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Sydney Hoff, junior, involved in many school and outside school activities

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The September Student of the Month at Bluffton High School is Sydney Hoff, daughter of Scott and Brigette Hoff of Bluffton. Sydney is a junior and is a 4.000 student.

Sydney is involved in marching band, concert band, pep band, jazz band, show choir , concert choir, math club, math team, Latin club, Spanish club, Art club, SADD club, National Honor Society, Allen Lima Leadership, Allen County Junior Fair board, Beaverdam Bunch 4-H club, Future Shepherds 4-H club, St. John Mennonite Church Youth group and is an AWANA children's K-2nd grade ministry leader.

First group information meeting is Oct. 19

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Bluffton High School teachers Vickie Garmon and Brigette Hoff will lead a trip to London, Paris and the Alps and invite community members to participate.

The community is invited along with students entering the 9th grade and above as of 2018.  The trip will take place in June of 2018. 

"We will be having our first meeting Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m. in Bluffton High School  Please enter the College Street doors and go up the stairs to Room 303," said Garmon. "We lead a trip to Italy and Greece in June of this year.  Here is a group photo of our trip."

Margie told The Icon: “It was a really fun night to have our family together and everyone under one roof, if just for one night!”

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The musical Woodruff family – each a Bluffton High School marching band alum - returned to Bluffton on Friday to be part of the BHS alumni band. 

They were part of a 40-member alumni band marching with the BHS band during a pre-game performance.

Joshua played trombone; Mary, E-flat horn; Rachel, clarinet; Emma, cymbals and Noah is this year's senior field commander.

Here's an update on each Woodruff:

• Joshua, graduate of Brigham Young University, lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Sarah. He attends Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science.

Visionary of the year and visionary citizen of the year awards to be presented

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The Allen County Visionaries will hold their annual dinner on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Shawnee Country Club. The Visionaries is the private arm of Allen County’s economic development efforts. The nearly 100-member companies and individuals provide half the funding of the Allen Economic Development Group.

Makes for an interesting photo essay by Jamie Nygaard

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pump·kin - ˈpəm(p)kən/ - noun
noun: pumpkin; plural noun: pumpkins
1. 
a large rounded orange-yellow fruit with a thick rind, edible flesh, and many seeds.
2. 
the plant of the gourd family that produces the pumpkin, having tendrils and large lobed leaves and native to warm regions of America.

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"I enjoy the freedom of art and that it allows you to show your creativness."

Those are thoughts from Sierra Ribley, the Icon's first high school artist of the month. Our feature will focus on Bluffton High School artists, their works and their ideas about art.

Sierra is a senior at BHS. Her art classes have inclulded Art I, Design I, Ceramics I, Ceramics II and Art seminar. She is undecided about college.

The work she holds is a self portrait. She painted it with acrylic on canvas.

Vickie Garmon is the Bluffton High School art teacher.
 

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