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4th and 5th grade honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 1, 2010 - 4:03pm
Bluffton Elementary School Honor Roll
Jan. 29, 2010

All A Honor Roll
Fifth grade
SYCKS, MEGAN
BUNCH, TREVOR
SCHUMACHER, LEVI
MYERS, ZANE
METZGER, BRICE
DAWSON, CONNOR
BRACY, JASON
THEISEN, SARAH
SIEFER, JAYME
SHRIDER, SABRINA
NESTER, DOUGLAS
ANDREAS, ISAAC

Fourth grade
HARNISH, CHRISTOPHER
HABEGGER, GARRETT
GROMAN, CHRISTIAN
CONRAD, BRADEN
BUSINGER, BRAYTON
DERSTINE, CONNOR

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15 minutes with Lucia Unrau

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 1, 2010 - 3:59pm
Lucia Unrau

Dr. Lucia Unrau is a pianist and professor of music at Bluffton University, and is the keyboard coordinator at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in Traverse City, Mich. She and her husband, Dr. Peter Terry, associate professor of IT and music at Bluffton, are the parents of Dylan, a freshman at Bowling Green State University, Elyse, a Bluffton High School senior, and Kallen, a BHS sophomore.

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Give a $1 and help celebrate library lover's month

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 1, 2010 - 3:39pm

By making a $1 donation, Bluffton Public Library patrons will receive a paper heart to display at the library during the month of February. All donations benefit the library's 2010 "Buck$ for Book$" campaign, which will be used to purchase new reading materials for patrons.

In addition, patrons may enter the "Library Lovers' Date Night Drawing" during the month of February. One patron will win four movie passes to the Shannon Theatre as well as a bag of Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn.

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10 MMH residents blow out birthday candles in February

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 31, 2010 - 6:02pm

Several residents of the Mennonite Memorial Home celebrate birthdays in February.

Those residents are:

2 - Helen Edinger

4 - Lee Lehman

4 - Betty Bash

8 - Margaret Augsburger

9 - Ken Bordner

10 - Ruth Mary Kain

12 - Mary Ellen Reichenbach

14 - Gene Basinger

14 - Vera Basinger

24 - Esther McKitrick

New residents to MMH are:

Virginia Spillman

Harry Burkholder

Robert Lamb

Violet Moser

Betty Steiner

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Icon now offers Bluffton income tax forms

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 31, 2010 - 3:59pm

The Bluffton Icon now offers a helpful service for persons needing copies of the Bluffton income tax form. In cooperating with the Village of Bluffton, the Bluffton tax forms may be downloaded from The Icon.

To download copies of the form, simply go to the Icon home page. The files are available on the right column just above the "More Inside" bar.

Any resident of Bluffton 16 years or older is required to file a return with the tax office, (income becomes taxable at age 16). Bluffton School District tax is not filed or remitted through the Village of Bluffton tax office.

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Game review: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 31, 2010 - 3:46pm

TEH. BEST. GAMES. EVAR.
By Andr'e Swartley

Issue #10
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Developer: Bioware
Publisher: Lucasarts
Platform: Mac, PC, Xbox
Rating: T for Teen

It's difficult to explain to someone who didn't live through the 1980s just how quickly and completely Star Wars saturated our culture during that decade. All of my friends, male and female, had Star Wars action figures, lunch boxes, breakfast cereal, bed sheets, underpants, etc.

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