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Iconoclast View: Bet you didn't know the most popular and famous Chicago park is built on the site of the city’s first cemetery.

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 24, 2015 - 2:15pm

Opinion piece by Rudi Steiner

Last week I had to do some work at Lincoln Park Zoo in downtown Chicago.

As I rode in a golf cart going about my business I passed some giraffes, camels, bears, tigers, lions, hippos, and hundreds of 4th graders on field trips acting like monkeys.

Winding through the park my journey took me past the “Couch family tomb” the only remaining gravesite left in what was once Chicago’s first city cemetery.

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Bernice Criblez was a retired Allen East school bus driver

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 23, 2015 - 5:46pm

Bernice L. Criblez, 85, of Bluffton,  died Oct. 22, 2015, at 2:50 p.m. at Richland Manor, Bluffton.  Bernice was born Aug. 3, 1930, in Lima to the late Lew and Martha Lones Hullibarger. On Aug. 8,1948, she married Marion E. Criblez who preceded her in death on May 18, 1998.

Bernice was a bus driver for the Allen East Schools.  She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, Lafayette, the  Eagles Ladies Auxiliary and  American Legion  Auxiliary both of Wapakoneta and the Farm Bureau. She was a graduate of Lafayette Jackson High School.  

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It's getting closer - but still time to enter the Blaze parade

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 23, 2015 - 5:33pm

With the theme “A Christmas from the Past,” the 2015 Bluffton Blaze of Lights is getting ready for its Saturday, Nov. 28, launch.

The event, sponsored by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, should bring several thousand visitors to Bluffton.

Here’s the latest update:

Saturday, Nov. 28 schedule – all events on Main Street
• 4 to 5 p.m. – Parade forms at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool and The Centre on Snider Road

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Thomas "Skip" Bassitt was a former Bluffton school board member

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 23, 2015 - 5:04pm

Thomas "Skip" Edgar Bassitt, 72, of Lecanto, Fla., and formerly of Bluffton died Oct. 21, 2015, at his residence.

Thomas was born Dec. 4, 1942, in Bluffton to the late Loren "Bill" and Margaret "Peg" (McGuire) Bassitt.  On Aug. 28, 1999, he married Sharen Fuller Bassitt and she survives.

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Show and tell

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 23, 2015 - 4:53pm

It was show-and-tell in the four-year-old class at Bluffton Community Child Development Center. The fun game "Operation" caught everyone's attention.

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$8,500 cash and in-kind prizes offered to winners in 2016 BCE business plan competition

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 23, 2015 - 4:03pm

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will expand its 2016 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition into two divisions with six total winners, according to Brendon Matthews, BCE board president.

This year’s cash and in-kind prizes total $8,500.

The contest offers a Start-up and Emerging Business Division, accepting entries from Allen, Hancock, Putnam and Hardin counties. It offers a $2,000 first place, $1,000 second place and $500 third place cash award, in addition to several in-kind prizes.

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