Four candidates seek three openings on the Bluffton school board beginning Jan. 1, 2018. Three incumbents are Brad Fruchey, Wesley Klinger and Ken Lugibihl. Deborah Herr is also seeking a seat.
The Icon asked each candidate the same questions and their unedited responses follow in alphabetical order. In addition, each candidate’s answers may be found in a separate story also on the Icon. Their answers are found on the right column of the home page.
Marilyn “Jeanne” Sumney died Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at 3:04 p.m. Jeanne was born to Madge Shrider on July 26, 1926, in Lima, Ohio. She married Dallas Cheney in 1944. To this marriage their only child, Linda, was born. Following divorce, she married W. Fred Sumney in 1983 and he died in 2004.
Bluffton High School soccer players scored "Player of the Year" honors in both boys' and girls' Northwest Conference categories this week.
Tristan Smucker, a senior, with 8 goals, 4 assists, playing at midfield, and Kayla White, sophomore, with 26 goals and 8 assists, are the players of the year.
For more details on their honors go the Bluffton Icon sports page at BlufftonPirates.com or click here.
Both Bluffton teams won their respective NWC titles.
Bluffton school board approved a five-year school district fiscal forecast presented by Paula Parish, on Oct. 16.
"Schools are required to prepare a five-year forecast two times each year, once in October and then an update in May." she told the Icon. "The forecast serves as a good tool to help monitor the revenues and expenses for the district."
The forecast includes actual figures for fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, through June 30, 2017.
The 2017 annual meeting of the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership (BRWP) will held on at 7 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the Hancock County Ag. Center on County Road 140, Findlay, according to Phil Martin, director.
The program part of the meeting will start at 7:30 a.m. Updates and review of the work of the BRWP in 2017 will be presented.
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The Hospital Strength INDEXTM model aggregates data for 70 indicators organized into eight performance categories.
Bluffton Hospital was recognized by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) as a top 20 hospital for patient satisfaction. Chris Keller, president of Bluffton Hospital and Nicki Keuneke, director of operations recently received the award at the annual Critical Access Hospital Conference.
By Monty Siekerman - Ada Icon
A Hardin County wind turbine project is being placed east of Ada this fall.
• The turbines are gigantic compared to the three at ONU and the one at Ada Schools. The tower of these is 300 feet high, the blade is 150 feet long, thus when a blade is pointing up, the turbine reaches 450 feet from the ground.
Bluffton University will host a fall choral concert featuring the University Chorale and Camerata Singers at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Feast your ears on the sounds of Palestrina, Handel, Debussy and Duruflé as Natalie Mallis, visiting assistant professor of music, will conduct the concert in collaboration with university accompanists Ana Yoder Coulter and Benjamin Crook.
This event is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships.
Wendy Chappell-Dick (center) and the Anabaptist Singers share the hymns of Anabaptist martyrs sung to contemporary tunes during “Grace to you and Peace: Voices of the Martyrs” on Oct. 15 in Bluffton University’s Yoder Recital Hall.
Chappell-Dick adapted more than 20 songs for the performance which also featured the voices of about a dozen Bluffton community members.
