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Summer strings is underway this month, according to Rachael Lewis, Bluffton schools string teacher.

Several classes have already taken place. The remaining summer classes are on Wednesdays June 21, June 28 and July 5.

The program taken place in the elementary strings room and students are welcome to come to as many classes are fit their summer schedule.

Bluffton volleyball camp, open to girls entering 4th to 8th grade takes place Monday and Tuesday, June 19-20, in the Bluffton High School gym, accoridng to Calista Altenburger, varsity coach.

Players are grouped based on gae and skill level. Seventh and eighth grader camp is from 9 a.m. to noon. Fourth to sixth grader camp is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Program "Letters from the Swiss Settlement 1840-1860"

The Swiss Community Historical Society’s annual Swiss Day is Sunday, June 25, according to Gary Wetherill, president of the society.

This year’s event includes:
• 12:30 p.m. potluck at Ebenezer Mennonite Church
• 2:30 p.m. program – “Letters from the Swiss Settlement 1840-1860.”
• Following the program – Schumacher homestead open house

Vendor booths still available; invitation to join the parade

Planning is underway for this year’s Ada Area Chamber of Commerce’s Harvest and Herb Festival, according to David Dellifield, chamber president.

This year’s festival is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 16. As in past year’s, it will fill Ada’s Main Street from Highland to College. Main Street will be closed at State Route 235 all the way to State Route 81.

The festival has 180 spaces available for vendors.  Booths are 12 feet wide by 8 feet deep and are available while they last. A limited number of booths requiring electricity are also available while they last.

Robert "Bob" C. Angus, N.D., 70, died June 14, 2017, at Lima Memorial Health System. Bob was born July 23, 1946, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the late Robert and Violet (Deiters) Angus who preceded him in death. On May 27, 1995, he married Elizabeth "Betsey" Travis who survives.

Bob graduated from Rogers High School in Wyoming, Michigan, and later received his Bachelor's of Science in Nutrition at Donsbach University and his Ph.D. in Therapeutic Philosophy from World University. He was a naturopathic physician since 2000 at Celebration of Health in Bluffton. 

Bluffton food and nutrition major proves it to her four brothers

Morgan Campbell, a Bluffton University senior and food and nutrition major from Hillsboro, has four brothers.

She knows first-hand just how much they eat and just how picky they can be about what they eat.

So when choosing a semester-long topic to develop for the class Nutrition Education and Communication, the choice was simple. Campbell answered the question “Can family meals provide the best of both worlds: low cost and healthy?” The answer she discovered - yes!

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