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A fishing story you can believe

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2010 - 4:39pm
Jacob Garmatter catches number 101

In celebration of the 2010 centennial year of the Boy Scouts of America, Bluffton Boy Scout Troop #256 sponsored tag trout #100 during the Bluffton Sportmen's Club Trout Derby. The trout was caught by Jacob Garmatter of Bluffton (left). Assistant Scoutmaster Darrell Groman (right) presented Jacob with an official BSA 100th anniversary commemorative pocket knife with holographic images of Cub Scout and Boy Scout rank badges.

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Container growing topic of May 11 garden club meeting

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2010 - 4:31pm

The Gardener~Ac^a'not^a"cs of the Bluffton Pandora Area will hold a program on Container Growing. The speaker will be from Indian Trails. He will include growing both flowers and vegetables in a variety of pot sizes and containers.

The meeting is from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, in the Bluffton Public Library large conference room in the lower level. The meeting is open to the public. All visitors are welcome.

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Betty E. Hilty 1930 - 2010

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2010 - 4:26pm

Betty E. Hilty, 80, of Grand Rapids, Ohio, and formerly Bluffton, died at 6:25 a.m., May 7, 2010, at the Grand Rapids Care Center, Grand Rapids, Ohio.

She was born April 30, 1930, to Dwight and Elizabeth Garmatter Deeds in Rawson. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Hilty was a graduate of Bluffton High School and Bliss Business College, Columbus.

Survivors are sons, Jim (Vicky), Grand Rapids, John, Urbana, Ill., and Josephy, Ft. Myers, Fla. Also surviving is a granddaughter, Angela Hilty and a sister Bonnie Pfohl, Sarasota, Fla.

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Obituaries
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Gertrude "Trudy" Koerner 1923 - 2010

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 7, 2010 - 4:18pm
Gertrude "Trudy" Koerner

Gertrude F. ~Ac^a'notA"Trudy~Ac^a'not^A

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They took us out to the ball game

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 6, 2010 - 7:58pm

You've never witnessed a parade for this event in Bluffton. The 2010 Bluffton High School baseball team captured the school's first-ever Northwest Conference baseball championship on May 6. Such a prize deserved several rides around town. Other Pirate teams have come close, but this team was the first ever to achieve the title.

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The Stratton Greenhouse story: 61 years in our community

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 6, 2010 - 6:16pm

NOTE: The Icon is happy to publish this account by Steve Stratton. In it, he shares the 61-year history of Stratton Greenhouse. Click here to view photos.

By Steve Stratton

As Dad, Jim Stratton, got back from WWII (spending 3 years in the South Pacific on a supply ship ' the USS Calamares' delivering and receiving to ports in the Philippines, Australia, China, and others as a 18 year old) he went back to Westinghouse in Lima to work.

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Historical Bluffton
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