Two valiant Bluffton po-licemen were honored post-humously in a special cer-emony held after Monday night’s council meeting. The two men, Mr. Frank Her-rmann and Mr. Owen Grand-staff, died in the line of duty while protecting Bluffton’s streets in 1929 and 1927, respectively. On the night of March 26, 1927 Offi cer Grandstaff (fi lling in for an ill fellow offi cer, Frank Her-rmann) arrested a Columbus Grove youth on suspicion of passing a bad check. Of-fi cer Grandstaff was escort-ing the suspect to jail when the young man decided to make a break for it. While running after the suspect, the 69-year-old offi cer suffered a heart attack and collapsed. Offi cer Grandstaff was a widower and was living with a stepdaughter before his un-expected death.

Offi cer Frank Herrmann was on foot patrol on Sep-tember 3, 1929 when he ob-served a young man speeding down Main Street in an au-tomobile. Offi cer Herrmann attempted a traffi c stop by stepping out into the street in front of the car while pulling out his service revolver. The speeding motorist mistook the offi cer’s action as an at-tempt at hijacking his car. He reported that did not see Offi cer Herrmann’s badge until it was too late for him to swerve away from the po-liceman. The 68-year-old of-fi cer was taken to the hospital and died two days later from his injuries. He left behind a wife, Harriet, a daughter,

Pauline Stein, and two sons, Jerome and Sylvan. Sylvan, followed in his father’s foot-steps by serving and protect-ing Bluffton in a different way; he was a World War I veteran.

Offi cers Herrmann and Grandstaff were mentioned in a Bluffton News article from March 1986 called “Unsung Bluffton Heroes” by Rolland Stratton, which was republished in the Nov. 27, 2011 Bluffton News. Bluffton Police Chief Rick Skilliter happened to read the reprint of that article and from it learned about the on-duty deaths of the two offi cers. It was he who spearheaded the effort to get the two former Bluffton po-licemen recognized for their supreme sacrifi ce.

Descendents of Grand-staff & Herrmann were pres-ent to witness their recogni-tion and memorial ceremony on Monday. The ceremony began with an opening prayer from the EMS chap-lain, Rev. Terry Hunt. Hunt thanked God for the oppor-tunity to honor the two men and for what they gave. He also prayed for the offi cers present at the ceremony and across the nation and asked God to protect them, keep watch over them, and give them courage. After the prayers, Council President Dennis Gallant welcomed everyone to the Service of Remembrance and expressed Mayor Fulcomer’s regrets at being unable to attend.

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On Friday (May 11) morn-ing the Bluffton Area Cham-ber of Commerce held its meeting for the month of May. As Bluffton University was the breakfast’s sponsor, much of the program was used to update the chamber members on the development of the athletic facility current-ly being constructed.

BU Vice President for Fis-cal Affairs Kevin Nickel, who is overseeing the project, fi rst shared some background in-formation on the initiative. On July 11th the groundbreak-ing ceremony for the project was held, which started the construction process. At that point, it was simply called the Health and Fitness Edu-cation Center. A recent nam-ing gift made by the Sommer family of central western Il-linois, with deep ties to BU, collectively gave the largest gift in the university’s history. The building will be known as the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education. The Sommer Center will be a 60,000 square foot building, costing about $13.75 Million.

Nickel noted, as is the case with a number of other buildings on Bluffton’s cam-pus, this building was funded completely by contributions from university supporters, including local individu-als and organizations here in Bluffton and the surrounding areas.

“Thank you for all of your support. That support has al-lowed us to do this building without having to raise tuition fees for our students which is critical in this time of a chal-lenging higher education en-vironment,” Nickel said.

The Sommer Center will be home to the men’s and women’s basketball teams, the volleyball team, and the academic department of health, fi tness and sports sci-ence. The center will also feature a 5,000 square foot weight and fi tness area, that all students will be able to use, an indoor walking and

jogging track and a multipur-pose room that can be used for dinners, receptions and conferences, as well as aero-bics classes.

