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Joan Swank of Van Wert will soon be driving a Corvette, after her ticket will picked in the Bluffton Hometown Amerifest Corvette raffle drawing on Saturday.

Bluffton Lions Foundation President, Dick Ramseyer, will present the Corvette keys to Joan Swank on Monday, June 28, at 3 p.m. The keys will be handed off at Bud's Chevrolet-Buick, St. Marys.

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Ka...BOOM! Bluffton celebrated the Fourth of July early with an amazing fireworks display on Saturday evening. Here's a view of the evening taken by Jamie Nygaard.

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SATURDAY DUNK TANK SCHEDULE:

1:30-2:30 CORY HUBER ("BHS 2010 graduate and nuisance")

3:00 Justin Crawfis (librarian~ Bluffton Public Library)

3:30 DAVID UTRUP (Bluffton's Comfort Inn)

4-5 Derek Hickey and Dylan Alt (Bluffton HS students)

5:00 DAVE SYCKS (Bluffton School's band teacher 4th grade-HS)

5:30 Dennis Gallant (Bluffton HS '91, attends St. John Mennonite, Rea & Associates in Lima)

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Phil Zimmerly at Common Grounds

Your hometown on Facebook says Lima. Where did you actually grow up? School?

I grew up just outside of Bluffton, just across the county line and in Cory Rawson School district.

I seem to remember you telling some stories about yourself as a kid that suggest you might have been ornery. Elaborate, please?

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The Bluffton High School class of 1948 held a reunion in Bluffton on June 18.

Members attending, seated left to right: Ceacle Potee Shields, Peggy Eckenwiler Augsburger, Esther Lugibihl Brauen, Marilyn Fett Bullock.

Standing left to right: Roger Bell, Mary Schmidt Amstutz, Maurice Garmatter, Wade Oberly, James Ewing, Mary Jane Burkholder Gilliom, Jean Burkholder Reichenbach.

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The Bluffton High School class of 1965 held its 45th reunion in the Bluffton town hall on June 19.

Those attending, front row (l-r) Fred Rodabaugh, Lu Shetler Derstine, Janette Benroth Reineke, Jayne Barnett McGarrity, Susan Lehman Sommer, Kay Motter Ahten, Larry Moser.

2nd row (l-r) Steve Smith, Sam Reineke, Tom Bell, Richard Herr, Larry Amstutz, Dennis Morrison, Tom Harvey, Dave Travis, Don Patterson.

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