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Bluffton 4th and 5th graders

Bluffton elementary released its fourth and fifth grade honor roll for the second quarter of the school year.

• Click here for BHS honor roll previously posted
• Click here for middle school honor roll previously posted

The elementary honor roll is posted below, and it is posted as an attachment below:

It's the Bluffton Middle School honor roll

Here's the Bluffton Middle School honor roll for the second quarter of 2019-20 school year.

All “A” Honor Roll

6th Grade:  Isaiah Ansley, Keith Burkholder, Oliver Combs, Grady Coonfare, Javen Crawfis, Calvin Derstine, Kynzie Ewing, Emily Granger, Hudson Phillips, Micah Ream, Macy Schaadt, Ava Smallcombe, Elizabeth Suter, Blair Utendorf

Bluffton Lions will hear Beth Seibert, candidate for Allen County Commissioner, at its noon, Tuesday, Feb. 4, meeting in the third floor of the town hall.

The club will also sponsor the Bluffton community meal held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.

Several additional club news items are part of the January newsletter attached at the bottom of this story.

There's someone you know on the BHS honor roll

Here is Bluffton High School’s second quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year:

9th Grade – all A:
Landon Armstrong, Sabina Clingerman, Jaden Coonfare, Kameron Coughlan, Hannah Davis, Samuel Derstine, Allison Diller, Riley Eachus, Aubrey Edwards, Levi Graham, Nolan Hoffman, Amy Jebsen, Thayne Kleman, Aiden Koontz, Gavin Kruse, Abbie Lemley, Olivia Matthews, CJ McCall, Emerson Meza, Isaiah Mikesell, Landon Novak, Erik Nygaard, Jonah Rehm, Makayla Schweingruber, Carson Soper, Alyssa Speicher, Lauren Speicher, Marissa Thompson, Elijah Wenger

Military Police Sergeant Chad R. Cupples will receive the Combat Action Badge from U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan in a ceremony at 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 23, at the Congressman’s office, 3121 W. Elm St., Lima.

*The Combat Action Badge (CAB) is a United States military award given to soldiers of the U.S. Army of any rank and who are not members of an infantry or special forces unit, for being "present and actively engaging or being engaged by the enemy, and performing satisfactorily in accordance with prescribed rules of engagement" at any point in time after Sept. 18, 2001.*

Seth Gladwell, a Bluffton High School senior, is the Icon's student artist of the month.

He has taken Art One, Design One, Ceramics One, Mural and Cremices Two. 

"In Ceramics Two I tried something new this year where I added strips of clay to the top of my pot that I threw on the pottery wheel and then continued to throw it larger," he said. 

"This allowed me to get it the height that I wanted it to be. This took me about two weeks to throw.

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