Nickel said the new ath-letic facility will be a LEED certifi ed building, based on the U.S. Green Build-ing Council of Standards, a certifi cation that is based on the use of environmentally friendly materials, natural lighting and other building projects such as the retention pond the Sommer Center will be equipped with.

Grob Systems Inc., located at 1070 Navajo Dr. Bluffton, OH, has begun its expansion process as groundwork start-ed early last week at the back of the plant building. Approx-imately 90,000 square feet will be added to Grob’s exist-ing building to create more room for assembly purposes. The addition will increase the main building’s size by nearly 50 percent.

Space, or the lack thereof, has become an issue at the Grob facility as the company continues to see its workload and workforce increase. Grob is currently renting storage

space at Colonial Solutions and Ohio Logistics and uses it’s airport hangar to store ma-terials and components that are awaiting fi nal assembly, as room on the fi nal assembly fl oor has become a rarity.

“The addition in space is necessary with the rate of pro-duction we’re going at right now, we are very limited in space,” Grob Chief Executive Offi cer Ralf Bronnenmeier said. “Things that we usually would store in our building or would just start earlier with assembly, we now try to store outside [of the plant].”

The Grob facility in Bluff-ton will be working on com-mon projects with its parent

company in Germany, one of which is a very large pro-gram offered to them by Gen-eral Motors (GM). For the next three years, Grob will be making all of the cylin-der block lines for GM world wide. Along with GM, Bron-nenmeier said they expect to handle projects for other companies such as Ford, John Deere and Caterpillar in the near future, as these type of companies continue to join in on the trend of produc-ing more fuel effi cient and “green” vehicles. This trend has resulted in a lot more orders for Grob, fl ipping the pace from a couple of years ago when business was much slower due to the economic downturn in the automotive industry, according to Bron-nenmeier.

“The picture has changed completely in the last year and a half. It seems like the American carmakers are catching up for a lot of the things they haven’t done in the past. They’re investing more in fuel effi cient engines and more modern engine de-signs and changes to the en-gines usually mean they need new production equipment which is basically our line of work,” Bronnenmeier said.

Patricia Garlock, VP, Findlay Branch Manager First National Bank (FNB), Robert Sprague, State Representative and Todd Mason, President/CEO of FNB all help to cut the ribbon to sig-nify the grand opening of the Findlay West branch. Photo by Austin Arnold

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First National Bank, which was established over 90 years ago in Pandora, Ohio, held its grand opening of its Findlay West branch, located at 1114 Trenton Av-enue, on Friday, May 11, 2012. First National Bank has locations in Pandora, Bluffton and now two Find-lay sites, the other being on Tiffi n Avenue.

First National Bank rep-resentatives, Findlay Han-cock County Chamber of Commerce representatives and community members gathered together for a brief ceremony that included a ribbon cutting to mark a cel-ebration of the bank’s open-ing. Before Friday’s event, which also featured grilled hotdogs and snacks, tours of the bank, free giveaways and WKXA radio station on site, the Findlay West Branch

quietly opened on February 27, 2012. The dedication on Friday was to publicly recog-nize the bank’s opening.

Present for the event was First National Bank Presi-dent and CEO Todd Mason who reiterated the bank’s philosophy before cutting the ribbon.

“In 1919 First National Bank came together to start a community bank and our bank hasn’t changed, we continue to support the communities and the whole reason we came here is to continue that community involvement. First National Bank is not a bank that will take deposits and move those to a large city, we invest back into our community right here,” Mason said.

For the bank to better meet the needs of the Find-lay community, it became a necessity for a second loca-tion to be made available for that area.

“We couldn’t service this market correctly with one branch, so with two branches we can truly take care of this community,” Mason said.

The Findlay West build-ing was designed by R.D. Neff Associates, of Bluffton, OH and the building was constructed by Clouse Con-struction of New Riegel, OH.

