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Bluffton High School honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 13, 2009 - 6:46am

Here is Bluffton High School's 1st qtr. honor roll:
9th Grade - all A:
Julie Althaus, Aaron Basinger, Jessica Brockert, Anna Crisp, Adam Crow, Michael Deter, Kyle Huber, Karli Leugers, Jonathan Nisly, Justin Paul, McKenna Reneker, Nathan Risner, Rachel Sehlhorst, Emily Sprague

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7 DNA

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 12, 2009 - 5:57pm
8 DNA

7 DNA is on a white Lexus. At the wheel is Ann Leader and sometimes Don. Okay, help us out, what's the specific meaning of the plate?

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15 minutes with Sarah Schaaf McCombs

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 12, 2009 - 5:15pm
Sarah Schaaf McCombs and her daughter, Carys McCombs

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

What year did you graduate from Bluffton High School?

1995

Share some of your favorite memories of growing up in Bluffton -- favorite teachers, stories about school and/or extra-curricular stuff.

There are so many, I would say some of my early favorite memories were hanging out with Sarah and Heidi Thomsen at the creek across from our house and playing all sorts of imagination games - we had quite the active imaginations.

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Dan Groman talks with the last known WWI vet

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 12, 2009 - 2:46pm
Unloading the Allen County Museum's 1918 Gramm Bernstein Liberty truck at the Lima Refinery restoration is underway.

By Dan Groman

My wife and our two sons had the opportunity this summer to interview Frank Buckles at his home near Charles Town, W.V. Mr. Buckles lives on the extreme eastern panhandle of West Virginia, and at age 108, is the last known U. S. veteran of World War I.

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Bruno's Liquid Alarm Clock

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 12, 2009 - 2:29pm

By Philip A. Murphy

A friend and I developed this recipe a few years before Kim and Pete Suter opened Common Grounds.

It was too expensive to drive to Findlay every time we wanted a coffee drink, so we started looking through the kitchen cupboards and experimenting.
The ratios changed from time to time, but this was the mixture that worked the best.


"Bruno's Liquid Alarm Clock"
Instant Iced Mocha Latte' -- Makes 1 gallon

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A Thanksgiving story

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 12, 2009 - 7:41am

By Tanya Pike

Her stomach growled loudly. She pressed her arms closer to try and hide the sounds. Since her father had given up his steady job and paycheck to start a new church that had no members and no money, the family had cut back drastically. Her new winter coat had come from the Dollar General store.

She sat on the school bus with her feet pushed violently under the seat in front of her. Maybe if she couldn't see the ugly tennis shoes that the popular kids had worn three years ago, no one else could either.

"Nice shoes, loser."

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