Mary Bixel Waltner

Hey, I never knew your middle name. Where did you go to college?
I graduated in 1968 from Bluffton High School and had no idea what I wanted for my life I just knew I needed to get out of Bluffton. I had heard about Freeman Jr. College through a student of my father's at BC and decided that's where I wanted to go. I majored in music and Tim, my husband, who I met there, with a general education degree. Our intent was to finish college but, unfortunately it never happened.

Several Bluffton junior high students earned superiors and excellents at the March 20 solo and ensemble contact. Results follow:
Superiors (I ratings)
Julian Harnish, piano
Julian Harnish, oboe
Lauren Yost, piano
Lauren Yost, clarinet
Emily Sycks, piano
Andrew Hoff, baritone
Rachel Woodruff, piano
Emily Sycks, violin
Jacob Bishop, violin
Kyle Kahle, violin
Mouret String Quintet (Kyle Kahle, Rachel Woodruff, Pamela Fischbach, Landon Cluts, John McCall)

Chelsea Ross, a sophomore at Bluffton High School, was recently invited to attend at expo/convention in Dallas, Texas. The event is for professional agents seeking modeling and acting talent.

Ross will attend the event as she has recently graduated from John Casablancas, Cincinnati. There she took classes in modeling, runway and acting.

She has been involved in several photo modeling shoots. She is currently welcoming local sponsorships to enable her to attend the expo in Dallas. She is also selling candy bars as a fund raiser.

Gregory Reichenbach

Gregory S. Reichenbach, Bluffton attorney, has announced that he is focusing his practice on representing persons who have been harmed by unfair, deceptive acts and other illegal business practices.

With an office in Bluffton, he is able to take appropriate cases from west central Ohio and beyond.

Reichenbach said that his practices has three main areas. These are:

Marc Augsburger

What year did you graduate from Bluffton High School?
1985

Let's make a long story short, what are you doing now and how do you get to Ida Grove, Iowa?

I'm the CEO of Horn Memorial Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital (just like Bluffton Community Hospital) in northwestern Iowa. I worked as an RN for many years in a number of hospitals in Ohio then in Saginaw, Michigan. After earning my MBA, I worked for 3.5 years as the VP of Operations for Caro Community Hospital in Caro, Michigan.

Jean Muller (center) receives a plaque for being named Bluffton Lions Club citizen of the year for 2009. Richard Ramseyer (left) president of the club, and Richard Boehr (right) club member presented the plaque to Muller. This year's recipient has play a major role in the industrial development of the community, including bring DTR Industries to Bluffton.

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