“We’re really excited to be opening up this branch and to be able to help sup-port our existing offi ce on the east side of Findlay with this new offi ce. We’ve got-ten a lot of good feedback from customers as far as us being able to adequately take care of them up here with the second branch,” Senior Vice President and Sales Direc-tor Brendon Matthews, who operates out of the Bluffton offi ce, said. “We’re excited about the prospects and re-ally happy Findlay has wel-comed us with open arms.”

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Ground work on the addition started a little over a week ago Photo by Austin Arnold

First National Bank Holds Grand Opening for New Branch

BACC Meeting Features Update on BU’s Sommer Center Building

Kevin Nickel, Vice President for Fiscal Affairs at Bluffton University Photo by Austin Arnold

This projected image shows the expansion (outlined in white) that will be made at the back of the Grob plant. Photo provided by Grob Systems Inc.

Grob Begins Expansion Project, Will Add 90,000 Sq. Ft. to Plant

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Service of Remembrance Held for Fallen Officers of the 1920’s

Bluffton Police Chief Rick Skilliter gives the background of the two fallen offi cers, who died over 80 years ago as Fire Chief Jon Kinn looks on. Photo by Austin Arnold

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“As President, when I give an order, nothing hap-pens.” I have heard this quote attributed to President Eisenhower who had previ-ously served as Supreme Commander of Allied Forc-es in World War II. I cannot verify the attribution, but it makes perfectly good sense that Eisenhower might well have expressed that senti-ment out of frustration for how the federal government works. I was led to recall that, possibly apocryphal, citation as I refl ect on the claim by presumptive Re-publican nominee for Presi-dent, Mitt Romney, that his experience as head of Bain Capital is evidence of his qualifi cation to be elected President. It’s my guess that, upon his election, Romney, not unlike Eisen-hower, will discover that his executive experience doesn’t serve him particu-larly well as the country’s chief executive. There’s no doubt that Romney was tremendously successful as a venture capitalist, amass-ing a huge fortune for him-self. But, at Bain, Romney had no customers to whom he had to cater. He only needed to satisfy his fellow capitalist-investors. And, as CEO of that fi rm, when he

gave an order, things hap-pened! He had similar au-thority when he served suc-cessfully as head of the U.S. Olympics.

In my opinion, the two most effective Presidents in the last 50 years have been Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan. Johnson’s strength was in the cajol-ing and favor-trading skills he learned in the House of Representatives. He was able to maneuver between competing interests to fi nd areas where agreement could be reached and leg-islation could be adopted. Reagan’s strength was in his personality and command of the media that he learned in his theatrical career. By the simple fact of his likeability and his ability to commu-nicate, Reagan steered leg-islation through Congress by convincing Americans that his agenda was in their best interest. His mastery of television enabled him to explain in an easily un-derstood manner complex issues of national concern. It seems to me that neither of the current candidates has the ability of Johnson or Reagan. Obama often comes off as aloof and pro-fessorial, and has not been able to demonstrate any

convincing ability to move his own party toward com-promise. Romney seems polished and self-confi dent, but fails to engage his audi-ences emotionally.

Romney deserves credit for having successfully served as Governor of icon-ically liberal and Demo-

cratic Commonwealth of Massachusetts. One can be fairly certain that the legis-lature did not simply salute and follow the Governor’s edicts, so some compromis-es must have been struck. This experience will better serve Romney, if he is elect-ed President, than his role as a chief executive. How-ever, at that stage in his life, Romney took considerably more moderate positions on social issues that are so important to the Republican Party’s base voters, par-ticularly abortion and gay rights. In the course of the

Republican primary cam-paign, Romney has taken fi rm stands in favor of the right to life and the tradi-tional understanding of the right to marry as exclusive to heterosexual couples. While it was important to take these conservative po-sitions to gain the nomina-

tion, they place Romney to the right of the position polls show most Americans hold. And, if the electorate judges him as too far out of the mainstream on these is-sues, it could cost him sig-nifi cant support in this fall’s general election.

