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Sophomore Dustin Kinn (Alvada/New Riegel) was named the Heartland Conference men's basketball player of the week after he led the Beavers to a 2-0 start to the season at Webster University in St. Louis.

The sophomore post poured in a then career-high 21 points to go along with seven rebounds in Bluffton's 79-76 overtime win against host Webster on Saturday evening. Kinn followed that performance with another career-high scoring effort, bucketing 25 points in the Beavers' first-ever triple overtime contest, a 97-94 victory over Rust College on Sunday.

Patricia A. "Chic" Garlock has joined First National Bank as Vice President of the Findlay market. Garlock will manage the existing office located at 1630 Tiffin Ave., as well as the new location currently under construction at 1114 Trenton Ave. The new branch will open in February of 2012. She is responsible for customer retention and developing new consumer and business relationships in the Findlay community.

Garlock has 23 years of banking experience in the Findlay community and says she is excited about getting back to true community banking.

Drive Time Driving Instruction has some neat holiday gift offers. These include $20 off the regular price of $300, on top of the everyday $10 discount for full payment on the first day of class.

Holiday pricing will be in effect for both Findlay and Bluffton classes in Dec. and Jan. (Dec. 4 and Jan. 8 in Bluffton; Dec. 18 and Jan. 22 in Findlay.)

Gift certificates are also available. Drive Time Driving Instruction is an Icon advertiser.

Don Overmyer

15 minutes with Don Overmyer

What year did you graduate from Bluffton High School?

I graduated in 1976

What are you doing these days and where do you live?
I am a Vice President with Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. Given the magic of technology, however, I actually live in Seattle (where I have now been for 11 years) and telecommute to my Los Angeles office.

Bluffton University's music department has announced the soloists for its 116th performance of Handel's "Messiah," at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Founders Hall. Soloists are Dr. Crystal Sellers, soprano; Cynthia Lincoln MacDonald, alto; Christopher Scholl, tenor; and Dr. Sean Cooper, bass.

Crystal Sellers, soprano

Sellers is an assistant professor of music at Bluffton, where she teaches voice and vocal pedagogy and conducts the university and community gospel choir.

Bluffton Hospital Wins National Patient Satisfaction Award For Third Consecutive Year

Bluffton Hospital has been named one of only 37 inpatient hospitals in the United States to receive the 2011 Press Ganey Summit Award for patient satisfaction. This is the third consecutive year Bluffton Hospital has received this honor, according to William Watkins of the hospital.

The Press Ganey Summit Award is given to health care facilities across the nation that sustain the highest level of customer satisfaction for three or more consecutive years.

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