15 minutes with Katlyn Bates

You graduated from BHS this spring. Now what?

I've enrolled at Wright State University, Dayton, where I plan to major in nursing. I want to become an R.N. and then a nurse practitioner.

So, when is your last day at Common Grounds, and how much coffee do you drink in one day?

My last day is Saturday, Aug. 27, and no, I've actually never had any coffee in the two years that I've worked there. I do, however, like lattes.

The village of Bluffton will see its annual population spike this weekend, beginning Friday, Aug. 26, with about 280 new first-year and transfer students moving onto the Bluffton University campus.

New student move-in, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, will open a weekend on which other Bluffton undergraduates will return to campus for the start of classes Monday, Aug. 29.

Richard Wayne Augsburger, 87, of Bluffton, died at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 26, 2011 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born Feb. 20, 1924, in Bluffton to Harley E. and Rhoda Stratton Augsburger who preceded him in death. On Feb. 3, 1946, he married Virginia G. Roberts and she survives.

Mr. Augsburger was a 1942 graduate of Bluffton High School. He served three year in US Army during WWII and retired from Ex-Cell-O Corp., Bluffton in 1985. He attended Bluffton Baptist Church and was a member of American Legion Post 382, Bluffton.

Bluffton University's men's and women's soccer teams will hold a car wash fund-raiser from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 27, according to Rick Nussbaum, coach for both teams.

The annual donation car wash hosted by the soccer teams takes place at Springfield Fireworks between McDonald's and Taco Bell on State Route 103.

All donations are appreciated go toward helping with hotel costs in Chicago for the team's season openers with Moody Bible Institute/Benedictine (men) and St. Joseph's College (women) on Sept. 2 and 3.

Ottawa-Glandorf defeated Bluffton 8-0 in a girls' soccer match on Aug. 25 at Ottawa. Bluffton JV's whipped the Titans 7-0.

Game stats follow:

Halftime: OG, 2-0 Goals: (OG) Elerbrock, (OG) Hoehn, (OG) Nash, (OG) Osting, (OG) B Shroeder, (OG) D Shroeder, (OG) Warnecke, (OG) Warnecke. Assists: (OG) Nash, (OG) Arrington.
Shots on Goal: OG, 35-6. Corner Kicks: OG, 7-1,Saves: B,Heslep (25); OG,NA

Home: OG 1-0-0, NA
Ottawa
Away: Bluffton 0-1-0, 0-0-0

Narrative:

Excellent with Distinction - again!

That's the rating Bluffton Exempted Village Schools received from the 2010-2011 state school report card released this week.

For a complete look at Bluffton's report card click here.

To view the Blufton school district building report click here.

The Icon visited Raymond Harner's CG Pro Bike Shop in Columbus Grove this week. The shop is an Icon advertiser and, according Harner, the shop has attracted a large number of Bluffton area customers because of advertising on The Icon.

Our visit to the shop was to learn first-hand what Harner has to offer. We weren't disappointed. CG Pro Bike, located at 18550 State Route 65, just south of Columbus Grove, is a small-town biker's dream.

Every photographer in the world has one pseudo-Bigfoot video. Or hopes to. You will soon view mine. I'm talking about the classic Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film.

No matter how prepared you are to photograph on film a UFO, Bigfoot, or a big cat roaming freely across a wheat field when it actually belongs in the Rocky Mountains, you'll never photograph it perfectly.

Your film will be blurry, shaky, out of focus and way too short.