In the highly partisan di-vide in the current Congress, neither party has distin-guished itself as a paragon of political compromise. The result has been gridlock of historic proportions that has threatened the ability of the federal government to function: the Federal Avia-

tion Administration was nearly shut down over a funding fi ght; and the Trea-sury’s ability to fi nance the government was in jeopardy in the fi ght over increasing the debt limit. While one cannot lay the entire blame on the President, the inabil-ity of Congress to agree on a plan to reduce the federal defi cit and pay down our na-tional debt, in effect to defer this vitally important matter yet again for a future ses-sion of Congress to solve, refl ects poorly on Obama as well as members of Con-gress. The next Presidential administration must make bold proposals addressing the budget defi cit and fi nd a way to convince Congress to compromise on workable solutions.

President Eisenhower is quoted as having said, “I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.” He also said, “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head. That’s as-sault, not leadership.” Ike’s wisdom would be a wise course for any prospective leader of our nation to fol-low. My own experience in

nearly 35 years as a man-ager of groups of people convinced me of the worth of persuasion versus power in convincing people to do what needed doing. I be-lieve effective leadership takes place as much from behind, in offering encour-agement and help, as from out front leading the charge. I was never the chief execu-tive and so did not have the responsibility for creating the vision or charting the course of our organizations. That takes a special talent, more like President Rea-gan’s.

What we truly need in the next President, in my opinion, is a combination of President Johnson’s wiles in maneuvering through the legislative process and President Reagan’s strength of personality to convince the American public of the necessity of sacrifi cing – for the sake of the future, and to pay for past profl igacy. From this vantage point, it’s most likely that I will be sorely disappointed over the next four years, no matter who is elected.

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Jeremy Sharninghouse and Fairy Parkins. Photo submitted by Fairy Parkins

With the infl ux of more work, the company not only decided to add more physi-cal space to the facility but to add more personnel as well. And, it appears they will be continuing that trend for some time. Over the last 14 months, Grob has added over 70 people, and they expect to bring in nearly 25 more employees in June. On average, for the next two to three years, Grob anticipates adding 35 to 40 people per year, as long as the economy stays relatively the same as it is now. Grob is still ac-tively pursuing qualifi ed mechanical and electrical engineers and technicians, Bronnenmeier said.

Every year in spring, Grob seeks candidates, usu-ally new high school gradu-ates, for its mechanical and electrical training program. This year, Grob has made some changes to their ap-

prentice program in an at-tempt to attract more high potential candidates in those areas. They will be offering mechanical and electrical based apprenticeships for three years and after three years the worker will earn a two-year associates degree. If the worker is interested in furthering their education and trade skills, that two-year degree can then count toward a four-year engineer-ing degree.

The cost of the Grob ex-pansion is estimated at about $8.5 million and the compa-ny will also invest about $4 million in additional equip-ment and machinery over the next two years, accord-ing to Bronnenmeier. The majority of the funding has come from a State of Ohio bond that Grob was granted earlier this year. The build-ing expansion was designed by Larson & Darby Group

of Rockford, IL, and the general construction bid was awarded to Ferguson Con-struction of Sydney, OH. To accommodate for the additional workforce, the parking lot is also being ex-panded at the Grob facility, expecting to add 94 spaces. The expansions of the build-ing and parking lot are esti-mated to be complete by this Thanksgiving, with inten-tion of moving into the new production area shortly after Thanksgiving.

Grob’s Bluffton facil-ity will not be the only site undergoing expansion as the parent company’s location in Germany will be expand-ing by 200,000 square feet, and the China facility, which is set to start initial produc-tion in June, will be adding another module of around 120,000 square feet this summer, according to Bron-nenmeier.

Sharon Basil, Deputy Grand Matron of District #26, Order of the Eastern Star was Inspecting Offi cer for the in-spection of offi cers for Raw-son Chapter held at Mt. Cory Masonic Lodge in Mt. Cory on April 23rd at 7:30 p.m.

