Alice DeVier was the psychiatrist, banker, warden, maker of popcorn and funeral director

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Alice DeVier played a significant role with the kids in our North Lawn Avenue-Jackson Street neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s.

These included families with last names of DeVier, Steiner, Wilch, Augsburger, Westrick and Amstutz.

It was a Moderna O12M20A, in case you wondered, and here's how it all came together

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By Fred Steiner
About 60 years ago, more or less, I received a polio vaccine delivered in a sugar cube.

This was administered twice, on different Sundays after church services, in the multi-purpose room of the Bluffton elementary school.

I recall walking from First Methodist Church to the school to stand in line for the vaccine. I can’t remember who gave me the sugar cubes.

And, about four hours ago, I received the first of two covid-19 vaccinations. Jane Agner, nurse at Bluffton Hospital, gave me the vaccine.

He was a man-about-town

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When they get around to listing the 50 most interesting people who ever lived in Bluffton Joe Urich will be on the list.

He’ll be on the list of the 25 most interesting people who lived in Bluffton. There’s a phrase that best describes Joe’s relationship to Bluffton. Joe was a-man-about-town.

You had to figure that you had a good chance to be lying on the ground. The risk was getting thrown.

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Bill and Don Herr talk about Bluffton rodeos - When the rodeo came to town, we got out there and that was it – nobody practiced in advance.

What Rudi Steiner says he found in a Main Street alley in the mid 1950s

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What Rudi Steiner found in a Main Street alley in the 1950s -  The alley, which runs parallel to Main Street and Jackson Street, was another of the great Bluffton alleys of the 1950s.

This was the longest of the alleys I travelled. It ran from behind the high school all the way down to Riley Street. This alley always had really good stuff thrown out by Bluffton merchants.

"In Kindergarten some of us went to Crow's because they were giving away free balloons"

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James Pannabecker remembers: In Kindergarten, some of us went to Crow's because they were giving away free balloons.

When we returned, Miss Groman asked everyone who went to Crow's to stand up. I didn't stand, but went to Crow's. Everyone who stood up received a spanking.

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