Guess who's throwing a first anniversary party... and it is today.
The Bluffton Icon, Bluffton's free on-line news source, celebrates its first anniversary with a party at Common Grounds.The event, open to the public, is from 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22, the actually anniversary date that the website went live in 2009.
Enjoy the last day of summer. During the final week of summer the high temperatures were stuck in the 80s and the lows in the 50s. Here are the highs and low for Sept. 14 to 20, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
The Bluffton High School Class of 1947 held a reunion in the town hall on Saturday noon, Sept. 18. Twenty class members were present, plus spouses and friends.
First row: Sara Mae (Oberly) Beery, Colleen (Goodman) Hight, Peggy (Martin) Hursey, Betty (Bixel) Jeschke, Wanda (Tschiegg) Geiger, Eleanor (Linden) Thurston, Jean Anne (Burcky) Burkholder.
Second row: Wanda (Lehman) Lyman, Sara Jane (Huser) Amstutz, Catherine (Bohn) Hartman, Helen (Burkholder) Brooks, Imogene (Wenger) Althaus, Alice Ruth (Pannabecker) Ramseyer, Joan (Burkholder) Dailey.
Despite sweeping the doubles matches, the Bluffton High School girls tennis team dropped a close 3-2 match to Celina here Tuesday.
Ashlin Gable and Emily Sprague continued their winning ways at No. 1 doubles, while Kristi Geiser and Liz Diller captured a long two-setter for the other Pirate points.
Shannon Koch lost a marathon match at No. 1 singles, while Amanda Solmonson and Rachel Sehlhorst also lost singles matches.
The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library group is holding its fall book sale now until Sept. 24 in conjunction with the library's 75th anniversary. The sale will take place at Bluffton Public Library during regular library hours. All items will be available for a monetary donation. For more information, log on to www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org, visit the library or call 419-358-5016.
On Friday, Sept. 24, the midget, junior high and high school cheerleading squads from Pandora-Gilboa will perform at halftime with the Pandora-Gilboa Marching Band.
"This is our fifth year joining the band for a performance," said Maranda Miller, cheerleader advisor. "This year the girls will not only be doing one dance but all three (China Grove, Hang on Sloppy, and our Fight Song)."
Claralice Hanna Wolf, now of Bluffton, grew up in Thailand as the daughter of missionaries. Her second book, Where Flows the River Twee, is a collection of six short stories set in the fictional town of Ban Sai Dang. Two of these stories, "The Parasol Painter" and "The Village Idiot" have both won awards* for short fiction.
Two groups of Bluffton University students will relate their cross-cultural experiences from last spring during campus forums at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 28 in Founders Hall. The presentations are free and open to the public.
