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Bluffton High School 2011 homecoming is Friday night and this year's homecoming court is in place for the weekend. Watch for videos coming.

FRIDAY PARADE INFO: Line up at The Centre parking lot 5:30 p.m. Parade starts at 6 p.m., south on Main Street to College and onto Harmon Field. Football Moms sponsor the parade.

Click for a video introduction of the underclassmen.

Click for a video introduction of the seniors.

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First National Bank announces two major appointments this month, one to its board of directors and another as the Pandora branch manager.

Jared L. Lehman of Bluffton was named to the board of directors and Amy J. Searfoss of Miller City as branch manager of the Pandora office.

Jared Lehman

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The winner of Week 4 of the Icon College Football Contest is Dan Lee. He accumulated 10 points to win the contest this week.

Other contestants:
9 points - Ben Reineke, Joyce Suter, Logan Steingass and Lyle Arnold.

8 points - Andy Althaus, Andy Borgelt, Dave Moser, Duane Bollenbacher, John Clevidence, Marlon Young, Mike Burris, Randy Spallinger and Scott Gleason.

7 points - Becky Warren, Dan Smith, David Glick, James Crawfis, Jared Lehman, Jerry Cupples, Melisha Henry, Nancy Armour and Zach Conrath.

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The winner of Week 5 of the Icon High School Football Contest is Becky Warren. She and 10 other contestants all tied with 10 points this week.

Three contestants were eliminated by virtue of the 1st tie-breaker by picking Bluffton to win by 1-7 points. Of the remaining eight contestants Warren was the only one to correctly pick Columbus Grove to lose by 1-7 points.

Other contestants:
10 points - Andy Althaus, Dave Moser, Duane Bollenbacher, Jerry Cupples, John Dailey, Mike Burris, Nancy Armour, Andy Borgelt, David Glick and Joyce Suter.

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Some of the auction items

The Service Group of Mennonite Home Communities will hold a silent auction and bake sale during this year's fall festival. Some of the items you can bid upon are:
a tiled top table by Wayne Shafer,
two of Brauen's decorative gourds,
a butterfly afghan,
poinsettia quilt,
folk art birdhouses,
a basket of canned goodies,
a large bird feeder by Bill Swartley,
and much more.

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Bev Steiner has worn a multitude of hats in her life: mother, wife, grandmother, medical technician, and others, but at the Mennonite Memorial Home she is known for her fragrant gifts of potpourri.

Bev, the flower lady, refined her art of making her potpourri after she came to the Mennonite Home to recover from a shattered femur.

She tells the story about the first time she decided to make some potpourri. She took the flowers from a great nieces wedding and made some for the bride and their mothers.

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