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Letter: Vote for player of the week

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 12, 2010 - 5:55am

Wondering if Icon supporters could help out Bluffton University be number one in this voting event?

A play from the Bluffton University volleyball team is part of a play of the week contest... the following is on the University's website which fully explains this. How neat would it be if Bluffton could be this week's winner. This week's voting is over on Wednesday. Bluffton's play is Play #1 on the website.
Vote for Bluffton in AVCA Play of the Week

October 7, 2010

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Joanne N: Giant fig trees spread wide along the winding paths

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 12, 2010 - 5:53am

By Joanne Niswander

Sydney, Australia, October 11, 2000

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'm ready to give Sydney close to a 10 (for a city, that is). My daughter Lee and I arrived here 6 days ago, on a lovely sunny spring day in Australia. We promptly treated ourselves to some of the most beautiful sights of this city that has one of the most beautiful harbors in the world.

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Columbus Grove student crowned Bluffton University homecoming queen

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 12, 2010 - 5:20am
Bluffton University^aEURTMs 2010 Homecoming court were from left sophomore couple Lisa Baglien and Zeke Tracy, junior couple Bethany Bowman and Jake Atkins, senior attendants Libby Brinkman and Kenny Miller, Queen Ashtyn Shafer, King Cody Litwiller and senior attendants Jen Krehbiel and Tim Nofziger.

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Seniors Cody Litwiller of Hopedale, Ill., and Ashtyn Shafer of Columbus Grove, were crowned Bluffton University's Homecoming king and queen before the annual Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 9.

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Bluffton University
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We'll take highs in the 80s

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 12, 2010 - 5:09am

The thermometer's high is stuck on the 80s and the low somewhere in the 50s for the past three days. Here's the past seven day weather report from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Date High Low Prec

Oct. 5 66 44

Oct. 6 73 37

Oct. 7 75 45

Oct. 8 81 39

Oct. 9 85 50

Oct. 10 89 54

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Regional news
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Water, water everywhere

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 11, 2010 - 9:39pm

Jan Basinger creates a flood on Bentley and Riley as he flushes the fire hydrant on that corner. The village flushes its hydrants each fall and spring. There are over 250 hydrants in the village.

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Council views 2011 budget on Oct. 25

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 11, 2010 - 9:24pm

Bluffton council's finance committee met on Oct. 4 as did the personnel committee. The finance committee hopes to bring a 2011 budget to the Oct. 25 council session. The personnel committee is studying rates of pay ranges for 2011. It will bring a recommendation to council soon.

Council approved $330,310 in non-payroll bills on Oct. 11. The bills are an attachment to this story and may be viewed by opening the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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