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Tommy Tire has Ada location ribbon cutting

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2016 - 5:12pm

Ada Area Chamber of Commerce met the new guy in Ada earlier this month.

The new guy is a familiar Bluffton business owner: Tom Dotson.

Dotson and his wife, Sheena, this winter expanded their tire Bluffton business with an Ada location at 3032 State Route 309 (intersection of 309 and 235), south of Ada.

The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting of the Ada store took place on March 16. The event also included a tour of the facility for chamber members. The building a former carpet warehouse,  includes a 40 by 80-foot addition that will service semis.

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Celia Blough was a 1945 Bluffton College graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2016 - 4:26pm

Celia Mae Blough, 93, of Bluffton died on March 24, 2016, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.  Celia was born on Dec. 15, 1922 on a farm in Wayne County, close to Dalton, Ohio. Her parents were Adam and Lydia (Sprunger) Amstutz.  In June, 1946, she married Robert J. Blough, M.D., and he died July 22, 2004.

Celia attended grade school for eight years at the Sonnenberg School. She graduated from Dalton High School in 1940 and Bluffton College in 1945. During her husband’s medical internship in Lima, Ohio, she taught at Lima Bath Elementary School. 

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15 with Sarah Schriner…on ministries for mothers, Nicaragua, and lasting impressions of BHS

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2016 - 12:15pm

Interview by Sophia Marcum
With all the busy-ness of midterms, spring-break, and Easter holiday, we were lucky enough to get a hold of Sarah Schriner as she returned from a service immersion experience in Nicaragua. She graduated from Bluffton High School in 2014 and shares below what she’s been up to since then.
 
Where do you attend school now and what are you studying?
Franciscan University, studying social work. 
 

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Remember the BHS Shirts and Pants? We do

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2016 - 11:01am

Bluffton eighth grader Courtney McLaughlin's performance at Saturday's Division I boys' state finals basketball game got us to thinking.

In 2011 Kevin Gratz and his "Shirts and Pants" extra-curricular male choir of Bluffton High School boys also advanced to the state finals. That 15-member choir also performed the National Anthem.

The photo above shows the group minutes before walking out on the basketball court.

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Iconoclast View
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Bluffton singer at state finals

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2016 - 10:50am

Hey, I know that girl...she's from Bluffton! Courtney McLaughlin, Bluffton eighth grader, performed The National Anthen during a sold-old Division I boys' state finals basketball game at the Schottenstein Center on March 19. See the story below for details.

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Bluffton eighth grader performs National Anthem at Division I state basketball finals

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 25, 2016 - 10:36am

Bluffton middle school student, Courtney McLaughlin, apparently lacks stage fright.
 
She sang The National Anthem surrounded by over 14,000 persons prior to the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division I boys’ state final basketball contest in Columbus on March 19.
 
The performance was at the Schottenstein Center at The Ohio State University.
 
This wasn’t her first state tourney appearance. She also sang during the Division II semifinals last year. It doesn’t end there.
 

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