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Kevin Haver, Director of Johnny Appleseed Parks, was guest speaker at the Sept. 6 Bluffton Lions Club meeting.

Over a dozen parks that cover 1,200 acres are involved with this Appleseed system.

Parks offer fishing, boating, swimming, camping, playgrounds, nature programs, concerts, living history, apple/maple syrup festivals, music groups and more.

The Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District was created in June 1972. The park corporation is a non-profit organization and accepts planned giving programs.

Meet the BHS class of 1947 - reunion held today

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The Bluffton High School class of 1947, met on Sept. 21 for a class get-together at McDonald's Restaurant.

Front from left,  Joan Dailey, Alice Ruth Ramseyer, Colleen Hight, Sara Jane Amstutz and Wanda Geiger.

Standing from left, Morris Groman, Harry Criblez, Kent Stonehill, Bob Wilch and Keith Brauen.

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The Bluffton High School class of 1967 is planning its 50th class reunion. The event is July 22, 2017, and takes place at Howard Johnson's. Lima.

The planning committee is collecting e-mail addresses of class members. Contact Ann Augsburger Nagel at [email protected], Linda Steiner at 419 384 7383 or
[email protected],  to receive more details. 

King and queen will be announced in a pre-game ceremony Friday

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Bluffton High School homecoming is Friday. Several events take place this week. Those events are listed in a story elsewhere on the Icon. Here are members of this year's homecoming court.

Videos and photos of the court at bottom of this story -

Queen candidates:

Jane Richards is mom to the head coach and wife to a volunteer assistant

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Jane Richards is a pretty good sport.

She has to be.

Her son, Jeff, is head football coach at Bluffton High School. Her husband, Mike, is a volunteer coach on his son, Jeff’s coaching staff.

In a chat with Jane on Thursday at Common Grounds, the Icon learned a lot about being the mother and wife of football coaches.

For starters, her position is a lifetime career.

“I’m the stable one. Mike moved around in his coaching career,” she laughs.

Jane taught art at Cory-Rawson for over 30 years.

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Richard H. and Mary Ann Jordan will soon observe 60 years of marriage. They were wed on Sept. 16, 1956, in St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Ada, by the Rev. L.H. Wyandt.
 
The Jordans are parents of two sons, R. Timothy D. Jordan of Clarksville, Tenn., and Nathaniel W. T. (Jenni) Jordan of Bluffton, and two daughters, Amy R. King and Bethany G. (Jon) Theis, also of here.
 
Their grandchildren are Jordan, Ashleigh, and Kaity Beth King, Benjamin and Lindsay Theis, and Grant and Matthew Jordan, all of Bluffton, and Dylan Badertscher of Clarksville, Tenn.
 

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