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Dave Dobradenka is the Bluffton popcorn-eating champion of 2010. Dave won the Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn eating contest during Shirley's customer appreciation event on Nov. 6.

Dave managed to down one tub and one handful of popcorn in five minutes, beating out seven other contestants, according to Pete Suter of Shirley's.

With Dave are his team of supporters, Jessica Dobradenka, Debbie Wise, Dave, Tammy Cottle, Wynter Wise and Kortney Cottle.

Dave wins a one-year supply of popcorn from Shirley's.

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Mennonite Home Health celebrates 15 years in Bluffton this fall.

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Jim Barnett

Jim Barnett (BHS Class of 1969) is now a member of ADK46R, the select club for mountaineers who have scaled all of the 46 Adirondack Mountain peaks over 4,000 feet high. The club was started in the early 1920s after Robert and George Marshall published a book "The High Peaks of the Adirondacks" recounting their climbs. The pair believed that all the peaks they documented were 4,000 feet and over, but subsequent geological surveys have shown that 4 of the mountains are slightly less. The highest peak of the 46 is Mt. Marcy which is 5,344 feet.

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Dining in the Ropp Hall basement in the 1930s
Note: Here's a brief history of one of the iconic buildings on the Bluffton University campus.

By Ariel Shuey, Bluffton Icon intern
Built in 1914 on the site of a hog farm and slaughterhouse, Ropp Hall at Bluffton University is now a home to more than 200 female students. The original four story brick building still stands to this day, although many changes have been made.

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A discussion of Edith Wharton's book "Summer" will take place in the family room of Maple Crest Senior Living Village on Monday, Nov. 22, at 2:30 p.m. Copies of the book are available at Bluffton Public Library.

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Members of American Legion Post 382, Bluffton, toured the United States Air Force Museum on Oct. 12.

Back row Tom Craig, Morris Groman, Dennis Morrison, Bob Amstutz, Ted Diller, Tom Benroth,

2nd row Sam Reineke, Bob Stratton, Dave Reichenbach, Norm Reichenbach, Harley Steiner, Wade Oberly.

Front row Bob Town, Darrell Yoder, John Wagner, Dale Huber, Wayne Amstutz.

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