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Individual wrestling state tournament will become a Friday-Saturday-Sunday event; girls basketball, the same weekend as wrestling, will leave the Schottenstein Center

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The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced changes to the 2020 individual wrestling and girls basketball state tournaments. The wrestling state tournament will move to a Friday-Saturday-Sunday format (March 13-15) at the Schottenstein Center, while the girls basketball state tournament, which is the same weekend (March 12-14), will leave the Schottenstein Center. 

The OHSAA has not yet finalized the location for the 2020 girls basketball state tournament. That is also the same weekend as the OHSAA’s ice hockey and Division I girls and boys bowling state tournaments. 

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Paul I. Dyck, 93, will be remembered in many ways. His family provided the following remembrances. Please click here for his obituary.

Paul’s family and friends remember him as an active, curious learner, generous with his time and stories, and a gifted wood worker.

From his childhood on the western prairies of Canada during the Depression to the end of his life, he showed a gift for initiative and innovation.

Memorial service to be held May 19

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Paul I. Dyck, 93, of Bluffton died April 13, 2019.  He was born on Jan 14, 1926, in Olds, Alberta, Canada. He married Lois Mae (Bartel) Dyck on Aug. 14, 1956 and she preceded him in death on Dec. 8, 2005.

CLICK HERE for a column "Remembering Paul Dyck."

After completing undergraduate (Bethel College, Kansas) and seminary training (Chicago Theological Seminary), he and his wife moved to India in 1956 with their two young sons, to serve as missionaries with the Mennonite Mission Board.

State Rep. Riordan McClain represents the 87th House District

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State Representative Riordan McClain will address Bluffton University’s 2019 graduating class during the Sunday, May 5, commencement ceremony in the Sommer Center.

McClain, a 2006 alumnus, is serving his first full term in the Ohio House of Representatives, having been appointed in January 2018 during the 132nd General Assembly. He represents the 87th House District, which includes Wyandot, Crawford and Morrow counties, as well as portions of Marion and Seneca counties.

Bluffton Paving will handle three of these projects

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Bluffton Paving is busy this month with three area Ohio Department of Transportation projects in the area.

ODOT reports the following projects performed by the Bluffton company:

• State Route 65 between Fourth Street and Elm Street, Lima, will be restricted to one lane of through traffic in each direction through the work zone for pavement resurfacing beginning Wednesday, April 24.

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Jean Ann Stratton 82, died on Saturday, April 13, 2019, at 1:20 a.m. at Lima Memorial Health System. 

She was born on June 20, 1936, in Lima, Ohio, to the late Oliver and Clara (Wilson) Amstutz. On May 22, 1954, Jean married Rolla M. Stratton Sr. and he preceded her in death on Sept. 7, 2015.

Jean was a homemaker.

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