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Meagan Giblin, a Miller City High School senior, is the 2013 winner of the Barbara Fleming Memorial Scholarship sponsored by Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, Bluffton and Pandora (MHCO). 

Giblin is the daughter of Michael and Becky Giblin. This annual award of $500 provides scholarship support to an individual pursuing a degree as a Licensed Practical Nurse, a Registered Nurse or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. 

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Stephen Tatarkov, Bluffton High School junior, is the April BHS student of the month. At Bluffton he is a member of the high school math club. He has a 4.0 grade point average.

He participates on an indoor soccer team. He is a three-year letterman for soccer and a two-year letterman for track. He received the All-District and All-Ohio award in soccer. He was the Honda Mathematics Gold Medal Award Winner.

 

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Apollo Career Center student Gabe Cozadd will be traveling to Kansas City for his performance in the state SkillsUSA competition.

Cozadd, an Automated Manufacturing Technology junior from Bluffton, won first place and received a gold medal in CNC Milling and qualified for the National SkillsUSA competition held June 23-29, in Kansas City, Missouri.

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The Apollo Career Center Culinary Arts students performed top notch in the recent state FCCLA competitions. These students will be attending the National FCCLA skills competition held in July in Nashville, Tennessee.

They each received a $6,000 scholarship for each gold rating. Eric Teidosio, Shawnee, Dining Room Attendant; Lauren Harvey, Elida, Food Innovations; Sarah Bogart, Columbus Grove, Tori Hunt, Shawnee, and Kristen Kryzkowski, Bath, Chapter Showcase Team; Eric Teodosio, Shawnee, Eric Otto, Columbus Grove, and Amanda Shafer - Columbus Grove, Entrepreneurship Team.

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It’s difficult to know which the residents and contestants at Richland Manor’s pie baking contest enjoyed more – making their pies, or tasting them, as bakers and tasters alike lined up to sample the entries at the campus’ Pie Baking Contest recently.

Prior to the contest, Richland Manor residents Ruth Wildermuth and Michele Cardone made a homemade crust for the Caramel Chocolate Apple Crunch Pie they were entering in the contest on behalf of the residents Cooking Club.

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This week, The Icon talked with four third graders, Presley Nelson (student in Mrs. Bogart’s class), Olivia McCamery (Armstrong), Skyler Scoles (Raeburn), and Makala Nye (Kingsley).

What’s your favorite third grade subject?
Presley: Math. I like the math facts.
Olivia: Reading. I read three or four books a week.
Skyler: Reading. Books are interesting.
Makala: Science and social studies.

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