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Lima mayor to Bluffton grads: Your education’s just beginning

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2014 - 5:44pm

For many college students, graduation means that life in the “real world” is beginning and “studying is over,” the mayor of Lima said at Bluffton University’s commencement ceremony May 4.

“I understand this perspective because I lived it,” added David Berger, noting that he skipped two graduation ceremonies—at the undergraduate and graduate levels—because they weren’t important and he didn’t have time for them. “I was done studying,” he recalled. “I needed to make money, to begin to pay my school debt.”

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Bluffton University
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Ever wonder how the Et Cetera Shop started? Here's the answer

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2014 - 5:38pm

Former Bluffton resident Lois Kreider spoke during the Et Cetera Shop's 40th anniversary volunteer banquet in late April. Here are her remarks, which include the retelling of how the Et Cetera Shop in downtown Bluffton came to be. 

By Lois Kreider

Can it be—40 years? 

But to recall how it all began, we need to go back even farther than 40 years.

In 1961 our family spent a year in Akron, Pa . Robert was on sabbatical and traveling to set up the Teachers Abroad Program (TAP). I was there with five children—age six months to 4th grade.

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Business
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Hey, a llama's on Main Street!

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2014 - 5:23pm

Hey, that's a llama, right on Main Street! During Saturday's Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce 43rd annual arts and crafts show you'll have a chance to talk with a llama or two. Llamas from Hard Rock Llama, rural Ada, owned by the Gerkin family, are always an arts show favorite. The exhibit will be on Vine Street.

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Phil Yost was a 1968 Bluffton High School graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2014 - 5:22pm

Phil Yost, 63, Bluffton native and Bluffton High School graduate, died at his California home on April 18, 2014. He was a former San Jose Mercury News editorial writer.

The following obituary was posted on the Mercury News.

 

Phil Yost was a gentle and decent man, a writer with an ethical compass that belied the stereotype of the cynical journalist. He was known for an unerring sense of fairness, a willingness to consider an argument from another side.

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Obituaries
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40 seasons ago - Bluffton HS Varsity B

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2014 - 1:44pm

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Forty sports season ago here were members of the Bluffton High School "might varsity B." 

Front row from left, Rob Ernsberger, Tony Gratz, Dave Simons, Tim King, Jeff Boehr, Mike Kleman, George Brooks, Jeff Hauenstein, Roger Watkins, Phil McCafferty.

Row two, from left, Max McCafferty, Bruce Frick, Fred Wiess, Dave Stratton, Joel Dunifon, Brett Stratton, Delmer Nuzum, Tim Falk, Charles Sehlhorst.

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Historical Bluffton
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It must be May

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2014 - 8:24am

Temperatures in the 60s as highs and 40s as daily lows. It must be May. Here's the weather summary for the first five days of May from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

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Regional news
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