Distinguished guests pres-ent were: Past Grand Ma-tron and Secretary Emeritus, Jean Beck, Findlay Chapter; Grand Esther, Sharon Weav-er, Latham Chapter, Kenton, OH; Deputy Grand Matron of District #8, Patti Askins, Grove Chapter, Columbus Grove. Grand Representa-tives attending were: Marilyn Wisecup, Lafayette Chap-ter, representing Australia in Ohio and Jean Sullivan, Find-lay, Ohio representing Florida in Ohio.

Worthy Matrons and Wor-thy Patrons presented were: Brenda Boster, Findlay Chap-ter; Roberta Flinn, Latham Chapter, Kenton; Lisa Sharn-inghouse, Morris Chapter, North Baltimore; Leo Garey, Findlay Chapter and Cloyce Treece, Trinity Chapter, Lima.

District offi cers recog-nized were: President—Judy Kinney, Latham Chapter, Vice-President, Madonna

Wagner, Findlay Chapter and Secretary-Treasurer, Rita Fol-las, Rawson Chapter.

Grand Pages for the next Grand Chapter session are: Rita Follas to the Drill Direc-tor, Ruth Augustine to Grand Esther and Barb Fett to the Deputy Grand Matron of Dis-trict #8.

Grand Aides are: Bud James, to the Deputy Grand Matron of District #26; Jer-emy Sharninghouse to the Deputy Grand Matron of Dis-trict #6 and Jerry Augustine to the Deputy Grand Matron of District #26.

District Charities Director is Fairy Parkins.

Honored Masons were: Oscar Schultz, and Cloyce Treece both KYCH; Darl Waltermire and Leo Garey KYCH and Meritorious Ser-vice Award, Valley of Toledo; Jeremy Sharninghouse and David Engelhardt, Past Dis-trict Deputy Grand Masters of the Tenth Masonic Dis-trict. Lynn Basinger, DDGHP 7th District of RAM and also KYCH. John Rumor, of La-fayette is serving as District Lodge Education Offi cer.

Fairy Parkins, Bluffton, Ohio is serving as Worthy Matron and Jeremy Sharn-

inghouse, North Baltimore as the Worthy Patron this year. Others serving with them are: Associate Matron, Katie Bear; Associate Patron, Jerry Augustine; Secretary, Ruth Augustine; Treasurer, Cindy Powell; Conductress, Betty Basinger; Associate Con-ductress, Charlene Brock; Chaplain, Rita Follas; Mar-shal, Steve Horton; Organ-ist, Lavonne Eckert; Adah, Arlene Higbie; Ruth, Ruth Placke; Esther, Martha, Lisa Sharninghouse; Electa, Pat Redding; Warder, Madeline Wilson; and Sentinel, Lynn Basinger.

Fairy’s theme for the year is ‘Magic and Love are Closer Than You Think.’ Her symbol is “Magic Fairy.” Her colors are red and black and ‘Mixed Flower Garden’ is her fl ower. She is honoring the station of Marshal in honor of her late husband, Ed. The scripture verse is 1 Timothy 4:14-16 and her service proj-ect is the ‘Make a Wish Foun-dation.’ Her Motto is ‘the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched but must be felt in the heart.’

Rawson Chapter #550 Order of the Eastern Star Names Officers

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: The earth has been leveled around the homes and the detention pond has been created. Siding is nearly complete on both homes and stone work has begun. The drywall is nearly fi nished in House A while the ceilings and walls of House B are being painted. Appliances have been ordered. Most of them came from Whirlpool which generously provided a signifi cant discount. We are pleased that the inspection process has gone well and all have passed.

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On Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at approximately 5:44 pm., police were called to investigate an incident at the First Mennonite Church lo-cated at 101 S. Jackson Street, Bluffton. Police report a 39- year-old female was in the church when she was con-

fronted by an unknown male. The male approached her and demanded she hand over her money. The female fl ed to-ward an escape and the male did not follow her.

The unknown male is de-scribed as approximately 6’, lanky build, wearing a long

sleeved shirt, gloves, and a mask.

Anyone with information about this incident is encour-aged to contact Bluffton Po-lice at 419-358-2961.

