By Delano Whidbee
Saturday night Bluffton Pirates welcomed Western Reserve Academy to Harmon Field. After a 1-7 start Bluffton earned a big win - with suprising ease - with unified team effort against Western Reserve who was 5-1 before this game. BHS won 61-13.
Western Reserve Academy showed that could run the ball early in the 1st quarter with a 4 yard touchdown run. Point after kick was good 7-0 Western Reserve lead.
Former Bluffton resident, David Gillett, 78, died on Oct. 16, 2014. He was the previous owner of Gillett's Bakery on North Main Street Bluffton. Services are at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Carmel Lutheran Church, Carmel, Ind., Arrangements are handled by Indiana Funeral Care and Crematory.
Hundreds of potential Thanksgiving pumpkin pies and Halloween jack-o-lanterns lie awaiting to be picked in the Suter Produce pumpkin patch on Road R between Bluffton and Pandora.
The winner of Week 8 of The Icon Football Contest is Ruth Johnson. Four contestants correctly picked all 10 games this week, but Ruth was declared the winner by correctly predicting Bluffton to win by 19 or more points.
Other contestants:
10 correct - Dale Badertscher, Landyn Fleharty and Mark Delisle.