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For many college students, graduation means that life in the “real world” is beginning and “studying is over,” the mayor of Lima said at Bluffton University’s commencement ceremony May 4.

“I understand this perspective because I lived it,” added David Berger, noting that he skipped two graduation ceremonies—at the undergraduate and graduate levels—because they weren’t important and he didn’t have time for them. “I was done studying,” he recalled. “I needed to make money, to begin to pay my school debt.”

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LUNCH SPECIALS, May 6-9

TUESDAY
Tomato bisque
Chicken pot pie
BBQ pork
Red white and blue salad

WEDNESDAY
Vegetable beef soup
Fresh perch platter
Turkey club
Chicken Tuscan salad
Stuffed peppers with side salad

THURSDAY
Cream of mushroom soup
Personal pan pizza or calzone with side salad
Stacked ham
BLT salad

FRIDAY
Stuffed pepper soup
Grilled cheese tomato bacon
Tuna salad sandwich
Traverse City cherry salad

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Here’s a Bluffton fish story you’ve not heard, but if you are old enough, you’ve witnessed.

While in my backyard on Sunday afternoon, I’m convinced I heard Arden Baker’s distinctive voice speaking over a World War II-era PA system. The voice came from the direction of the Buckeye.

Anyone who knows Arden’s voice identifies it immediately. That PA system he spoke into, the loudest in Bluffton, is stored on the second floor of the town hall – maybe the third.

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It was a windy graduation, and it was celebrated indoors. Bluffton University's 114th annual commencement exercises took place Sunday. Here's a view of the grads as they processed from Founders to the Sommer Center.

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Willis Taylor, Jr., Bluffon College graduate from Youngstown, Ohio, died on March 27, 2014.

He was born to Rev. Willis Taylor, Sr. and Lucille Morris Taylor, on Sept. 14, 1945, in Mayersville, Miss. When he was seven years old, his family moved to Youngstown.

Willis graduated from South High School in 1954. He graduated in 1958 from Bluffton College, now Bluffton University. While at B.C. he played football, basketball, and ran track. Following college he enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years.

In 1960, he married Barbara Streid and moved to Chicago.

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The long wait is over. On Saturday, May 3, the popular Bluffton Farmers' Market opens for its 11th season. The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold an official ribbon cutting to launch this year's market prior to its morning opening.

The market will be open rain or shine, from 8:30 a.m. to noon each Saturday from May 3 until then end of October.

The market is in the Citizens National Bank parking lot. Persons interested in becoming vendors should contact Peter Previte at 567-674-9513.

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