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PrimeTimers Fellowship will meet for a noon lunch on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at St. John Mennonite Church, 15988 Road 2, Pandora.

The monthly lunch is open to all adults 55 and over. Entertainment is provided by Lauren Brooke and Sisters.

The meal includes meat with vegetable lasagna, green bean with almonds, mixed salad with maple dressing, breadsticks, pumpkin roll with homemade whipped cream and coffee.

PrimeTimers is a ministry of St. John Mennonite Church and Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio.

The Bluffton High School football team is ranked 11th in Region 22 of this week's Ohio high school football computer rankings.

Region 22's list is in the attachment below.

Click here for the entire statewide rankings.

Passenger trains no longer stop in Bluffton - but the next best thing took place at Mennonite Memorial Home during the Saturday Fall Festival. Watch for more photos tonight.

Bluffton Family Recreation is accepting teams for its inaugural sixth grade boys’ and girls’ tip-off tournament in December, according to Joseph Beagle, director.

Boys’ division play is Saturday, Dec. 12, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Girls’ division play is Sunday, Dec. 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. All games are at BFR, 216 Snider Road, Bluffton.

Registration fee per team is $200. Registration takes place now through Nov. 30. There is an eight-team limit in each division and three games are guaranteed during the tournaments.

Bluffton Family Recreation will hold fifth and sixth grade girls’ volleyball tournaments on two consecutive weekends in November, according to Joseph Beagle, director.

A fifth grade tournament is Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7-8. A sixth grade tournament is Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15. Matches are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The cost per team is $200. The tournament has three guaranteed games with random seeding. All matches are at BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton.

Geiger...Kibele...Steiner...Niswander...Kimmel...Pogue. Familiar Bluffton names, even 92 years later.

Here's the Bluffton High School senior class play from 1923-24. It's the cast of "Under cover."

The closer you study this, the sooner you may find a great-grandfather or great-grandmother. 

Front row from left: Wava Patrick, Margaret Kimmel, Leslie Geiger and Evelyn Niswander.

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