By Jake Dowling, Ada Icon summer intern Note: This story was originally posted in The Ada Icon. Julie Brewer is known by several persons in the Bluffton community.
It is the summer of 2010. Julie Brewer just graduated from Ohio Northern University with a degree in art education. She had friends, a good life, but she was not ready to jump right into her career, she wanted to explore.
Racheal Lewis keeps Bluffton string players in shade during the summer months. She offers six weekly string sessions for her students between early July and mid-July.
This summer's classes include separate ones for beinngers, junior high, sixth grade, fifth grade, high school and any string player in a class she calls "Fiddling."
The Icon visited her sixth grade rehearsal earlier this month. Take a look.
On July 3 members from the Bluffton American Legion Post cleaned up storm debris at the Steinmetz residence on South Main Street. The trees that fell where from the home of Melvena Lewis. Her husband " Dutch" was a WWII veteran. Members from the post who assisted were Dennis Morrison, Tom Benroth, Tom Craig, Bob Amstutz and Sam Reineke. Bob Amstutz is in this photo.
Bluffton resident Dr. J.D. Yoder, professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio Northern University, along with Jeffery West, BSME'12, Dr. Eric Baumgartner, dean of the College of Engineering, and Drs. Mathias Perrollaz, Michael Seelinger, and Matthew Robinson of the University of Notre Dame, are authors of the paper titled "Experiments comparing precision of stereo-vision approaches for control of an industrial manipulator."
Yoder presented the work at the 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics June 17-21, 2012, at Quebec City, Canada.
Bluffton American Legion Post 382 held a cookout and installation ceremony of post officers at the Buckeye Park Shelteron June 18.
Forty persons attended, according to Dennis Morrison, PR officer.
Following the picnic the new officers were sworn in by 2nd District Commander Tom Faller from Post 387, Minster.
Story and photo by Jake Dowling, Icon summer intern
Heard of the saying, 'there's no place like home?' For Gordon Diller, funeral director of Chiles-Laman Funeral Home, Bluffton, there is no better place for a home than a funeral home.
"It has always been nice to work here," Diller said. "My home is upstairs and so I have always been able to raise my family in a funeral home."
Funeral homes that serve as a home are not as common as they used to be, but for Diller, that has meant the world to him.
