Bluffton Icon viewers get their chance to vote on the name of the Bluffton Sportmen's Club number number 1 tagged trout for 2011. Tom Augsburger and Ryan Matter of the club, invited The Icon to create a poll for viewers to pick the trout's name.
The trout derby is the first Sunday of May. Next year's derby will celebrate Bluffton's 150th anniversary.
Three possible names were selected by club members as the number 1 trout.
For any musician, making a New York debut is a big deal. To be a college student and make a New York debut, that is huge.
Four Bluffton University students made their New York debut Oct. 21 with a piano recital in historic Steinway Hall. Pianists Brandon Fullenkamp, a senior from Wapakoneta, Stephanie Patterson, a junior from Findlay, and Tim Yoder, a junior from Dalton, performed alongside Dr. Lucia Unrau, professor and chair of music. Fullenkamp debuted a piece composed by fellow student James Brake, a junior from Ohio City.
Floyd C. Dickman, a children's literature specialist, will present "Outstanding Picture Books of 2010" on Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Kreider Room of Bluffton University's Marbeck Center.
Free and open to the public, identical hour-long sessions will begin at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sessions for Bluffton third-grade and home-schooled students will be held in the same room at 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Bluffton residents should expect high winds up to 50 to 60 miles per hours and heavy thundershowers between noon and 3 p.m., according to AEP.
Wide-spread high winds and severe thunderstorms will hit the AEP East Utilities today. A major storm over Minnesota rapidly intensified during the overnight hours. The strong cold front associated with the storm has already produced wind gusts of 45-55 mph with isolated gusts to 75 mph in severe thunderstorms across Missouri and Illinois.
Geraldine Mae Grismore Bucher, 93, died Oct. 22, 2010, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. She was born Aug. 8, 1917, in Bluffton to Allen and Cora Burkholder Grismore. Geraldine married S. Vinton Bucher on May 4, 1941, and he preceded her in death on Good Friday, 2009.
Mrs. Bucher graduated from Bluffton High School and attended Bluffton College. Geraldine and Vinton lived and worked on a farm next to her parent's farm. She worked as a telephone operator in Pandora and then at Triplett Corp. for more than 20 years.
