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Relay for Life teams hosting BBQ fundraiser

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2013 - 7:08pm

The Bluffton Relay for Life teams are hosting a BBQ chicken fundraiser on Friday, June 21 from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.  

Dinners will include 1/2 chicken, baked potato, cole slaw and a roll.  Homemade desserts will be for sale at pickup.

Get your tickets from Making Strides Team Members or call 419-358-0001.

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Events
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Bluffton University students using Summer Discovery grants

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2013 - 7:02pm

Two Bluffton University students are exploring possible future careers this summer with the help of $1,500 Schultz Discovery Grants awarded through the university.

Kayla Craig, a sophomore from Tallmadge, Ohio, majoring in psychology and social work, is spending four weeks gathering experiences in those fields at mental health agencies and other sites, primarily in the Akron area.

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Bluffton University
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Bluffton junior from Illinois getting closer look at ministry

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2013 - 7:01pm

A Bluffton University junior from Hopedale, Ill., is serving this summer in an Orrville, Ohio, church as part of Mennonite Church USA’s Ministry Inquiry Program (MIP).

Participating in the program at Orrville Mennonite Church is Ashley Litwiller, a youth ministries and recreation major at Bluffton. Her home church is Hopedale Mennonite.

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Bluffton University
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Senior citizens honor Mary Koontz with June 21 retirement party

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2013 - 7:01pm

Thirty years, countless hours and more sewing and quilting projects then you can imagine. That’s an attempt to sum up Mary Koontz’s time at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.

Koontz will be recognized for her 30 years of service to the Center during a 2 to 4 p.m., Friday, June 21 retirement tea. The event is open to the public.

Koontz started working at the Center in May of 1983. She was hired by Betty Cookson and continued at the center working with the next two directors Rosemary Meyers and Tonya Meyers.

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People
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Top scholarships awarded at Bluffton University

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2013 - 7:00pm

Two incoming students at Bluffton University have been awarded the university’s full-tuition Presidential Scholarship, valued at more than $105,000 for four years, while two others have received a Dean’s Scholarship, worth more than $80,000 over the same period.

Daniel Piero of Medina, Ohio, and Aaron Johnson of Goshen, Ind., are the Presidential Scholarship recipients.

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Bluffton University
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Four important Bluffton College women in the 1940s

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2013 - 3:45pm

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Here's a photo showing four important women who had significant connections to Bluffton College, as you will soon learn. Leland Gerber took this photo.

We rely on Alice Ruth Ramseyer's [her husband, Bob, is the son of Ferne Ramseyer in the photo] identifiction of the women. Here's her explanation with The Icon's [comments inside brackets]:

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Historical Bluffton
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