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Maple Crest Senior Living Community, Bluffton, will host its annual fall pie-baking contest, with over $300 in cash prizes on Friday, Nov. 6.

A spaghetti supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. takes place the evening of the contest.

The cost is $7 for a spaghetti dinner with breadsticks, salad, dessert (the contest pies), and a beverage.

Persons attending may bid on the pies in the silent auction beginning at 4:30 p.m.  Each pie has an $8 opening bid. All proceeds will benefit the Maple Crest Activities Program.
 

Interviewed by Sophie Marcum

Hannah graduated from BHS in 2012 and will graduate college this spring. She took the time to reflect on her experiences in college and share her ambitions for the future with us.

Where do you attend school and what are you studying?
I go to Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. I am a Biology major with minors in Exercise Science, Coaching, and Honors.

Kris Lowry, AVP, Branch Manager at The First National Bank, recently graduated from the 2015 OBL Bank Management School sponsored by the Ohio Bankers League.  Lowry was one of 31 bankers who completed the intensive one-week program earlier this month.

Three Bluffton seventh graders are winners in the 2015-16 Bluffton Lions Club peace poster contest.

The students are:
• Louise Dunlap, first
• Olivia Barnes, second
• Ayden McDougle, third

This year's theme "Share Peace," was open to students ages 11,12 or 13. Each poster was judged on originality, artistic merit and expression of the theme. Winning posters advance to the district level judging.

Monsters, princesses, football players, butterflies, lots of Wonder Woman and even trees.

All of these and more rang doorbells in Bluffton on Thursday evening during the official trick-or-treat night.

LOTS OF PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY.

The Icon captured many of these one-night wonders on digital film. We offer viewers a glimpse of the creative forces at work in the photos below.

Megan Sycks, a junior, is the October Bluffton High School student of the month. She is the daughter of  David and Linda Sycks. Megan is a junior and has a 4.000 GPA.

Megan is active in extra curricular activities including show choir, chamber choir, jazz band, pep band, marching band and drama club.

She is on the all A honor roll, a National Honor Society member, and has received academic awards for English and Spanish.

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