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Our generation in the covid-19 era

We aren't the first to experience this; it's just a different name
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 2:43pm

By Fred Steiner
It is a certainty that “The Covid-19 Era” will resonate with us as “The Great Depression” did with our parents and grandparents. 

The message “never throw anything away because you never know when you might need it,” is among the what-did-your Depression era grandparents and parents teach their Baby Boomers children?

That Great Depression generation’s continual reminder that things may be great today, but, once upon a time that wasn’t the case, can only mean they experienced something that we know very little about today.

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Wanda Landes was a Bluffton High School graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 11:11am

Bluffton native Wanda M. (Hochstettler) Landes, 88, died at Elderwood on Jan. 21, 2021, in Wheatfield, New York. 

Wanda was born on Feb. 6, 1932, in Bluffton, Ohio, to Andrew A. and Esther S. Hochstettler. She graduated from Bluffton High School in 1950 and then attended Moody Bible Institute. She married Howard J. Landes of Bluffton, on June 19, 1954.

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What a sound!

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 10:22am

Here's the Bluffton High School alumni jazz band in a 2004 performance with Dave Sycks directing.

• Saxes from left, Jesse Henry '96, David Stratton '01, Peter Bixel '98, Andy Eddinger '00, Ben Hohenbrink '98

• Trombones from left, Brian Barry '96, Jacob Boehr '01, Amanda (Doty) Morrison '02

• Trumpets from left, Travis Unterbrink '96, Ben Harmon '01, Katie (Fultz) Ochoa '96

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Historical Bluffton
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Icon book review: Talking to Strangers

A look at miscommunication
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2021 - 10:08pm

Review by Robert McCool
“Talking to Strangers” is a look at miscommunication.

Malcom Gladwell's 2019 nonfiction book is a look at how communication fails when there are no common expectations between strangers in the language they use.

“Talking to Strangers” (Hachette Book Group, ISBN978-0-316-47852-6) presents cases where spoken language is subverted by non-verbal cues that can be misconstrued by the observer to mean something other than what they are meant to be.

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Half-century of planting Christmas trees

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2021 - 1:12pm

You might call Santa Ron Bowerman the Johnny Appleseed of Christmas trees. He and his wife, Jane, live at 625 E. College Ave. and they've planted live Christmas trees in their home yards for 50 years. Now the trees grow on lawns of their children and grandchildren. Ron said that the tree planted in this photo is his third in Bluffton. (Dennis Morrison photo)

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You know someone on this honor roll

Bluffton middle school students for second quarter
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2021 - 1:09pm

Here's the Bluffton Middle School Honor Roll for the second quarter of the 2020-21 school year.
• Click here for the elementary honor roll 
• Click here for the high school honor roll

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