The Bluffton Icon celebrated its first anniversary with a party at Common Grounds on Sept. 22. Over 75 persons attended. The Icon enters its second year as Bluffton's free Internet news provider with over 130,000 views to its credit.
Guess who's throwing a first anniversary party... and it is today.
The Bluffton Icon, Bluffton's free on-line news source, celebrates its first anniversary with a party at Common Grounds.The event, open to the public, is from 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22, the actually anniversary date that the website went live in 2009.
Enjoy the last day of summer. During the final week of summer the high temperatures were stuck in the 80s and the lows in the 50s. Here are the highs and low for Sept. 14 to 20, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
The Bluffton High School Class of 1947 held a reunion in the town hall on Saturday noon, Sept. 18. Twenty class members were present, plus spouses and friends.
First row: Sara Mae (Oberly) Beery, Colleen (Goodman) Hight, Peggy (Martin) Hursey, Betty (Bixel) Jeschke, Wanda (Tschiegg) Geiger, Eleanor (Linden) Thurston, Jean Anne (Burcky) Burkholder.
Second row: Wanda (Lehman) Lyman, Sara Jane (Huser) Amstutz, Catherine (Bohn) Hartman, Helen (Burkholder) Brooks, Imogene (Wenger) Althaus, Alice Ruth (Pannabecker) Ramseyer, Joan (Burkholder) Dailey.
Despite sweeping the doubles matches, the Bluffton High School girls tennis team dropped a close 3-2 match to Celina here Tuesday.
Ashlin Gable and Emily Sprague continued their winning ways at No. 1 doubles, while Kristi Geiser and Liz Diller captured a long two-setter for the other Pirate points.
Shannon Koch lost a marathon match at No. 1 singles, while Amanda Solmonson and Rachel Sehlhorst also lost singles matches.