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BHS names September student of the month

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on September 29, 2015 - 9:40pm

The student for the month of September at Bluffton High School is Nicole Edelbrock who is the daughter of Brian and Teresa Edelbrock of Bluffton. Nicole is a senior this year and carries a 4.000 GPA.

Nicole is a member of the Bluffton Flag Corps team where they took 2nd place at the Allen County fair competition this year as a full group and as feature flags. She is in Art Club and is a member of the Buccaneer Yearbook committee.

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Bulletin library October events

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on September 29, 2015 - 9:38pm

As a part of Banned Book Week (Sept. 27 through Oct.3), Bluffton Public Library will provide a free showing of the movie A Wrinkle in Time on October 1 at 3:30pm. This film is rated PG and will run until approximately 5:45pm. Celebrate your right to read!

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Bluffton Public Library
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Ready to carve

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 29, 2015 - 6:36pm

Tom Suter adds a pumpkin to the wagon. The pumpkin patch at Suter's Produce on Road R is overflowing with the popular orange squash. Nearly 15 different pumpkin varieties are available this fall.

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Bluffton's Fall Festival makes you feel good about living in a small town

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 29, 2015 - 5:42pm

The weather was perfect and the crowds huge. You couldn't ask for more. Bluffton unrolled its red carpet to visitors on Saturday. This year's Bluffton's Fall Festival was a big hit.

Events took place at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton Family Recreation, Maple Crest, Bluffton Hospital, Farmers' Market downtown and the Swiss Community homestead.

With so many photo possibilities, the Icon will spread out its coverage of the weekend.

Below are photos from:
• Mennonite Memorial Home
• Bluffton Family Recreation
• Bluffton Hospital

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Suter's Produce offers a Maze of fall features

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 29, 2015 - 5:20pm

Pirate Trails and Treasures II will keep corn maze fans busy this month. 

The maze, at Suter’s Produce, 12200 Pandora Road, opened in mid-September and continues until its last day on Oct. 31.

Suter’s offers lots more than their traditional corn maze.

Other features include a hayride, corn cannons, giant tube slide, human hamster wheels, pumpkins, cider press and apples.

Here are the details -

Maze hours:
Saturdays and Sundays 1 to 8 p.m.
(Last admission at 7 p.m.)

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Events
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Cold starting perennials topic of Oct. 6 gardener meeting

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 29, 2015 - 4:37pm

The Gardners of the Bluffton Pandora Area will meet at 6:30 p.m, Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Bluffton Public Library meeting room.

Ann Brickner of the Perennial Plant Peddler will discuss how to cold start perennials.

The current Edelweiss News of the club is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

 

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