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15 minutes with Jerrod Amstutz

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 21, 2009 - 3:22am
Jerrod Amstutz

The last we talked you were student of the month at BHS in May. What's happened in your life since then?
Well, I graduated! Then during my summer break I went to France with Ebenezer Mennonite Church for two great weeks. I absolutely would love to go back. I also worked my second year at Camp Roberts in Shawnee, which is a free Bible camp for inner city Lima kids. I then started to attend Ohio Northern University.

Do you live on campus?

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Dinosaur license plate

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 20, 2009 - 2:35pm

Icon viewer Bob Antibus (on sabbatical in Montana) sent us the photo of this license plate with the following explanation: A Troodon is a type of dinosaur - small with long arms - you can read about it at the link below - I thought the plate was cool as it had the T rex and was a Museum of Rockies plate. I don't know who owns the car (vanity plates are big in Montana - both my sabbatical sponsor and her husband have plates linked to their jobs). The Museum of the Rockies is famous for being the home of Jack Horner and the collection of dinosaur eggs and nests.

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$1,000 grand prize for Big idea contest

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 20, 2009 - 2:30pm

BIG IDEA CONTEST ENTRIES DUE BY NOVEMBER 6

The entries for the first ever Bluffton Center for Entrepreneur Big Idea Contest must be postmarked by Oct. 30 or hand delivered to the Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs by Friday, Nov. 6 and includes a fee of $25, payable to the Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs.

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Soybeans coming off the fields

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 20, 2009 - 1:28pm

With temperatures in the low 70s Bluffton farmers took advantage of a great weather window to finish off the soybean harvest of 2009. This field on the corner of Rockport and Tom Fett Road was among the later fields to have 'beans come off. Some farmers have already started work on corn, which should be in full swing soon.

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BCDC artist Rylee Setzer

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 20, 2009 - 12:44pm

Rylee Setzer peeks through one of her art works created at the Bluffton Child Development Center. She is a member of the pre-kindergarten class at the Center and is the daughter of Jodi Steiner.

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A very early Bluffton Halloween story

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 20, 2009 - 12:34pm

With Halloween on the horizon, let's hear your best Bluffton Halloween story.

While this isn't my most frightening, it's still a good one. Before you say, "Well, that's just an urban legend," remember that this story took place before the term urban existed. Concerning a time line, we're talking 1870s. So, it makes this one the oldest known Bluffton Halloween-type stories. I have no doubt that this really happened.

It was told to me by "Link" Hauenstein (I never knew him by any other name) circa 1978.

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