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Look closely, there's someone you know on the BHS honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 4:23pm

Here's the third quarter Bluffton High School honor roll. Watch the Icon for the middle school and grade school honor rolls, coming soon.

9th Grade – all A:
Olivia Amstutz, Seth Andreas, Raychel Avila, Madeline Burghaze, Kennedy Coughlan, Rhett Donaldson, Amelia Mitchell, Katie Prater, Lily Shadle, Amanda Speicher, Kylee Staley, Jackson Steinmetz, Derek Swartzlander, Hannah Yost, Luke Young

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Claralice Wolf was a Wheaton College graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 3:52pm

Claralice Hanna Wolf died on March 30, 2016. Claralice was born in Lampang, Thailand, on March 4, 1921, to Loren Stanley Hanna and Hazel Brunner Hanna, both of California. Both parents served as life-long missionaries in Thailand.

Claralice was educated at Kodaikanal International School in Tamil Nadu, India, and at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College in Illinois, graduating in 1943. While a first-year student at Wheaton College she met Carl Wolf and abandoned her plan to become a medical missionary in favor of life as a minister’s wife. She and Carl were married in August 1943.

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Watch out for cow tippers - it's the BHS spring drama theme

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 3:41pm

The cast is selected and line memorization is underway for the spring Bluffton High School presentation of “The Cow Tippers,” by Eddie McPherson, according to Kevin Gratz.

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Second graders create African art

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 3:33pm

Bluffton second graders recently studied about African Kente cloth. These include geometric patterns that carries specific meaning. The second graders created their own Kente patterns by painting and stamping geometric shapes and patterns. They then wove the paper together using methods similar to the traditional Kente artists. Examples of the second graders' art is in the display window in the elementary lobby. The work above is by Alayna a student in Mrs. Fry's class.

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Julia Luginbill served Ebenezer Mennonite as choir director for 15 years

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 3:07pm

Julia A. Luginbill, 83, of Columbus Grove died March 31, 2016, at 12:50 a.m. at the Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.  Julia was born July 16, 1932, in Lima to the late Floyd and Margaret Griffith Sandy. On Oct. 25, 1953, she married Kenneth Luginbill and he preceded her in death on Aug. 5, 2002.
 

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Bluffton grain farmers will have challenging year

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 31, 2016 - 2:03pm

By Ed Lentz – OSU Extension, Hancock County
Grain farmers will have a challenging year in 2016 according to most forecasts. A large 2015 crop and weak world demand for grain has diminished the chance of significant increases in grain prices for the short term.

Farmers will try to reduce costs, but in many situations not enough reduction to offset low grain prices. Thus profit margins may be tight in the coming year.

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