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He's also sports editor for “Van Wert Times Bulletin” and “Delphos Herald”

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By Cara Echols, university public relations student writer

With a bald head and graying beard, John Parent, a Bluffton University student,  doesn’t look like a traditional student at first glance, and his resume looks just as different.

The senior English major with a concentration on adolescent/young adult education from Delphos, is not only a full-time student at Bluffton but also a husband, a father of seven, a full-time regional sports editor and mayor of Delphos.

Working with children from Romania’s gypsy community.

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Senior Katie Keesbury found her calling this summer, nearly 5,000 miles away from her hometown of Bryan.

The bible and theology major spent a month in Romania as part of her minor in missions, and while she received college credit for the international experience, she also discovered her next step in God’s plan. 

“I came away from the experience with the feeling that God was telling me “yes, you’re on track, this is exactly what I have planned for your future, and you’re doing what I want you to do,’” said Keesbury.

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Emmanuel United Church of Christ, 8375 Phillips Road, Bluffton will host an all-you-can eat fish fry from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 10.

Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for youth 10 and under.
 
Menu: All you can eat fish, potato salad, calico beans, baked beans, coleslaw, cranberry salad, taco salad, broccoli salad, mixed fruit, layer salad, perfection salad, macaroni salad, apple salad, green bean casserole, hot cheese potatoes, pickled eggs, macaroni and cheese, cherry dessert, cakes, cookies and pies.

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New members elected to the Bluffton Middle School Student Senate for the 2017-2018 school year were announced recently.

They are Adanna Johnstone, Leah Klinger, Amy Jebsen, Olivia Matthews, Olivia Smallcombe, Lauren Gray, Reagan Mittendorf, Skyler Scoles and Luke Shadle.

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It  begins with chicken nachos on Monday, Oct. 2. It is the October Bluffton school lunch menu. To view October's menu click here.

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Bluffton resident Dr. Jed Marquart, professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University, was elected to the board of directors of the National Space Grant Foundation at the National Council of NASA Space Grant Directors fall meeting in Grand Forks.

Marquart is the director of the Ohio Space Grant Foundation. The Foundation contributes to the nation’s science enterprise by funding research, education and public service projects through a national network of 52 university-based Space Grant consortia.

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