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To compete at Northwest Ohio YMCA-League Championships

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On Saturday and Sunday, March 10-11, the Bluffton area will have 27 swimmers competing at the Northwest Ohio YMCA-League Championships at Bowling Green State University. They will compete with more than 800 swimmers from the Northwest Ohio league that includes 18 teams from lower Michigan and northwest Ohio.

All of these swimmers are on the Bluffton Sardines summer swim team, but for winter swim, they swim with the Lima YMCA Barracuda Team or the Putnam County YMCA.

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Several area students were named to the Dean’s List for fall semester 2017-18 at Ohio Northern University. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must attain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and be enrolled full-time.

From Bluffton:
• Molly Meyer
• Zane Meyer
• Brittany Sommers
• Stephen Tatarkov
• Mathew Spallinger

From Rawson:
• Rayanne Nye
• Courtney Ritter

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Edie Reichenbach, 1175 Township Road 28, Bluffton, wrote the winner caption to Icon’s “write a caption to this photo contest.”

The photo shows Roger Edwards, president of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association, holding bags of senior citizen peanut brittle.

The winning caption reads: “Why, of course, officer, I was just heading over to pay for these.”

She wins two tickets to the Saturday, March 10, murder mystery dinner theatre at The Centre, which features “Revenge of Frankenstein.”

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Former Bluffton resident Betty R. Steiner died Feb. 27, 2018. She was born on Dec. 2, 1925, in Vaughnsville, Ohio, to Annabelle (Clawson) and Clarence Kohli. On April 5, 1947 she married Evan Steiner. He died on Feb. 19, 2017; just a few weeks from their 70th wedding anniversary.

Her children are: Carol (Tom) Bell, Westerville, Ohio/ Hobe Sound, Fla.; Greg (Chris), Hobe Sound, Fla./ Indian River, Mich.; Bob (Patsy), Hobe Sound, Fla./Highlands, N.C. She has eight grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, and two great great grandchildren.

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F. Michael Giovinazzo, 84, died at 3:05 a.m., March 5, 2018, at Kindred Hospital in Lima. Mike was born May 8, 1933, in Lima to the late Dominic and Teresa (D'anna) Giovinazzo.  He was a brother to Frank, Jim, Angie Adams, Teresa Swarner and Nick Giovinazzo, who preceded him in death.

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Emmanuel United Church of Christ, 8374 Phillips Road, Bluffton, will hold a fish fry from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 9. Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for youth 10 and under

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