Bluffton University freshman Brooke Ruffer (Stryker) was recently named Second Team All-Heartland Conference for the 2012-13 women’s basketball season.
The HCAC women’s basketball coaches selected six players for the first team and six players for the second team. In addition, Ruffer was one of five ladies selected to the All-Freshman Team.
Carolyn (Kerry) Vore Dickey, 84, formerly of Bluffton, died Feb. 24, 2013, in Prior Lake, Minn.
Preceded in death by her parents, Roger Miller (d. 1995) and Ida Panabaker (d. 1987) Vore, and one brother, Robert Vore (d. 1998).
Mrs. Dickey was born in Lima, Oct. 31, 1928. She graduated from Lafayette Jackson High School in 1946 and Bluffton College in 1950. She taught kindergarten at Allen-East from 1968-1988.
Frederick Fritchie, 90, died at 3:15 a.m. Feb. 26, 2013, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
Services will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday at English Lutheran Church. Friends may call one hour prior to services Saturday at the church. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Community volunteers Bob and Bev Amstutz are the 2012 Bluffton Lions Club Citizens of the Year. The announcement was made this week.
The couple will be honored by the Lions in a dinner open to the public at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 19, in the Bluffton town hall. John Harris will cater the dinner. Tickets are $13 each and are available from Lion Club members.
Bluffton Elementary School has scheduled Kindergarten screening for Monday, April 15 through Wednesday, April 17.
Any child who will be five years old by August 1 is eligible to enroll.
To be placed on the mailing list please contact the elementary office at 419-358-7951 or may e-mail your information to [email protected] . You will need to provide the following information:
Opening at the Shannon Theatre Friday, March 1 and playing through Thursday, March 7 is Silver Lining Playbook (R).
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. (IMDb)
Show times are every evening at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Junior Will Pope (Somerville/Preble Shawnee) earned honorable mention All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference recognition for his play during the 2012-13 campaign.
It is Pope’s first post-season All-HCAC award after battering opponents on the block all season.
