This is basketball week in Bluffton. Twelve games in three McDonald’s Holiday Basketball Tournaments with all games in Bluffton are completed or underway. This week’s holiday tournament basketball schedule and results follow:
UNIVERSITY WOMEN - at Sommer Center
Thursday, Dec. 29
5 p.m. – Hope vs. St. Thomas
7 p.m. – Bluffton vs. Centre
Friday, Dec. 30
Noon – Consolation game
5 p.m. – Title game
Now that it is publicly known that Jim Kinn will be retiring, all of us at Stratton Auto Sales and Bluffton Auto Repair Center would like to wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. We want to thank him for the year and a half that he has been with us in opening the new repair shop.
We look forward to working with the public as we remain open and operational. Mr. Kinn has helped train the person that will be taking over the repair shop for him and we have all the confidence in the world in our new manager.
Bluffton High School defeated Allen East 66-52 in overtime to win the 2016 McDonald’s boys’ basketball holiday tournament.
Gabe Denecker, Luke Denecker and Zane Myers were the three Pirates named to the all-tournament team. Myers, who scored 22 points in the title game, was the tournament MVP.
Arlington defeated Cory-Rawson 54-35 in the consolation game.
An Dec. 31 early-bird registration deadline is closing in on persons interested in entering the 2017 Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.
Persons who register by Dec. 31 pay only $125. After the 31st the registration fee is $150.
Cash and in-kind awards valued at $7,000 are prizes the competition
To enter, contestants must complete an entry form by Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017.
Icon viewers will appreciate the January programming at the Bluffton Public Library. Here's a summary of events planned.
Registration for Winter Storytime opens Jan. 3. You may register via phone (419-358-5016), or email ([email protected]), or at the front desk. Space is limited to 18 children per session. This program is for Preschool Children (ages 3 to 5), and occurs on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. or Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
Ruth L. Schaublin, 92, died Dec. 24, 2016, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. Ruth was born Oct. 4, 1924 in Richland Township, Allen County, Ohio, to the late Wilbert and Hulda (Suter) Schumacher. On Oct. 25, 1947, she married Ormel Schaublin who preceded her in death on Oct. 15, 2000.
Ruth was a graduate of Bluffton High School and was a homemaker. She was a member of Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora and enjoyed cooking, gardening, quilting and sewing.
Here is the Ebenezer Mennonite Church in rural Bluffton. This photo is believed to be taken in 1883 following an addition that was made to the building. The original church building was constructed in 1869.
When this photo was taken there were only two Mennonite churches in the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Settlement. The other was St. John Mennonite, four miles to the north.
By 1890 there were between 800 and 950 Swiss Mennonites living here. At that time the congregation worshiped together on alternative Sundays at St. John and then at Ebenezer.
Dorothy P. Shroyer, 83, died at 12:10 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
She was born on May 26, 1933, in New Bedford, Mass., to John P. and Edwina V. (Furtado) Roza, Sr., who preceded her in death. On Aug. 20, 1955, Dorothy married George Raymond Shroyer who survives in Ada.
