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Bluffton, Beaverdam-Richland Township and Jenera fire and EMS were called to what appeared to be a woods fire at approximately 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11. The fire was just off Township Road 51 north of Lincoln Highway. Click for a video taken from Township Road 51.

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Donald Benjamin Stark, 82, passed away November 10, 2014, at 11:27 p.m. at his residence.  Donald was born January 11, 1932 in Huron, OH, to the late Daniel and Alice (Hopkins) Stark.  On August 14, 1954 he married Marilyn Malott Stark and she survives.

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Dr. Stanley Hauerwas suggests that the apostles’ request for Paul to remember the poor should be at the heart of Christian living.

“Care for the poor was thought by Paul to be a necessary hallmark of the corporate life of Jesus’ followers,” said Hauerwas, theological ethics chair at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in a Nov. 10 address at Bluffton University.

Hauerwas, a professor emeritus at Duke University Divinity School and named as “America’s Best Theologian” by Time magazine in 2001, delivered the annual Keeney Peace Lecture at Bluffton.

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A Celebration of Life service for Amy L. Dunbar who passed away October 30, 2014 will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15,  at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Lima, 875 W. Market Street, Lima.  The family will receive friends following the service.  Arrangements are entrusted with Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Here's a photograph of Bluffton Order of Eastern Star, Chapter, Number 380, from 1959.

From top, left to right: Mildred Harkness, Donna Henderson, Betty Stratton, Imajean Ewing, Robert Ewing, Bob Stratton, Rhoda Augsburger.

Down the left side: D. Hilty, B. Bowyer, I. Thomas, Bud Augsburger.

Bottom from left,: Mary Jane Cook, Sara Jane Amstutz, B. Buckland, Alice DeVier, Janice McCune.

Up the right column, Georgia Irwin, K. Gratz, Theola Bonnet and D. Montgomery.

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Kirtland's Auto Sales, 302 N. Main St., Bluffton, has a new manager's special, according to Jim Kinn.

The vehicle is a 2006 Honda Civic LX listed at $9,995. For a complete list of this vehicle's features open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

And, visit Kirtland's website for their complete list of vehicles available.

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