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March 3 PrimeTimers cancelled

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2015 - 3:57pm

Due to the forecasted weather on Tuesday, March 3, PrimeTimers has been cancelled. The group will meet next on Tuesday, April 7.

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Findlay Fishing Club accepting 2015 memberships

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 2, 2015 - 3:20pm

The Findlay Fishing Club is now accepting member applications for 2015. Its members say that it's the best fishing hole in Hancock County.

For membership information call 419-235-9019 or vist the club website at: wwwfindlayfishingclub.org
 

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Digging in against cancer - baseball team raises nearly $7,000

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on March 2, 2015 - 2:39pm

Chase Jones’ life has become his life’s work.

“What I’ve learned, looking back, is I shouldn’t be here,” said Jones, who was diagnosed with Stage IV brain cancer as a freshman at the University of North Carolina in 2006. “The sole reason I’m here is because somebody gave back.”

That’s what Jones was at Bluffton University to witness firsthand on Feb. 25 as founder and CEO of the Vs. Cancer Foundation, which is dedicated to combating childhood cancer.

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Bluffton University
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Rev. Howard J. Landes 1932-2015

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on March 2, 2015 - 2:36pm

Rev. Howard J. Landes, 82, died at the Inn at Amethyst on Feb. 26, 2015, in Peoria, Ariz.

He is survived by his wife, Wanda M. Landes, and his children and their families, Bruce and Roxanne Landes of Phoenix Ariz., Dean and Monica, Logan and his wife Lydia and Taylor Landes of Fountaintown Ind., and Alan and Vicki, Tiffany, Cassie and Joshua Landes of Niagara Falls, N.Y. He is preceded in death by his daughter, Sandra Landes, and grandson, Andrew Landes.

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First of two senior art exhibits to open

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on March 2, 2015 - 2:32pm

Bluffton University art students will display art they have created on campus during their senior exhibition, from March 9-20 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.

Showing their best work from four years of study and studio time are Jill Bornhorst, an art major from Fort Loramie, Ohio; graphic design majors Isaac Schumacher and Gregory Seymour, from Bluffton and Orrville, Ohio, respectively; and Luz Varela, an art and writing major from Goshen, Ind.

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Marilyn Lansing was a retired Triplett employee

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on March 2, 2015 - 2:27pm

Marilyn Joanne Lansing, 88, died on Sunday, March 1, 2015, at 2 p.m. at her son’s residence in Ada.

She was born on Oct. 18, 1926, in Lima, Ohio to Clarence and Dolly (Adams) Tyree and they preceded her in death. On Aug. 13, 1949, she married Charles Lansing and he died on March 13, 1997.

She was a homemaker and formerly worked at Triplett Electric for 14 years. She was a member of the Ada Full Gospel Pentecostal Church of God.

Surviving is a son, Richard (Diane) Lansing of Ada; three grandchildren Kathy, Mike and Sara; and a great granddaughter, Payton.

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