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Game 1 stats: http://www.bluffton.edu/sports/softball/2012/03-16-s1.htm>

I Game 2 stats: http://www.bluffton.edu/sports/softball/2012/03-16-s2.htm

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Do I smell pancakes on the griddle?

Yes, and the aroma is coming from the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center. The Bluffton Lion's Club Foundation-Senior Citizens pancake and sausage benefit is today (Saturday, March 17).

The 30th annual benefit is from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 17, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St. Tickets are $6.50 for adults and youth through age 5 are free when accompanied by an adult.

The benefit offers all the pancakes you can eat, whole hog sausage, coffee, tea, milk and applesauce. Tickets are available at the door.

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Because of the importance given to trees in the village, the Arbor Day Foundation this week designated Bluffton as a Tree City USA. This is the 20th year the village received the designation, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.

One of the significant players behind the scenes in the Tree City designation is the Bluffton Tree Commission.

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Going for it

Xavier Diller kicks the soccer ball toward the goal in a BFR soccer skills class for kindergarten through fourth graders. The class meets afternoon one day a week.

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Here's the Bluffton's Boy Scout Troop 56, taken in 1942.

Front from left, Malcolm Basinger, Gene Patterson, Ron Diller, Ted Kohli and Bob Ramseyer.

Second row from left, Paul Wingate, assistant scoutmaster, Bob Oberly, John Schmidt, Otto Klassen, Bill Amstutz, Karl Gable, scoutmaster.

Top row from left, Dean Niswander, Charles Triplehorn, Bob Fisher, Morris Kohli, Gordon Bixel, Don Augsburger and Bob Stratton. Absent when photo was taken was Bill Mericle.

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We've posted hundreds of license plates on The Icon, but this one is in a class by itself.

Study it for a moment. What do you see? You see a traditional Bluffton "YZ" but the plate is not Ohio. The plate is Arizona.

What's going on here? The answer is that "70 YZ" once upon a time belonged to James F. West of Sunset Drive. His son, John, moved to Arizona and took a little of Bluffton with him. John obtained the vanity plate for his dad's old Ohio plate.

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