Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) is accepting entries for its 2013 Big Idea Contest open to high school students in Allen, Hancock, Putnam and Hardin counties.
The contest offers cash prizes for the best new business concepts submitted, according to Denise Durenberger, BCE executive director and assistant professor of business at Bluffton University.
A panel of judges will select the winners. Cash prizes of $100 for first place, $50 for second place, and $25 for third place will be awarded.
Our four third graders this week are Ellie Nickel (Mrs. Raeburn), Lauren Swartzlander (Mrs. Bogart), Haelyn Bischoff (Mr. Armstrong) and Annie Talbot (Mrs. Kingsley).
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John E. Hartzler, 100, died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. He was born May 7, 1912 in Elkhart, Ind., the son of John E. and Mamie (Yoder) Hartzler. He was married on Dec. 23, 1934 to Christine J. Blosser.
John was a graduate of Bluffton High School and earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in History at the College of Wooster, and both the Master of Arts Degree in Political Science and the Ph.D. in Educational Administration at The Ohio State University.
The Holy Grail of Bluffton High School athletics is gone and we didn’t even get to say goodbye.
John Hartzler – not a Bluffton household name in 2013 – died at age 100 in January. Who was John Hartzler? Why does his death matter?
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In the dawn of Bluffton High School athletics the school played an independent schedule in all sports. Its team colors were red and white, but those teams were not called the Pirates. They had no mascot.
Like chili soup? Then, you'll love Richland Manor's Thursday, Feb. 21, chili cookoff. The event, hosted by Richland Manor, 7400 Swaney Road, Bluffton, starts at 6:30 p.m.
According to Sarah Foster, administrator, admission is free and there is a voluntary donation to assist the Cairo Food Bank.
A board of judges will choose the winning chili recipie and will award three top prizes:
First place - $100 Visa gift card
Second place - $75 Visa gift card
Third place - $50 Visa gift card
Bluffton University’s multicultural affairs office will host a soul food dinner at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in The Commons in Marbeck Center.
Cost is $9 for the dinner plus a presentation that will follow at 6 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
The program is scheduled to include performances by open-mic poet Xplicit and of the Langston Hughes poem “Negro Mother” by Janine King of Cleveland, and a stomp show by members of the Bowling Green State University chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
