school movie at the Bluffton Public Library
- Dunlap awarded OSBA humanitarian award