By Mary Pannabecker Steiner
What can you buy with a quarter?
A gumball or a handful of M&Ms from a candy machine, air for your bike tires, six minutes of drying time at the local Laundromat, one hour of parking on (some) city streets, or a secondhand mug at a thrift shop.
By Caitlin Nearhood, university intern
Sometimes, weird things happen when students work at the Marbeck Center desk.
“The weirdest thing that’s happened to me was when someone called about retirement communities around Bluffton,” junior Alexi Parsons, one of the students who works the desk and answer the university phone, said. “I didn’t know what to do, so I looked up retirement communities in Bluffton. I know other workers get strange calls, too.”
A Bluffton resident who “has worked tirelessly and mostly behind the scenes to make Bluffton a better place to live,” is the 2013 Bluffton Lions Club citizen of the year.
Richard Ramseyer, long-time community promoter, received the honor by the club this week. He will be recognized at a dinner on April 15 at First Mennonite Church.
Ramseyer’s involvement in Bluffton touches countless aspect of the community. The Illinois native came to Bluffton when he attended and graduated from Bluffton College in the mid-1950s.
Bluffton High School's 15th annual academic letter banquet is at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 18, in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium.
Students must have cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher to receive an academic letter.
Ten BHS seniors will make presentations. They are: Jonah Bourassa, Landon Cluts, Luke Headings, Andrew Hoff, Jonatan Moser, Trent Phillips, Ryan Sprague, Billy Theisen, Stephen Tatarkov and Aaron Wannemacher.
The entire list of students receiving academic letters is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Jason Cox of Bluffton is the new Executive Director of Hilty Home, Pandora, according to Laura Voth, CEO of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio.
Cox has been serving as Executive Director of Oak Grove Healthcare Center, Deshler, for the past three years and has experience working with other long-term care facilities.
