The winner of The Bluffton Icon's Week 10 College Football Contest is James Crawfis. James and Duane Bollenbacher both accumulated 9 points this week. James was declared the winner by virtue of the 1st tie-breaker.
Other contestants:
8 points - Dan Smith, Dave Moser, Jim Dillman and Mike Burris.
7 points - Andy Borgelt, Jared Lehman, Joyce Suter, Lyle Arnold and Nancy Armour.
6 points - Becky Warren and Philip Keeler.
5 points - Andy Althuas and Joe Suter.
4 points - Mark Sommers.

A discussion of Tatiana de Rosnay's book "Sarah's Key" will take place in the family room of Maple Crest Senior Living Village on Monday, Nov. 28, at 2:30 p.m. Maple Crest Senior Living Village is located at 700 Maple Crest Ct., Bluffton.

Copies of the book may be requested at Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main St., Bluffton.

Larry Hoffman

Larry Hoffman, CFO at The First National Bank of Pandora, recently graduated from the 2011 OBL Bank Management School sponsored by the Ohio Bankers League.

Hoffman was one of 28 bankers who completed the intensive one-week program in September.

Bluffton University's Loaded Baked Potato soup was the diner's choice at the Nov. 4 Maple Crest Senior Living Village soup cook-off.

Over 150 persons samples soups from seven Bluffton area restaurants and then voted on their favorites.

The top three vote-getters were:

1 - Bluffton University's Loaded Baked Potato soup
2 - Rossilli's (of Findlay) Corn and Crab chowder
3 - The Dough Hook's chili soup

Video and story by Jordan Howe, Bluffton Icon intern

It's your first time on the Bluffton University campus. You are in Marbeck Center and can't find Founders Hall. What do you do? You ask the student working the Marbeck front desk.

What's it like directing traffic, answering questions, helping with the mail and answering the campus phone? Senior Abby Clark gives some insight on what happens behind the Marbeck front desk, and her work experiences at Bluffton.

Hannah Chappell-Dick trains on the Bluffton University track

Hannah Chappell-Dick remembers with clarity the first race she competed in. It was a half-mile race, which she thought meant she would run down the field and back. She laughed when she remembers learning it was actually a little further than that. Running at the front of the pack, her time was 3:58 and she placed sixth overall - boys and girls included.

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