Sophomore Ethan Bogart won the 300 hurdles • Senior Simon Derstine captured first in the 800 meters • Sophomore Brianna Tabler won the girls pole vault to pace BHS
Story and photo by Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Bluffton track and field team fared well at the annual 15-team Ada Invitational on a cool but sunny Saturday at War Memorial Stadium.
Carey captured first in the girls meet with 112.33 points. Spencerville finished second with 102.5, and Van Wert came in third (99). Bluffton came in sixth out of 14 teams with 39.33 points.
The boys meet was won handily by Van Wert with 133 points. Arlington nosed out Bluffton for second, 76 to 75. Kenton and Allen East tied for fourth with 72 points.
FROM ADA ICON - Damage from this weekends rain was not limited to Bluffton. Ada Icon photographer, Ken Collins, took these three photos on Sunday afternoon in rural Ada.
The falls of Bluffton made its annual one-day appearance over the weekend. The water here flows from the Big Riley into the Buckeye. Fortunately the Bluffton Sportsmen's Club trout derby was last weekend. The dike between the creek and the Buckeye was reinforced earlier this year. In a few days we'll see how well it withstood this water force.
It's Founders Hall at Bluffton College in the 1950s. You are viewing the Bluffton Men's Garden Club annual flower show. If you look close enough Kermit Herr is probably somewhere in the crowd.
During its day, this annual show could rival the entries in the Allen County Fair flower show.
Paul Diller took this photo and Jim Diller shares it with the Icon.
This is an essay by Fred Steiner published in Bluffton Anthology. For more information about the book click here.
It’s difficult to count how many mothers have touched one’s life. Go ahead. Try counting.
Being Mother’s Day weekend, I’ll make a feeble attempt to demonstrate what I mean. My account could be the same as your account. Only the names would change.
An artist’s rendition from 1961 examines that question more closely.
If you think nothing changes in Bluffton, think again. Here’s a bird’s-eye-view of Bluffton created 60 years ago, during the 1961 Bluffton centennial.
It shows the configuration of the village at that time.
The centennial committee also added the location of Bluffton’s first school house, a log grist mill, DeFord’s mill and the Townsend mill, which were among highlights of a centennial history tour.
