April 2010

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The ninth annual BVHS Service of Remembrance will be held at the First Presbyterian Church at 2330 South Main St., Findlay on Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m.

The non-denominational memorial service will honor BVHS patients and residents who died in 2009. All are welcome to attend the service, which will be followed by a reception.

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Oscar Velasquez

By Austin Arnold, BGSU Icon intern

Oscar Velasquez is in the process of painting his second mural for the community of Bluffton - this one on the side of Forever in Stitches on Main Street.

This mural will be a period scene from the 1940s and will feature local people who worked on the railroad along with local townspeople and businesses that have helped make up Bluffton's history.

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Brian Wickham

Brian Lee Wickham, 45, Jenera, died in Gulf Shores, Alabama, April 11, 2010. He was born in Findlay on April 9, 1965, to Jack and Sharon Connor Wickham. On March 25, 1983, he married Taunja Gould and she survives.

Mr. Wickham was an account manager with Trisco Systems, Lima, and Shelter Products, Daphne, Ala. He had owned and operated Wick's Construction Co. He was a member of Bethel Church of Christ, rural Ada. He was also a member of ACN Telecommuncations Network Marketing group, AOPA, and the Moose Lodge 698, Findlay.

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BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS MINUTES

Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: 220 W. Elm Street
BZA: Dave Miller, Gordon Diller, and John Harbison
Administration: Nancy Benroth, Steve Chamberlain
Petitioner: Bryan Lloyd and Stephanie Boyer
Guest: Ella Bazzy and Jan Emmert

The legal notice was published in the Bluffton News on April 1, 2010.

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Jenny Sylak

Jenny Sylak will perform her senior piano recital at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 16 at Albion College, Albion Mich.

She will be performing works by Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and Bela Bartok.

Refreshments will be provided at the reception following the concert. The performance is free and open to the public.

Albion is about 2 hrs and 15 minutes from Bluffton, off of I-94. The concert will be held in Goodrich Chapel on the Albion College campus. She is a Bluffton High School graduate and is the daughter of Phil and Lois Sylak, 235 Grove St.

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Icon viewers:
Remember that MasterCard ad showing everyday items and giving a price until the very end where a special moment is shown and the ad says "for everything else there is MasterCard"?

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Icon viewers:
What is a Value Added Tax, commonly called VAT? These are taxes that we will be facing because of all the spending of our government. It is considered a consumption tax. It is a complicated tax but simply put, each stage or process a tax is added.

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The Diller country school, rural Richland Township, was a unique structure because was a two-room school house. The building stands today and has been transformed into the Goldsberry residence at 7370 Grismore Road. This photo is from a photo post card mailed in 1908.

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The Bluffton school board voted in a special meeting April 12 to re-bid the Harmon Field stadium renovation project after rejecting the previous bids.

According to Greg Denecker, superintendent, the initial bids on the stadium project were more than 10 percent above the preliminary estimate. The renovation is expected to total about $120,000.

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April may truly be "in my mistress face," as evidence in the temperatures recorded over the past seven days by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. Here are the daily highs and lows of the past week.

Date High Low Rain

April 6 83 61

April 7 73 57 .28

April 8 60 57 .52

April 9 50 33

April 10 68 29

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