October 2017

October 30, 2017

BLUFFTON, Ohio - Junior Erin Weisgarber (Bolivar/Tuscarawas Valley) has been named the Heartland Conference Player of the Week after leading the Beavers to a 3-0 mark, including a pair of HCAC victories.

The dynamic signal caller had 19 kills against just 1 error for a .486 hitting percentage while doling out 107 assists (10.7 APG). Weisgarber also tallied 38 digs and five total blocks for the week.

Weisgarber is up to #3 all-time with 3,313 career assists, trailing just Shauna Rowland (3,695) and Jayne Miller (4,275).

Nov. 2-4 in Ramseyer Auditorium

Written in the early 1950s and staged in 1959 for the first time at Bluffton, “The Crucible” will return to campus Nov. 2-5 as the 2017 fall play.

This year they seem to hang around longer than usual

It might as well be November when Bluffton residents are usually in the midst of serious leaf raking. Not so, this year. The leaves seem to want to hang around longer than usual.

Meanwhile the village crew is set up to take leaves from Bluffton curbs. Here's the the rules from the village:

• Leaf piles will not be picked up if they contain any grass, stickets, yard waste or trash.
• Please rake leaves to the curb in long, narrow rows.
• Village crews will pick up leaves once each week.

On Sunday, Nov. 5, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jenera, will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in both the 8 and 10:30 a.m. services. 

The students from Trinity Lutheran School and the Choir will sing “Christ is our Cornerstone.”    More information is available at tlcjenera.org or at 419-326-4402 or 419-302-5271.  
 

Yes, it's Bluffton. This Lake Erie and Western freight is loaded with Bluffton stone. It sits on a siding at the National Quarry at Jefferson Street. The year is 1910 or 1911.

Frank McElroy, a stone company employee, standing on one of the cars of stone.

This is one of many photos published in "The Bluffton We Never Knew," photographs from Bluffton's first half century, 1861-1911. The book is being released by the Bluffton Icon.

The Icon found SHELB 13 on a red and white 2013 Shelby in the Citizens National Bank parking lot,

During visit from a girl in a wheelchair

Photos by Jamie Nygaard

Bluffton Kindergarteners learned first-hand about what it means to have a disability and how they can help and talk to people about their disabilities. 

Devin Wolfe, a 14-year-old girl from Lima, born with Spina Bifida, visited last week with Bluffton Kindergarteners. Her visit was through the Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities.

What’s it like being in a wheelchair, the students wondered during a question time.

Served on Cory-Rawson school board for eight years

James Edward Green, 89, of Bluffton died at 1:40 p.m., Oct. 28, 2017, at the Mennonite Memorial Home.

Jim was born on the family farm where he grew up in Putnam County on Aug. 3, 1928, to the late Milford and Anna Belle (Clark) Green. He graduated from Mt. Cory High School in 1946 and attended Bowling Green State University. On Sept. 12, 1948 he married Marilyn Irene Marquart.

October 28, 2017
By: Lynsey Trusty, sports information assistant

Earlham Stats  I  Illinois Tech Stats

October 28, 2017

Men's Results  I  Women's Results

NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. - The Bluffton University harriers went in to the HCAC cross country championships with many goals, both individually as well as collectively as teams. Many were realized, a few even greatly exceeded during two hotly contested championship races. 

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