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Tickets available for April 16 recognition dinner and program

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Samuel W. Diller will receive the Bluffton Lions Club 2018 Citizen of the Year award during a  dinner in his honor on Tuesday, April 16, in the town hall.

A life-long resident of Bluffton, Diller has been an attorney for more than 45 years. He has serving on many community boards, including Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton Public Library, Triplett Foundation, Bluffton Community Assistance, Easter Seals, and as village solicitor of Bluffton, Arlington and Jenera for many years.  In 2017 the Bluffton Sportsmen's Club named tagged trout number in his honor.

Recognizing academic achievements of BHS sophomores, juniors and seniors

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The Bluffton High School 20th annual academic letter banquet held on March 12 recognized academic achievements of sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Academic letters were presented to  students who have achieved a 3.5 grade point average or higher this school year.

Students with * behind their name are students have repeated receiving awards.

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Earlier this winter, the Icon posted a photo of twin who attended Bluffton schools in 1951. That photo is posted below.

The photo posed the question, how many twins attend Bluffton elementary this year?

The Icon put the question to Tim Closson, principal, and after a moment of thinking, he said, "I believe we have seven sets of twins!"

As a result, here's the photo of this year's twins.

Obtaining this photo was more difficult than you might think.

First, our fickle winter weather with school delays played against us.

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Two area students were named to the Dean’s List of Defiance College for the fall semester. The two are Sidney Faine of Bluffton and Amie Ricksecker of Jenera.

The honors list is for students achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and enrolled in 6-11 semester hours for which letter grades are given. Students who have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and are enrolled in 12 or more semester hours for which letter grades are given are named to the Dean’s list.

Bluffton resident featured in lead story about K&M Tire in national trade publication

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Bluffton resident Greg Ring, director of training and development at K&M Tire, Delphos, was recently featured in a front page story about K&M in "Tire Business," the bi-weekly tire dealer trade newspaper.

Ring addressed tire dealers during the Delphos wholesale distributor’s 2019 dealer conference held in Dallas, Texas. His photo was the feature photo of the issue accompanying the story.

Over 1,000 persons representing 500 different dealer locations plus 45 vendors attended K&M’s dealer conference.

Ashley Eachus wants to pursue early childhood education

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Ashley Eachus, a senior, is the Bluffton High School February student of the month.

She is a member of the Symphonic Choir, Show Choir, Chamber Choir, Drama club, Renaissance and National Honor Society. 

Ashley is a member of the BHS volleyball, basketball and soccer teams. She received an all-conference honorable mention from the NWC in volleyball her junior year. She is also an academic letter winner, and served as senior captain on the girls' basketball team that won the Northwest Conference title.

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