The Bluffton school Music Booster chicken barbecue takes place Saturday, March 27, from 4-6 p.m. as a take-out only event.
Tickets are available in the middle school and high school offices. Tickets are $8 until March 19, when the price goes $8.50.
There will be a virtual concert that evening. The dinners are being provided by Bubba C’s and include one-half chicken, macaroni and cheese, green beans and a dinner roll.
The dinners need to be picked up at Bubba C’s location, at the corner of Jefferson Street and Jackson Street, Bluffton.
D. Joan Badertscher, 83, of Dover, Ohio, died Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.
Joan grew up near Trail, Ohio, and was a graduate of Walnut Creek High School. She was also a graduate of Bluffton College, where she met her future husband Daryl Badertscher. They were married on June 9, 1957, and celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary this past year. Joan began her career teaching elementary education in the Lima City School System.
The family moved to Sugarcreek, Ohio, in 1961 and then to Dover, Ohio, in 1965.
Reviewed by Robert McCool
Nomadland (W.W.North, ISBN978-0-393-24931-6) has all that a non-fiction book should have: the what, the who, the when, and most importantly, the why. It is a handbook on “Surviving America In The Twenty-First Century” as it states in its sub-title.
First off, it's a book about a growing subculture here in America, one that carries its home around on its back around the country and settles in no place for long. They refer to themselves as “rubber tramps” because they live on the open road with far-flung destinations.
Here's a recap of the beginning of a 95-year-old Bluffton tradition, today part of forgotten Bluffton.
In many cases this 95-year tradition is the only thing, except for a scrapbook or two, that most Bluffton High School alumni still have on their bookshelf.
We know it as the Bluffton High School yearbook, aka “Buccaneer.”
FROM ADA ICON - The Icon visited Ada schools Friday to take photos of staff and teachers being vaccinated. On the way home we couldn't help but notice this feline in an Ada house window. It was gazing out the window when we arrived at the school and still looking out when we left. The image of the branches in the window reflection make this an even more outstanding scene.