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Bluffton Policemen HonoredHe then proceeded to read

aloud a proclamation signed by the mayor. The proclama-tion calls upon the citizens of Bluffton to observe the week of May 13th through May 19th, 2012 as Police Week “with appropriate ceremonies and observances in which all of our people may join in commemorat-ing law enforcement offi -cers, past and present…”. In the proclamation, the Mayor also calls upon the citizens of Bluffton “to observe May 15th as Peace Offi cers’ Me-morial Day in honor of those law enforcement offi cers who, through their coura-geous deeds, have made the ultimate sacrifi ce in service to their community or have become disabled in the per-formance of duty…”

After the proclamation was read, Police Chief Rick Skilliter gave a departmental address, which included gen-eral statics about police offi -cers that have died in the line

of duty and gave details about how Offi cers Herrmann and Grandstaff lost their lives. Skilliter also said that both offi cers’ names have been submitted to the National Law Enforcement Offi cers Memorial Fund for inclusion on the Fallen Offi cers’ Me-morial Wall in Washington, D.C. He then presented the memorial plaques, reading each one aloud. Both offi cers will have a plaque hung in the lobby of the police de-partment, which will list their names and briefl y recount how they died in the line of duty. The plaques will remain there so that the sacrifi ces of the fallen offi cers will never again be forgotten.

At the conclusion of the service Travis Unterbrink gave a solemn performance of Taps as those gathered respectfully stood and the as-sembled police offi cers and boy scouts remained at at-tention. Skilliter then invited everyone to help themselves

to light refreshments and to take a tour of the police de-partment on the second fl oor of the building. As those who attended the ceremony began to move about freely and talk in small groups the fallen of-fi cers’ relatives remained for pictures and also shared sto-ries of the two heroes, their families, and how they have been remembered through the years. The descendants also expressed their appre-ciation for the memorial ser-vice in honor of their family members.

The Service of Remem-brance meant a lot to Mike Meeker, descendant of Owen Grandstaff. “As Chief Skilli-ter said, ‘Gone but not for-gotten.’ I’m a veteran and we never forget. If we could just always remember the men and women that serve our country, and even the police offi cers and the personnel in that regard,” Meeker said, fo-cusing on how important it is to never forget them.

Chief Skilliter with descendants of Frank Herrmann. Left to right: Jim Blausey, Sandy Blausey, Mary Lou Blausey, David Blausey and Daryl Blausey.

Chief Skilliter with descendants of Owen Grandstaff. Left to right: Janet Meeker, Michael Meeker, Eldon Meeker and Janett Meeker. Photos by Austin Arnold

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Building

In the past two weeks the building project has re-ally taken quite a few sig-nifi cant steps. The concrete slab pours will be complete by Friday for the majority of the building, steel is going up for the 2nd fl oor, and drain-age tile work to keep water out of the retention pond is complete (on the other side of CR 26). The masons con-tinue to work at an excellent pace in both the classroom area (where you can now see the roofl ine taking shape) and in the gym area (where the scaffolding, for those that are afraid of heights, is reaching skyward every day!).

Teacher Appreciation

This week was desig-nated as “Teacher Apprecia-tion Week” as a way to show teachers how much we sin-cerely appreciate everything they do for our school, stu-dents, and community. We are blessed at Cory-Rawson to have a staff of caring and dedicated teachers who spend countless hours before and after school working to en-sure that our youngsters get the best possible education. Over the past few years our staff has dealt with myriad signifi cant changes in re-quirements from the federal and state level, reduced staff-ing levels in some areas, and a signifi cant turnover in lead-ership of the district. Despite all of those factors, our teach-ers have kept their focus on the most important aspect of their job – educating our stu-dents. This year, especially, they have proven that they can tackle signifi cant chal-lenges and changes in how we do educate our students. We’ve implemented many new programs and taken a different direction than we have in the past in an effort to

keep improving the education we provide. Thank you to the teachers for everything that you do for our students!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Rachel Welch who placed 1st in the State FFA Creed Speaking Contest! Rachel received her award at the State FFA Convention in Columbus on Thursday, May 5th. Rachel had the honor of present-ing her speech to over 5,000 FFA members at the annual convention at the Columbus Exposition Center. Great job Rachel and good luck at the National Convention!

