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Beaver VB team beats Wilmington in 3

The Bluffton University volleyball team was back in action on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, as they welcomed Wilmington College to Copeland Court to close up non-conference play. The Beavers defeated the Quakers 3-0 (25-17, 25-14, 25-19) to improve to 4-15 on the season thanks to their second straight victory.

Paint my face

Jerzey Smith, 5, daughter of Matt Smith and Becca Kempf, Pandora, gets a fresh coat of face paint in downtown Bluffton during Saturday's Fall Festival. Click here for more festival photos by Jamie Nygaard

Bluffton puts on a fall festival

Jamie Nygaard captures Saturday's event in these photos

Photos by Jamie Nygaard
There's nothing like a small town fall festival. Bluffton does an amazing job putting one together, as it has for the past 16 years.

With cooperation from the weather, this year's festival offered family-oriented actifvities at Mennonite Memorial Home, Maple Crest, downtown, Bluffton Hospital, BFR and the Schumacher homestead.

Several photos showing activities at Bluffton Hospital and downtown follow. Watch the Icon for more photos each day this week.

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Thomas Niswander was a Bluffton HS graduate

Memorial service Oct. 26 at St. John's UCC, Blufton

Bluffton High School graduate Thomas R. Niswander, 68, of Metamora, Ohio died Sept. 15, 2019, in the Toledo Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, following a brief illness.

He was born Dec. 2, 1950, in Bluffton, Ohio, to the late Lysle E. and Leona E. (Schroer) Niswander. Tom retired in 2016 from Toledo Hospital where he worked as a network analyst in the IT department. 

He was a lifelong member of St. John's United Church of Christ, Bluffton.

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Clyde Ernsberger owned a jewelry store in Bluffton

Former Bluffton jeweler Clyde Franklin Ernsberger,  88, died unexpectedly Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, due to injuries sustained in an accident.

He started Ernsberger Jewerly in Bluffton, which was located on South Main Street, now part of the Citizens National Bank parking lot. Clyde was a member of the United Methodist Church throughout his life in Ada, Bluffton and Columbus, most recently at Church for All People.

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Pirate harriers 6th at County Invite

By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Bluffton boys cross country team finished sixth at the 10-team Allen County Invitational meet under unseasonably hot, dry conditions in Faurot Park Tuesday evening.

Shawnee won the team team title easily with 31 points. Elida was a distant second with 76 points, while the Pirates finished with 157.

Freshmen Wyatt Lovell and Sam Derstine turned in the top Bluffton performances. The duo ended up 22nd and 24th, respectively, in the 69-runner field.

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