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Want a light show in your yard this holiday season? If so, help is on the way!

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 20, 2010 - 6:01pm

It's the first week of spring, but let's think about Christmas for a moment.

You've watched the Gift of Giving light show extravaganza set up across from Harmon Field for the past two holiday seasons. Ropp Triplett, the mastermind behind the project, thinks there could be several more of those light shows, but on smaller scales, scattered around Bluffton for the 2010 holiday season.

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Derek Dukes bowls one shy of you-know-what

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 20, 2010 - 5:21pm

Belles & Beaux
Scores bowled on: Mar.14
Men's High Game
John Dailey 280
Nick Burden 237
Jon Burden 237
Dan Dailey 229

Women's High Game
Steph Moore 223
Steph Moore 202
Ruth Everett 190
Deb Green 183

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Adams Bridge on a warm afternoon

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 19, 2010 - 10:03pm
Adams Bridge on a warm afternoon

Isn't it amazing what one day of warm weather and sunshine does to the human spirit. Friday brought out the sunbathers, convertibles, motorbikes, rollerbladers and hand-holders. This scene from Adams Bridge near Ropp Hall says it all about Friday's weather.

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Did this one make it to Pike's Peak?

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 19, 2010 - 5:58pm
79 ZP

You know, this one sounds strange, but Zebulon Pike, for whom Pike's Peak is named, was born in 1778. Could it be his plate? You got a better idea?

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Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1959

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 19, 2010 - 5:39pm
Main Street Bluffton 1960

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Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1959 looked like this. On the west side of Main Street to Church Street is C.F. Niswander and Son farm implements, Urich's IGA, the Charles Co., Crow's 5 and 10, and Citizens National Bank.

On the east side is the Carma Theater, The Horseshoe Grill and Niswander's Newstand.

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Historical Bluffton
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Zen and the art of cleaning house

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 19, 2010 - 4:28pm

I'm supposed to be cleaning. But hey, what's-his-name said he was going to clean and then disappeared to the basement. Which means that he's not cleaning.

But I will. Really. I have this thing about cleaning on Friday nights. This started long ago when we were first married, living in the palatial duplex that overlooked the railroad tracks. That was one heck of an apartment and no amount of cleaning ever really produced anything other than what it was. An ugly apartment with a view of every train that passed through town.

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