Advice to high school students: "Don't be afraid to try new things"

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Interviewed by Derek Swartzlander
15 Minutes with Amanda Speicher

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The Bluffton Boys & Girls/Cloverbud 4H Club elected officers for 2021. The officers follow:
• Brooklynn Bible - President
• Joe Spencer - Vice-President
• Audra Snyder - Secretary
• Tanner Bott - Treasurer
• Jake Spencer - Safety Officer
• Landin Bible - Health Officer
• Brooklyn Nance - Historian/ Reporter
• Brookie Bible - Activities Officer

Area 4-H clubs may send their club announcements to: [email protected]

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Corrinne Boehr celebrates her 90th birthday on Tuesday, March 23. Friends are invited to mail her a birthday card to: 
Corrinne Boehr
Willow Ridge/Betty House
Willow Ridge Dr.
Bluffton, OH 45817

Discussion centers on attention-getting videos and window display - but you are in for a lot more

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This Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs edition of “Fifteen Minutes With...” is a video installment with Chrissy Lugibihl and Janette Reinke of the Et Cetera Shop. Watch the video at the bottom of this story.

The BCE asked for tips on producing attention-getting videos and window displays, as well as for background information on the thrift shop located at 327 N. Main St., phone (419) 358-4201.

Meet this year's junior high pi champions - Mackay and June

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At some point in your school mathematics journey you discovered that mysterious constant called “Pi.”

It’s the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter and most commonly known by the number 3.14.

And, with March 14 (third month, 14th day of the year) proclaimed as National Pi Day, math teachers use it as a teaching tool.

Here’s how Dina Tadena, Bluffton seventh grade math teacher uses the day.

You've probably met her at Et Cetera, where she volunteers; or at BFR where she walks

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Note: June Fields, of 4495 N. Phillips Road, Harrod, provided the Icon with her journey as a double organ recipient. April is Donate Life Month. June encourages families to have a talk about organ donation. Several questions and answers about this subject are at the bottom of the feature.

By June Fields
My name is June Fields and I live near Bluffton and come into town often to shop, bank, eat or volunteer at the Et Cetera Shop, so you may have seen me out and about. 

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