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Bluffton third graders let off some steam during an indoor soccer match in physical education. You can play off the walls in this contest, so action is very fast.

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Bluffton third graders let off some steam during an indoor soccer match in physical education. You can play off the walls in this contest, so action is very fast.

Morning Star side press also open - all details below

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Just when you think they run out of ideas, the Suter corn maze opens with something so complex you wonder if you could ever escape.

The corn maze and Morning Star Cider Press are located at 8250 Road R, Pandora.

Suter's 2016 corn maze theme is "Twists and Turns in Transportation." That means there's a:
• Steam locomotive
• Ocean liner
• Race car
• Semi-truck
• Helicopter
• Jet
• and, yes that's blimp in the top left-hand corner.

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The Quarry Farm Nature Preserve & Conservation Farm, Pandora, is holding the first Quarry Farm 5K Run/Walk event on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. Check-in is from 8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.The race will be held rain or shine.

Registration is available online at http://www.active.com/pandora-oh/running/distance-running-races/the-quar... and at www.thequarryfarm.org.

Jane Richards is mom to the head coach and wife to a volunteer assistant

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Jane Richards is a pretty good sport.

She has to be.

Her son, Jeff, is head football coach at Bluffton High School. Her husband, Mike, is a volunteer coach on his son, Jeff’s coaching staff.

In a chat with Jane on Thursday at Common Grounds, the Icon learned a lot about being the mother and wife of football coaches.

For starters, her position is a lifetime career.

“I’m the stable one. Mike moved around in his coaching career,” she laughs.

Jane taught art at Cory-Rawson for over 30 years.

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Hydrangea is the subject of a 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, meeting of the Gardeners of Bluffton/Pandora Area. The meeting is in the Bluffton Public Library and is open to the public.

  Allen County Master Gardener Volunteer Tim Staley, will discuss how to successfully grow, propagate, prune and over winter Hydrangea’s. He will also talk about why some blue hydrangeas turn pink, when planted in our area and the difference between a Mophead, a Lacecap, an Oakleaf and a Pee Gee bloom.

 

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