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The Bluffton community’s 12th annual Fall Festival, with many family-oriented activities, takes place throughout the community on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.

Events take place at Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Mennonite Memorial Home, downtown Bluffton, at the Swiss Community Historical Society homestead on Bixel Road, Bluffton Family Recreation and Bluffton Public Library.

Watch for more details in The Icon.

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The following babies were born at Bluffton Hospital during July and August.

July 16
Charlee Marie Shoemaker, son of Christen and Brandon Shoemaker, Findlay.

July 18
Peter Albert Schulze, son of Andrew ad Rachel Schulze, Findlay.

July 22
Lilliauna Rose Perkins, daughter of Matthew Perkins and Natasha Lawless, Findlay.

July 23
Ezekiel Job Halker, son of Job and Jammie Halker, Columbus Grove.

July 27
David Emanuel Morales, son of Genrry J. and Herlinda Morales, Leipsic.

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Bluffton Community Preschool, housed in First United Methodist Church, 116 Church St., opens on Sept. 9 for the 2015-16 school year, according to Shelly Matijevich, director.

The preschool is for children ages 3, 4 and 5 and it prepares them for Kindergarten.

A preschool brochure, listing tuition fees and additional information is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.

Class for Monday and Wednesday students begins on Sept. 9. Class for Tuesday and Thursday students begins on Sept. 10. The full schedule takes place the following week.

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Kasandera Knief, a first-year Bluffton University student from Lewistown, Ohio, helps a fifth grader from Bluffton Elementary School with finger placement on the valves of a trumpet during an instrumental “petting zoo” on campus Sept. 8. University students who are members of the Ohio College Music Educators Association provided the outreach to the Bluffton fifth graders, introducing them to instruments they may be interested in learning to play at school.

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Janice R. Reese, 84 died Sept. 5, 2015 at Lima Memorial Hospital.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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