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Phil Zimmerly at Common Grounds

Your hometown on Facebook says Lima. Where did you actually grow up? School?

I grew up just outside of Bluffton, just across the county line and in Cory Rawson School district.

I seem to remember you telling some stories about yourself as a kid that suggest you might have been ornery. Elaborate, please?

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The Bluffton High School class of 1948 held a reunion in Bluffton on June 18.

Members attending, seated left to right: Ceacle Potee Shields, Peggy Eckenwiler Augsburger, Esther Lugibihl Brauen, Marilyn Fett Bullock.

Standing left to right: Roger Bell, Mary Schmidt Amstutz, Maurice Garmatter, Wade Oberly, James Ewing, Mary Jane Burkholder Gilliom, Jean Burkholder Reichenbach.

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The Bluffton High School class of 1965 held its 45th reunion in the Bluffton town hall on June 19.

Those attending, front row (l-r) Fred Rodabaugh, Lu Shetler Derstine, Janette Benroth Reineke, Jayne Barnett McGarrity, Susan Lehman Sommer, Kay Motter Ahten, Larry Moser.

2nd row (l-r) Steve Smith, Sam Reineke, Tom Bell, Richard Herr, Larry Amstutz, Dennis Morrison, Tom Harvey, Dave Travis, Don Patterson.

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Kendra Pannabecker

Kendra Pannabecker and her parents, Tom and Helen, Tucson, AZ., recently visited her grandma, Wanda Pannabecker, Bluffton.

How old are you?

I'm nine years old. I'll be in the fourth grade at Tully Elementary School in Tucson.

Where were you born?

Oh, I hate this question. I was born in China - close to Hong Kong. I was two years old when I was adopted.

What do you like to do in Bluffton?

I like to play croquet and go shopping in the Et Cetera Shop and just have a lazy time.

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The Bluffton Icon is excited to announce a new venture with Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, according to Fred Steiner of The Icon. Starting today, the Icon has a special page devoted entirely to news and photos of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio.

"The page may be accessed several ways, and we see it as one additional benefit to Icon viewers," he said.

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Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio will hold an informational seminar aimed at for improving and enriching persons lives. The event, titled "Embracing aging with knowledge," is at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 24, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

The seminars are free and open to the public. This topic of the June 24 seminar is community services. Four persons will give presentations.

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