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Connie Kruse of Town and Country Flowers, 121 S. Main St., Bluffton, reminds Bluffton High School students that homecoming is this weekend.

"Order your homecoming corsages and boutonniers today," she said. Town and Country's phone number is 419-358-4040.

15 minutes with Sharon  Zimmerly - Click on image to enlarge

When did you graduate from Ada High School?
I was in the class of 2004.

What did you participate in during your years at Ada?
I was in cheerleading, show choir, band, where I played the flute, and in drama club.

Tell me about what you remember from Kindergarten.
(Long pause). Mrs. Shull was my teacher. That’s about it.

That nasty asbestos is going, going, soon to be gone from the Bluffton town hall clock tower roof. Workers started removing it on Monday.

Bluffton University will host a fall concert featuring its Camerata Singers and Concert Band at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, in Yoder Recital Hall.

The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships during intermission.

Dr. Mark J. Suderman, professor of music, conducts Camerata Singers, a select, 25-voice chamber choir. Pianist Ana Yoder will accompany the chorus, which will present six numbers, including Mozart’s “Laudate Pueri” and a Virginia slave song, “Don’t Be Weary, Traveler.”

Dr. Rudi Kauffman, an assistant professor of restorative justice at Bluffton University, will discuss “Counting the Cost: Analyzing the Humanitarian Impacts of Just War-making” at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

Free and open to the public, the campus colloquium has been postponed one week, from Oct. 4, due to a scheduling conflict.

Here's the new fall menu at Mustard Seed Cafe

Mustard Seed celebrates fall with seasonal additions to its menu. 

An example of this new fare includes the Autumn Cobb Salad, made with spicy pecans, gorgonzola, bacon, hard-boiled egg, apple and avocado over a leafy mix with an apple cider vinaigrette.  One of the new fall sandwiches is the Autumn BLE, which is designed with bacon, arugula, shallot, fried egg, maple cream spread on homemade sourdough bread.

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