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Joanne Niswander: Discovering Motter Park

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 1:06pm

By Joanne Niswander

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. My friend Mary and I had just left another friend's home where we had enjoyed lunch together. One of our table conversations had been about the spiffy new "Motter Metro Park" sign that had recently appeared along Grove Road, just across from Maple Grove Cemetery.

None of us had remembered seeing anything in the news about it. What was this new park in our midst?

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RSVP by Wednesday to attend Friday's free chamber breakfast

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 5:29am

The first free Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting of 2010-11 is at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 10, in the third floor of the town hall. Jerry Lewis, owner of the Bluffton McDonald's Restaurant, is the speaker.

Other agenda items include:

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Dash for Cache - second coordinate now available

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 6, 2010 - 5:17am

Care to go geocaching? Here's the second (and the first) coordinates in The Icon Dash for Cache contest. Prizes are in each cache. There are six in all. Click here for more background on this contest. In the meantime, here are the first two cache coordinates.

COORDINATE NUMBER 1 - RELEASED SEPT. 4
"Bluffton's New View"

Micro Difficulty: 1/5 Terrain: 1/5

Located along the main drag.

Stop in to see the "new face in town."

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A gourd with an angelic personality

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 5, 2010 - 8:59pm

Jodi Brauen holds an angel gourd. She and her husband, Don, will hold an open house offering hundreds of decorative gourds that they have created just in time for several fall holidays. Their open house is Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19, at their 7140 Tom Fett Road residence. To view other photos of their gourd creations click here.

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Confessions of a retired BHS marching band trombonist

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 5, 2010 - 6:21pm

By Fred Steiner, one-time trombone player in the BHS marching band

There I was, minding my own business, on the goal line at Harmon Field on Friday night.

Suddenly the drum major ("field commander" is not in my vocabulary) blasted three of four times on the whistle. The next thing I knew I was marching out on the field with the BHS marching band.

It was my first venture on the field in 43 football seasons. That's so long ago that Elida, Ottawa-Glandorf and Bath were on the schedule the last time I looked.

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Gable/Sprague remained undefeated at Findlay

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 5, 2010 - 5:23pm

Recent tennis results for the BHS girls netters show a close loss at Napoleon and three doubles teams placing at the Fostoria Invitational (at Findlay) Jess Hunter, Liz Diller and Rachel Sehlhorst lost singles matches at Napoleon, while the doubles teams of Ashlin Gable/Emily Sprague and Kristi Geiser/Shannon Koch were victorious.

Gable/Sprague remained undefeated at Findlay, taking the No. 1 doubles title, while the doubles teams of Geiser/Koch and Hunter/Diller each placed third.

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