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Youth skills program starts soon; free adult classes for new fitness participants

Several youth and adult class options will open soon at BFR Sports and Fitness, according to Carole Enneking, director.

Basketball skill program for youth 
Youth athletes preparing for upcoming seasons and or those working to improve in the off-season are welcome to register for the upcoming sport programs at BFR Sports and Fitness.

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Off the field

The Icon captured this corn harvest scene between Columbus Grove Road and Augsburger Road on Tom Fett yesterday. Click for a video.

Brandon Huber wins Icon's Week 8 football contest

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The winner of Week 8 of The Icon Football Contest is Brandon Huber . He and Jim Dillman, John Schmutz and Dennis Edinger correctly picked 14 games this week and no contestant predicted either tie-breaker correctly. Huber's entry was the first received.

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Marcene Martz was active in the Bluffton American Legion Auxiliary

Marcene S. Martz, 89, of Bluffton died Oct. 19, 2013 in Mesquite, Texas.  She was born May 14, 1924, in Hancock County to Swan D. and Harriet Ewing Stonehill. On Oct. 20, 1946 she married Donald Martz and he preceded her in death on Dec. 12, 2001.

She retired from Ex-Cell-O Corp., Bluffton where she was a receptionist. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Bluffton where she had served as secretary of the church board, sang in the choir and was a member of United Methodist Women.

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Bluffton Galaxy girls U-10 champs at Van Buren

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The U-10 Bluffton Galaxy girls soccer team took first place at the Van Buren Fall Classic held on Oct. 12-13. They went 4-0 in their pool with a combined score of 38-4 over the 4 games.  They ended the season with a 12-0 record. 

The team consists of (left to right)…
• BACK ROW: Lauren Gray, Nicole Boyle, Sophie Bricker, Kylie Stackhouse, Skyler Scoles,

• FRONT ROW: Dyllan Worcester, Reagan Mittendorf, Maeve Donaldson, Haelyn Bischoff, Samantha Scoles.  The team is coached by Jeremy Scoles and Steve Mittendorf. 

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Holocaust survivor to relate story in Oct. 29 university forum

 

Marion Blumenthal Lazan will share “Four Perfect Pebbles—My Holocaust Story” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Bluffton University’s Founders Hall. The campus forum is free and open to the public.

The author of a memoir also titled “Four Perfect Pebbles,” Lazan will recall her family’s life during the Holocaust, from events preceding Kristallnacht—the November 1938 attacks on Jewish synagogues and businesses in Nazi Germany—to imprisonment in concentration camps and, finally, to liberation.

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