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Bluffton is preparing for its Blaze of Lights. This year's Blaze is Saturday, Nov. 26.

To get things started, volunteers placed cutouts from the Ream holiday folk art display on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn on Saturday.

Watch the Icon for the Blaze schedule.

There are proper ways for squirrels to eat corn cobs, and here's proof. Ken Collins photographed this Ada squirrel having lunch earlier this week. There are additional photos of lunch below.

Emily Jay has 34 photographs on exhibition

By Monty Siekerman
Ohio Northern University Art Professor Emily Jay points to a plaster mold of her feet that she photographed to show how landscape affects us. How does this photo show landscape with no trees, mountains, or oceans?

Emily explained that she buried the plaster molds in the dirt in Norway. Upon digging them up a month later, she discovered them cracked, moldy, and slimy...thus, the terrain and weather in Norway affected her molds.

This is just one of 34 photographs on display in the Bluffton University Sauder Visual Arts Center's Grace Albrecht Gallery on Spring Street.

Winners include: date pinwheel, oatmeal raisin, brown sugar pecan and chocolate chip

By Monty Siekerman
Winners of the Festival of Trees cookie baking contest at Community Health Professionals were determined Monday evening by a panel of judges.

It was rumored that each judge was chosen because he had a sweet tooth.
Lucky judges were (seated, from left) Van Curlis, John Berg, Matt Crawford, (standing, from left) Kevin Mierzejewski and Alec Perrin.

Where students take an oath of professional commitment

The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy recently conducted its annual Professional Commitment Ceremony in the ONU Sports Center.

Dr. Chet Kaczor, Ohio Pharmacists Association president elect and director of pharmacy services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, was the keynote speaker at the event. He spoke on “Passion, Purpose and Positivity: Your Prerogative.” Kaczor earned his doctor of pharmacy from ONU’s College of Pharmacy in 2006.

The event marks the transition from the students’ first three years of ONU pharmacy education to their final three professional years in the direct-entry program.

Largest crowd ever on opening day

By Monty Siekerman
Santa drew a large crowd to the opening of the Festival of Trees on Sunday afternoon at Community Health Professionals.

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In addition to youngsters telling Santa their wishes, the afternoon event included:
• kids buying gifts for family and friends for $1 and learning how to wrap them, even making their own Christmas cards.
• the beginning of a week-long silent auction.
• a $5 grab and go table of holiday decorations.
* free food, an extensive array of main dishes and desserts.

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