May 2018

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By Sam Brauen www.blufftonpirates.com
(SPENCERVILLE) - The Bluffton boys track team won the final meet event, the 4x400, by a strong 20 feet that would have given the Pirates back to back Northwest Conference championships Saturday.

However, several minutes later after the race ended, the Pirate relay team was disqualified for a contact infraction and Columbus Grove won the NWC title by a 111-107 count. While the boys team officially finished second, the girls team took fourth place. 

BFR holds June 7 to July 26 Thursday night league

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Bluffton Family Recreation is taking team registrations for co-ed sand volleyball, according to Daniel Tinch, BFR executive director.

Games are played in the early evening on Thursday from June 7 to July 26. No games are scheduled July 5. All games are played at the Bluffton University sand volleyball court on Rosenberger Drive.

Team registration is $175. Contact BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton, or call 419-358-4150 or register online at www.bfronline.com.

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Bluffton's next American Red Cross blood drive is from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 16, in Bluffton middle school, due to air conditioning work at the high school gym.

Donors may sign-up in the school office or call 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to redcrossblood.org sponsor code "bluffhsoh" to schedule a donor appointment.

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Here's another Bluffton elementary class photo.

Jon Szabo provided the following identification:

BHS class of 1981. Probably taken in 1967 or 1968, afternoon Kindergarten.

Front: Dennis Goodwin, __________, Tom Palte, Barbara Hensley, Cindy Born, Teresa Fruth, James Pletcher, Scott Parkins.

Middle: Amy Jordan, Gregg Snyder, Ruth Hicks, Peggy Moser, Jon Szabo, Rebecca Spallinger.

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The Icon spotted WORD on a blue Mazda CX-5 on Ohio Northern’s campus during commencement weekend.

School board also will act on several contracts

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Approval of the graduating class of 2018 is on Monday's Bluffton school board agenda. The list of seniors to be issued diplomas follows: (The May school board agenda is attached at the bottom of this story.)

Morgan Rae Auchmuty

Ashley Jean Augsburger

James Andrew Badial

Zachary Dale Basinger

Madison Kate Bassett

Zachary James Baxter

Aaron Howard Belcher

Lelani Renee Bischoff

Kassandra Rose Bishop

Dakota Jay Bricker

Hunter Drew Brodman

Kaitlyn Jean Burkholder

Hunter William Busch

April's Bluffton Police Department docket

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Here's the April Bluffton Police Department docket.

April 2
Officers responded to an East College Avenue residence for a deceased person.

A Bluffton University official reported a criminal mischief complaint to police.

Officers arrested Ryan M. Matter, 22, Bluffton, on an outstanding warrant out of the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office.

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Avis A. Marshall, 89 died on May 13, 2018, at Blanchard Valley Hospital in Findlay.  Services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, May 17, at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton. 

Visitation will be Wednesday from 2 – 4 p.m. and 6 – 8 p.m. at the funeral home.  Arrangements have been entrusted with Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Carl J.C. Wolf died on May 11, 2018, at the age of 99.  Carl was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Feb. 16, 1919 to Otto A. and Helen Hilbert Wolf. He is predeceased by his wife, Claralice, and by his sister, Arvola.

Carl graduated from Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1936, Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, 1940, and Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1943. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Davis and Elkins College, West Virginia, in 1956.

He married Claralice Hanna in August 1943.

Just ask these nine organizations inviting volunteers to participate

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You can make a difference.

Nine Bluffton organizations invited chamber members – and the door is open to any Icon viewer – to become the difference.

In a “speed-dating” format Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce members learned on Friday morning that there’s a place of them – and you – to volunteer locally.

Presenting their cases:
• Bluffton Clean Up – with goals of promoting awareness of litter and creating a litter-free community. Contact: Facebook.com/blufftoncleanup, Joy Stemen.

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