BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Airman 1st Class Tabetha Clark, a .50-caliber machine gun gunner and driver with the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, recently deployed from the 4th SFS, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.
Clark, a 2007 Bluffton High School graduate, deployed to work with an elite group of security forces airmen with the 455th ESFS, a quick reaction team known as the "Reapers."
The Freed Center for the Performing Arts and the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts present Miss Saigon in a concert presentation directed by Kirsten Osbun Manley.
Along with the ONU Symphony Orchestra and Musical Director Lloyd Butler, the cast will perform this widely-know, Tony award-winning musical with limited staging, props, and costuming.
The dates of the performance are Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2 p.m.
Fourth District Congressman Jim Jordan visited Bluffton on Tuesday and met informally with a dozen Bluffton officials.
Termed jokingly as a "square-table" discuss as opposed to a round-table discussion - simply because of the shape of the tables - the one-hour session included informing the congressman on village updates from school, industry, university and village officials.
The visit was coordinated by Bluffton Mayor Eric Fulcomer. Following the discussion, Jordan toured the remodeled Bluffton Hospital.
Bluffton University's bachelor's degree program in dietetics has long prepared its alumni for post-undergraduate internships nationwide. Beginning next fall, Bluffton will host an internship program of its own.
Successful completion of an accredited internship is required for eligibility to take the national registration exam. Passing that exam leads to state licensure in Ohio, allowing an individual to begin practicing dietetics.
By Mitchell Gatzke
The Detroit Tigers have raised the price of admission at Comerica Park for the 2012 season due to the amount of money they need to pay their players. This doesn't really come as a surprise following the off-season signing of first baseman Prince Fielder.
The Tigers inked a deal with the slugger that will keep him with the team for the next nine years to the tune of $214 million. This adds even more money onto the already bulky payroll the Tigers have that features big contracts with Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander.
Working with her hands seems to be second nature to Bluffton resident and wood worker Jackie Frey.
Maybe it's in her family genes. She owns a wooden ball massager that her great-grandfather carved. Also in her collection are several items created from metal that her maternal grandfather created to prove that he could do the job of a machinist.
Frey, a former staff member at Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton, shared many of her own pieces and talked about her hobby during a Feb. 10 program attended by nearly two dozen persons, mostly residents, at Maple Crest.
