Area teachers may now apply for a McDonald's MAC Grant, which offers financial support to help teachers Make Activities Count for their students.
Local McDonald's Owner, Jerry Lewis, is offering this educational initiative to assist area elementary and middle school teachers.
Recognizing that lessons often become more meaningful when demonstrated with hands-on experiences, McDonald's supplements regular classroom curriculum by supporting activities that the school's budget may not allow.
The Bluffton High School class of 1945 will celebrate its 65th reunion on Saturday, July 17.
The event will feature a catered luncheon on the third floor of the Town Hall.
"There are approximately 24 class members who have been notified and we expect a good turnout.All of us are in our 80s, but the memories of things that occurred in 1945 are vivid and fun to recall," said class member Charles A. Triplehorn of Hilliard,
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In the days before TV's Oscar and Miss Piggy, before Howdy Doody and Captain Kangaroo, there were picture books. Remember those??? Do you recall sitting on your grandmother's lap as she read to you the story of Peter Rabbit's narrow escape from Mr. McGregor's garden?
Hear that lonesome whistle, blowing down the tressle, whooo-weee. Most residents don't give it much thought, but freight trains like this one are twice-a-day visitors to Bluffton. Usually in the evening, this freight generally carries freight from Bellevue to Muncie, Ind. This one is heading toward Bellevue.
Any boy from grade 3-12 and parent are invited to a shooting and individual skill clinic instructed by Todd Boblitt, head boys' basketball coach at Bluffton High School.
This clinic is free and will be held at Bluffton High School from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 24.
Both son and parent need only bring tennis shoes and athletic pants. The morning will start with individual skill work for both parent and son.
By Jessanna Buschur, Bluffton University Icon intern Focus on: My Vu, Vietnam
Senior, Business Major, Bluffton University
My Vu, a senior at Bluffton University, has seen parts of the world that most persons only read about. She has visited Thailand, Sigapore, Malaysia and China, and Europe is on her world-wide wish list. While My says that Thailand is a favorite for shopping, she calls Vietnam home.
Icon viewer, Bo Antibus, on sabattical in Montana, spotted this plate in a Montana State University parking lot and passed it along to us. There's probably a similar plate from Ohio floating around somewhere.
Gina Holsopple is the next performer on the Town Hall Concert Series, sponsored by the Bluffton Cultural Affairs Committee, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick of the committee.
Holsopple, a singer-songwriter based in central New York, will perform at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 29, in the third floor of the town hall. Admission is by donation.
Joan Elizabeth Harrison, 82, of Bluffton passed away at 8 a.m., April 15, 2010, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born on Dec. 10, 1927 in Columbus, Ohio, to Orville R. and M. Elizabeth Tingley Jordan. On May 3, 1947, she married Pleasant Junior "P.J." Harrison and he preceded her in death on Nov. 14, 1984.
Mrs. Harrison had worked at Triplett Corporation, Bluffton. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Bluffton and the Order of Eastern Star. She was a 41-year breast cancer survivor and had graduated from West Liberty High School.
Heather Lutz, an employee of Jerry Lewis' Bluffton McDonald's Restaurant, was recently chosen as the McDonald's Crew Person of the Year for the state of Ohio.
Lutz was chosen out of nominees from the more than 700 Ohio McDonald's Restaurants.
