March 2012

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Note: Our Bluffton High School classmate, Rick Emmert, provides updates from time to time about his experiences in Japan, where he lives.

The following is an e-mail update that we think Icon viewers who know Rick will appreciate. For more details, click on the links.

Dear Family and Friends,

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Bluffton's council packet and agenda for Monday's meeting are now on The Icon. One point of business is that Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, says that the village has received notification from the Ohio Public Works Commission that its request for financial assistance has been approved for several water main replacement projects.

In other action, council will consider increasing the prices of cemetery lots at Maple Grove Cemetery.

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BFR will sponsor a volleyball developmental skills league for girls ingrades 4, 5 and 6 this spring, according to Carole Enneking.

Players for any area school may register individually and will be placed on mixed-age teams for this league. Teams will practice one night per week and matches will be held on Saturdays . One match per team will be scheduled on Saturday, April 21 through May 19.

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The 2012 Bluffton University Baseball team and coaching staff want to share appreciation to the stylists of the Curling Iron in Bluffton.

On Wednesday, Feb. 29, they shut their shop down during the lunch hour to come to campus and help us with our BaseBALD event for St. Baldrick's Foundation.

St. Baldrick's invests in childhood cancer research. Our team raised more than $8,000 for St. Baldrick's and on Feb. 29, we concluded our fundraising and awareness campaign by shaving our heads in support of children who have or have had cancer.

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Historically low mortgage interest rates have prompted many homeowners to think seriously about refinancing, but there's a lot you need to consider before filling out a loan application.

Start by determining why you want to refinance. Is it primarily to reduce your monthly payments?

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Injuries and accidents, hospitalization, serious illness, life-changing emergenies...are you prepared to handle life's unexpected obstacles?

Beyond Budgeting (www.gobeyondbudgeting.com) will host a workshop "Leaving a Love Legacy," from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, in Room 9-10 at Shawnee Alliance Church, Lima, according to Beth Boehr, of Beyond Budgeting, 119 Vine St., Bluffton.

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Tribe players battle for open outfield spot

By Evan Skilliter

Spring training is finally underway.

I had the privilege to get the first spring training experience of my life this week at the ESPN Wide World of Sports' Champion Stadium near Orlando, Florida, where the Atlanta Braves played the Washington Nationals.

It was a day I will never forget, an early reintroduction to the best sport in the world. The sights, sounds, and smells of baseball were tickling my senses once again, after a long winter of anticipation.

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Two Afghan women-a filmmaker and a humanitarian-will discuss conditions in their native country Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13, at Bluffton University.

In the first of three events that are free and open to the public, the documentary film "Afghanistan Unveiled" will be shown at 8 p.m. Monday in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton's Centennial Hall.

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Art students in Bluffton's seventh grade created this "group grid" drawing of Vincent Van Gogh, according to Nicole Anderson, middle school art teacher.

"Each student received a small piece of a painting by Van Gogh," she said. "The goal was to duplicate and enlarge the smaller piece using oil pastels."

The students put their pieces back together in order to come up with the large composite, on display in the hallway of the middle school art department. The image is a copy of Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. It was created in January of 1889.

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Fifty-six years ago this month Bluffton High School boy's basketball team reigned as the 1955-56 non-county tournament champions. This photo was taken in the old Celina fieldhouse.

Front row, from left, Bill Herr, Marvin Diller, Jim "Spike" Berry, Jack Fields, Joe Urich, Ron Lora and Jim Fisher.

Back row from left, Dan Gleason, Ron Geiser, Don Alspach, Ralph Reichenbach, Ramon Lewis, Dave Shoemaker, Don Badertscher (manager).

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