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Many high school students do not have the time for a job on top of the several extra-curricular activities they may be involved in. But three Cory-Rawson High School students decided to do more than make money with the hours they spent working in or with farm machinery.

Jamie and Christian Nygaard and their sons

Q: When did you graduate from Bluffton High School?

A: 1995

Q: What did you do after high school?

A: I went to The Ohio Institute of Photography and Technology in Moraine (near Dayton). OIP&T is a tech school and doesn't have dorms, so I got an apartment with someone from my school and got a job at Bravo! Italian Kitchen as a hostess for the first couple years and then was promoted to banquet manager.


Q: What made you decide to settle in Bluffton?

Perhaps you've wondered about the photo on the masthead of The Icon. You've studied it and maybe think you've identified, Dick Cookson, Katheryn Patterson, Christine Purves and maybe even Clarence Kooker. You are on the right track. The photo shows residents of Maple Crest. The event was the 10th anniversary celebration of Maple Crest held in late September.

While the recent announcement that GM's Saturn vehicles will cease production is a blow to the American economy, here's a sideline to the story worth our consideration.

In the early stages of Saturn's creation there was speculation that one of the plant sites under consideration by General Motors was near Bluffton. With the village on Interstate 75 and within short driving distance of Detroit, the speculation may have been accurate.

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneur business tune-up seminars continue in October, according to John Bauer, BCE executive director. Seminars remaining on the fall schedule include:

Note: Material in "The Leek" follows in the great journalistic tradition of "The Onion," a national publication, which covers news like no other publication dares.

Bluffton residents awoke on Oct. 1 to the sight of several "X" and dotted lines marked in white on Main Street. Speculation quickly rambled through coffee clitches around the community as to the meaning of the markings.

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