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15 minutes with Rick Ramseyer

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 5, 2010 - 11:15am

Were you born in Bluffton? If not, how old were you when you moved to Bluffton?

My parents, Dick and Elfrieda, moved our family from Illinois to Bluffton in 1969 when Dad started a job at Bluffton College. I was 7 and my sister, Martha, had just turned 10. We lived in a white house at 108 Spring Street. Our neighbors on either side were the Slotters and the Friesens, with the Raids across from us. Stan and Ruth Naylor lived down the street, and I became good friends right away with their son, Jeff. I started third grade that fall in Mrs. Shetler's class.

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Lions Club picks Jean Muller as citizen of the year

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 4, 2010 - 5:30pm

Longtime Bluffton resident and community support Jean Muller will be recognized as the 2009 Bluffton Lions Club citizen of the year.

The presentation will be made in a dinner at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 16, in the third floor of the town hall. Tickets are $13 each. Reservations are required and may be made by contacting Daryl Shields at 419-358-0810 by March 10.

Muller served for 25 years on the Bluffton Stone Co. board of directors. He is a past member of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Bluffton Lions Club.

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15 minutes with Kendra Bermosk

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 3, 2010 - 1:21pm
Kendra Bermosk

First, give me a little back ground information:
When did you graduate from Bluffton University and what degree do you hold from there?

I graduated from Bluffton when it was still Bluffton College in 2001. I have a communications degree from there.

You live in Bluffton, right? Where?

Yes, I do live in Bluffton on Cherry Street.

Okay, now, one at a time, tell me about all of your jobs.

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University student Tsedey Biru is eight time zones from home

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 1, 2010 - 7:59am
Tsedey Biru at home in Ethiopia

Bluffton's international flavor is one of this community's best-kept secrets. This is the first in a series of features on Bluffton University international students. The writer is Jessanna Buschur, first-year Bluffton student, a broadcast and journalism major. Bluffton alumni from the 1970s, may know her parents, Bob and Jenelle (Roth) Buschur.

Tsedey Biru
From Ethiopia
Senior at Bluffton University
Biology and chemistry major

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After 30 years, Mark Bourassa has an Olympic-sized collection

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 28, 2010 - 1:09pm

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

One of the more prominent items in Mark Bourassa's office is a framed poster announcing the 1986 Olympics in Amsterdam. If you're an Olympics historian, you might remember that Amsterdam lost the bid for those games to Barcelona, making the "bid poster" something of a collectible.

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Icon intern

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 27, 2010 - 4:53am

ICON INTERN

Austin Arnold is the winter-spring Icon journalism intern from Bowling Green State University. The senior journalism major has written several feature stories for the Icon. His most recent tells about 5 Myles High's recent music CD. Here he interviews Paula Scott of the Friends of the Library. That feature will be posted later in the week.

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