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Epilepsy awareness event honors former Bluffton and North Baltimore student

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The third annual Drew Rayle Memorial midget football game, honoring a Bluffton youth who died in 2014, takes place Saturday, Oct. 1, at 5 p.m. in Memorial Park, North Baltimore. The event supports the Drew Rayle Memorial Fund.

This is an epilepsy awareness event. During his brief life, Rayle, as an elementary student, attended school in North Baltimore and later moved to Bluffton where he attended school. He played midget football for both teams.

Lots of events going on at school - here's a summary

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Bluffton Middle School is busy this fall. Here’s some of the news items from the Bluffton school website.

Newest members of the student senate are:
8th Grade:  Cierra Ackerman, Clara Matthews and Julia Smallcombe
7th Grade:  Lauren Gray, Reagan Mittendorf and Skyler Scoles
6th Grade:  Amy Jebsen, Olivia Matthews and Olivia Smallcombe

Income eligibility guidellines for free and reduced meals are in this story

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Bluffton Child Development Center, 325 County Line Road, Bluffton, announces its participation in the USDA-funded Child and Adult Care Food Program, according to Francine Donathan, director.

The attached chart shows income eligibility guidelines for free and reduced price meals effective July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017.

 

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What's for lunch in the Bluffton schools during October? The answer is here.

CLICK HERE for the October school menu.

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Monday's rainfall was recorded as nearly one-half inch by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Open the attachment below for the daily weather summary from Sept. 1 to 26.

Descendants and many other visitors spent Saturday at the Swiss homestead

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You can go home again. Many did on Saturday.

If you are - or are related to - a Schumacher, Diller, Suter, Basinger, Zimmerly, Amstutz, Neuenschwander (and its spelling variations), Hilty, Bixel, Suter, Moser, Luginbuhl (and its spelling variations), Burkholder, Steiner, Badertscher, Gratz, Bucher, Augsburger, Geiger, Althaus, Gerber… you get the idea.

MORE PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY -

Descendants of Swiss immigrants to Bluffton-Pandora have a homestead where they and all their friends can view rural life in the 1840s.

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