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Bluffton brushes with history

Posted by Paula Scott on April 28, 2024 - 8:24am

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton.

It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those account follow Betty’s. Each of the account in this feature are from the mid-1940s. `

Betty, whose nephew Jeremy Szabo lives in Bluffton, was an eye-witness to the war-criminal trial of Japanese General Yamashita at Manila. She wrote about her experience in a letter to her parents Forrest and Joyce Steinman, which was published on the front page of The Bluffton News in late November 1945.

Betty was on her way to the Philippines and Japan in Red Cross welfare work, when the group she was will stopped in Manila.

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Historical Bluffton
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Pirate baseball sweeps Red Devils

Posted by Staff on April 28, 2024 - 8:02am

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON __ The Bluffton High School baseball team shut out visiting Arlington in both games to sweep a non-conference doubleheader Saturday, April 27.

Bluffton won the opener 3-0 and took the nightcap, 10-0. Strong Pirate pitching held Arlington to no runs and allowed just four hits over 12 innings of the twinbill, with no extra-base hits.

The Pirates improved to 5-7 with the sweep, while Arlington fell to 3-13 with the losses.

In game one, the Pirates scored two runs in the second and made it stand up in a 3-0 shutout. 

Bluffton added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth to win by three.

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Sports
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President’s Ambassadors named at Bluffton University

Posted by Staff on April 27, 2024 - 7:18am

Bluffton University has named the students who will serve as President’s Ambassadors during the 2024-25 academic year. Selected students assist in recruiting prospective students, welcoming and greeting campus guests, and engaging alumni and donors.

President’s Ambassadors receive extensive training in networking, professional development, etiquette, conversational skills and interviewing. They also are partnered with a faculty/staff mentor and connect with President Jane Wood on a regular basis. 

First implemented on campus during the 2021-22 academic year, the program won a 2022 Independent College Advancement Associates (ICAA) Program of Excellence Award. 

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Bluffton University
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Weekend Doctor: Signs of autism

Posted by Paula Scott on April 27, 2024 - 7:08am

By Karen Martin, CPNP-PC, DNP
Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Associates of Northwest Ohio

“Autism” is one word that strikes fear in the hearts of parents, but your pediatric providers are here to help you navigate age-appropriate growth and development. In general, most children reach specific developmental milestones at certain ages. For example, a child has a time frame to master gross and fine motor skills as well as social and communicative skills. 

By the age of 18 months old, typically a child will be climbing up steps, running, stacking a tower of a couple of cubes, pointing to at least one body part, saying six words and removing some articles of clothing. Any parent can tell you how hard it is to keep clothes on a toddler. In general, take note if your child: 

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Health Services
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May 2024 Happenings at the Bluffton Senior Center

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:50am

The May 2024 Bluffton Senior Citizen Center Happenings newsletter reveals that the local organization is motoring on–and motor coaching on–with over 700 members. Participants are active at the center at 132 N Main St., which provides scheduled activities from simply socializing to Western Square Dancing. Travel is also an important offering with day trips as close as Toledo and extended tours as far as Hawaii and Alaska.

KEY DATES

The BSC May member meal is Monday, May 13, at 6 p.m. with reservations due by May 8. Paul and Joy Gruetter to perform.

Medicare 101 will be held on Wednesday, May 8, at 10:30 a.m., employees from the Allen County Council on Aging will be at the Bluffton Senior Center to discuss Medicare. 

Community meals are scheduled for May 2 and May 16 and will be served by Ebenezer Mennonite Church and Emmanuel United Church of Christ. All meals are at 6 p.m. and are free, but a good will offering is taken to benefit the local food pantry. 

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Living in Bluffton
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Jed Marquart wraps up 33 years of teaching at his alma mater

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:27am

The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering recently celebrated the career of Dr. Jed Marquart, BSME ’80, ahead of his upcoming retirement after more than 30 years of service to the university.

A native of Bluffton, Ohio, he has had a lifelong affinity for Northwest Ohio. After graduating from ONU, he worked in the engineering workforce and obtained graduate degrees from the University of Dayton. In 1991, he returned home and spent the next 33 years teaching at his beloved alma mater.

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