New Leaf Landscape and Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235, Ada, has Mother's Day gift ideas for customers. It also takes phone orders and offers curb side service.
The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference will host a live Zoom session with former professional sports executive turned Mental Health Advocate, Eric Kussin on Tuesday, May 5, from 6-8 p.m. as a part of NCAA Division III Mental Health Awareness week and the HCAC SAAC's Mental Health Awareness Campaign Initiative.
The event is free and open to all the members of the NCAA Division III Community. To join in the call, please click here.
Here's today's installment of the Bluffton High School Class of 2020 Senior Spotlight. Each weekday until the end of May the Icon will feature photos and future plans for four BHS seniors. This is our second installment in the series. Students will be featured in a four-set random order.
The following letter is from Greg Denecker, Bluffton school superintendent.
Dear Parents and Students -
I write this letter to you with a great deal of emotion. As the parent of a Senior, I know full-well the disappointment that you are feeling, as COVID-19 has disrupted so many of the events and celebrations we had envisioned enjoying with our children as they mark this milestone of completing their K-12 education.
Like you, I am working to keep things in perspective, and I remain grateful for my family for our Bluffton community.
Bluff’ ton eləˈment(ə)r ˈtēCHər – Bluffton elementary teacher (noun) – a person who teaches in Bluffton schools and is described by students as kind, smart, funny, really funny, cool, good teacher, hard-working, nice, great, amazing, awesome, good at explaining things, and good at teaching.
Winning entries are posted at the bottom of this story.
If Bluffton elementary teachers were listed in the dictionary, the words above would help describe them.
In honor of the lives of those killed and injured and those whose lives were forever altered by the tragedy of May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, Governor DeWine ordered that all United States and Ohio flags be flown at half-staff upon all state-owned buildings throughout the state and at the Ohio Statehouse, Vern Riffe Center, and Rhodes Tower, at 12:24 p.m, until sunset.
Treva Margaret Helena (Marquart) Shafer, 94, a resident of Bluffton, Ohio, and died on May 4, 2020, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
Treva was born on June 14, 1925, near Bluffton to the late Albert and Emma Marquart. On Oct. 20, 1946, she married Wayne Shafer and he preceded her in death on Dec. 5, 2019, after 73 years of marriage.
BHS CLASS OF 1950 - celebrating its 70th graduation year – Class members as first graders in the 1938-39 school.
Front for left, unidentified, unidentified, Sara Badertscher, Rosella Moser, Jane Damon, Marilyn Amstutz, Peggy Young and Donald Schumacher.
Second row from left, Elwood Brauen, Donald Burkholder, unidentified, Roger Lehman, Carolyn Matter, Richard Steiner, Josephine Augsburger, Edgar Wenger and Micky unidentified.
