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Boys' soccer: Celina wins a game in the mud 1-0

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 19, 2016 - 4:43pm

The Celina Bulldog soccer team visited Bluffton’s Steinmetz Field for a muddy affair on Saturday, 9-17-16. Celina prevailed by 1-0.
 
The non-conference game pitted two skilled teams who spent a lot of the game under tight pressure from each other. Bluffton had 4 shots on goal and Celina had three.
 
The lone score came at the 20th minute of the game by Jarren Casto when he managed to break free of the tenacious Bluffton defenders.
 
Celina goalkeeper, Aden Gariety, had 4 saves; Bluffton keeper, Levi Smith, had two saves.
 

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Sports
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Meet the 2016 BHS homecoming court

King and queen will be announced in a pre-game ceremony Friday
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 19, 2016 - 3:39pm

• Click here for senior video
• Click here for underclassmen video
• Click here for driver video

Bluffton High School homecoming is Friday. Several events take place this week. Those events are listed in a story elsewhere on the Icon. Here are members of this year's homecoming court.

Videos and photos of the court at bottom of this story -

Queen candidates:

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People
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President Harder examines Bluffton University as a community of respect

Presidential forum on Sept. 13
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 19, 2016 - 3:17pm

During Bluffton University’s annual President’s Forum, President James Harder explored the topic of respect. Respect is one of Bluffton’s four enduring values along with discovery, community and service.   
 
Over the years, Bluffton has also developed an intentional and carefully-considered set of relational values that has come to be called Bluffton’s “Community of Respect” statement. The statement guides the ways members of the campus community relate to each other.
 

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Bluffton University
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VIPs on the homecoming court

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 19, 2016 - 3:01pm

An important job in Friday's Bluffton High School homecoming is the task of carrying crowns for the king and queen. This year that assignment goes to Greta Myers, second grader, who is a sister of Zane Myers, one of this year's court drivers, and Parker Kimmel, kindergartenr.

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Chauncey Basinger was retired from Bluffton Ex-Cell-O

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 19, 2016 - 2:22pm

Chauncey Gilbert Basinger, 90, died Sept. 19, 2016 at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.  Chauncey was born Oct. 8, 1925, in Allen County, Ohio to the late Millard and Sylvia (Spallinger) Basinger. On Nov. 6, 1949, he married Miriam Anderson Basinger who preceded him in death on June 8, 2010.

Chauncey retired from Ex-Cello Corporation in Bluffton.  He was a member of the Columbus Grove United Methodist Church, the American Legion Post in Columbus Grove and the Columbus Grove Lions Club.  Chauncey was an Army veteran serving in World War II.

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Obituaries
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Mennonite educators meet at Bluffton University

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 19, 2016 - 2:12pm

Three times a year, members of the Mennonite Schools Council meet. Every other year, one of these meetings is at a Mennonite college and for the first time in nearly a decade, that meeting was held at Bluffton University.
 

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Bluffton University
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