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Brandon Huber is the winner of the Icon Week 2 College NLF football contest, according to Corey Greer, contest judge. 

Huber, Duane Bollenbacher and John Clevidence all picked 11 games correctly.  Bollenbacher was eliminated in Tie-Breaker 1 by picking Northwestern to lose 1-3 while the other two correctly picked Northwestern to lose 4-10.  In Tie-Breaker 2 Clevidence picked Cincinnati to lose by 11 or more while Huber picked the Bengals to win by 1-3 (closer to the actual win of 18 points).

Blanchard Valley Health System OB/GYNs Dr. Allison Westcott and Dr. Kimberlee Perkins are now offering obstetrics and gynecology care in Bluffton. They are seeing patients at Bluffton Women’s Care, 559 Harmon Road, Bluffton, alongside Dr. Jacob Dagani and Certified Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Ulrich.

Dr. Westcott received her medical degree from The University of Toledo and completed an OB/GYN residency at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia, South Carolina.

The employees at Mennonite Home Health and Senior Services are joining home health care providers across Ohio and the nation in marking November as National Home Care and Hospice Month.

“Home care allows patients to be cared for in the comfort of their own homes, regardless of their medical condition, so that they can be close to their loved ones,” said Kathy Rode R.N., Director of Mennonite Home Health and Senior Services.

Maple Crest did it again. It enticed the area's best pie bakers to show off their pie-baking skills during the Nov. 9 pie baking contest. Here's the results. (Watch for a video.)

Best of show
Coconut cream – Alice Leonard

Fruit pies
1st – Apple crisp – Becky Luginbill
2nd – Strawberry rhubarb – Teresa Schaub
3rd – Dutch Apple – Vickie Frysinger

Maple Crest pie contest, 11 9 12

The next Maple Crest Senior Living, Bluffton, Sunday buffet is  Nov. 11, according to Daren Lee, director of Maple Crest.

The menu includes:
• Apricot glazed turkey breast
• Ham

• Sweet potato casserole
• Mixed vegetables
• Cranberry bread
• Pumpkin pie
• Coffee and iced tea.

With the 2012 presidential election fresh in our minds, here's a description how Bluffton watched the 1916 presidential election. This is a reprint from the book "A Good Place to Miss: Bluffton Stories 1900-1975." The person telling the story is Milt Sprunger.

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