Congratulations to the fol-lowing 7th grade students who were honored by the Daughters of the American Revolution essay contest, Seventh Grade Division:

Bryce Tuttle: First for both the local AND district chapters

Chloe Parke: Second in the local chapter

TJ Washer: Third in the lo-cal chapter

Congratulations to the fol-lowing students who will be recognized at an upcoming Board of Education Meeting for their accomplishments:

Savannah Long – 5th place in Equine Judging (out of 475 competitors at the Ohio State Fairgrounds) and 8th (out of 45) at the State FFA Competi-tion

Em-ily Rettig – FCCLA Power of One – State Award

Dallas Tennant – FCCLA Power of One – State Award

Steven Walter – FCCLA Power of One – State Award

Allyson Wolfarth – FCCLA Power of One – State Award

Congratulations to the Cory-Rawson School Com-munity for recent recognition

by the U.S. News & World Report:

The magazine’s annual rankings of the best high schools in the country and state-by-state rated several area schools very high in the state. Rankings were deter-mined by college readiness scores, math and reading pro-fi ciencies, and student-teach-er ratios. While no Hancock County schools were listed in the top 100, four were given “medal winner” (Bronze) status including Liberty-Ben-ton, Arcadia, Arlington, and Cory-Rawson.

Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati was the top high school in Ohio while the School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas was ranked No. 1 in the nation, according to the magazine.

Interviews

Just a quick note on the progress in interviewing for the several open positions we have (KG, Title I Reading, Elementary Art, HS Math, HS English, Head Coach - Foot-ball)…Mrs. Spuller, several teachers, and I have nearly completed the 2nd round of interviews for both the KG and Title I Reading position. We had nearly 200 applicants for the KG position alone. There are so many young, tal-ented teachers out there and, without a doubt, we have seen that in the applicants we have interviewed. Elementary Art interviews will begin very soon, as will HS Math, HS English, and Football. It’s a daunting task to have so many interviews to complete, but at the same time we must approach this as an amazing opportunity to make a signifi -cant impact on the education-al environment at our school.

Top left photo: Zach Cozadd and Sebastian Moneer. Above right photo: Cozadd, instructor Mr. Fielder, and Moneer were awarded second place in the automotive skills competition. Above photo: Moneer (left) and Cozadd (right) work quickly to assess mechanical problems of a vehicle in the competition. Photos submitted by Beth Davis

Community Update from C-R Superintendent Robert HlaskoOn Thursday, May 10,

2012, 20 high school stu-dents from across Ohio put their automotive knowledge to the test as they competed in the 63rd annual Ford/AAA Auto Skills State Com-petition at Owens Commu-nity College.

High schools and students that participated in the state competition are Apollo Ca-reer Center in Lima (Sebas-tian Moneer of Spencerville and Zach Cozadd of Bluff-ton), Coshocton County Career Center in Coshocton (Tyler Hostetler of Newcom-erstown and Ben Modesitt of Frazeysburg), EHOVE Career Center in Milan (Roy Hinckley of Wakeman and Nathan Summers of Wake-man), Fairfi eld Career Center in Carroll (Tyler Milisits of Sugar Grove and Jake Kidd of Carroll), Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton (Zachary Abner of Farmersville and Joseph

Anderson of Englewood), Sentinel Career and Technol-ogy Center in Tiffi n (Ricardo Galvan of Fostoria and Bran-don Seasly of Republic), Tolles Career and Technical Center in Plain City (Samuel Ford of Columbus and Justin Reisinger of West Jefferson), Trumbull Career and Techni-cal Center in Warren (Liki Turner of Warren and Rob-ert Strohmeyer of Brook-fi eld), Valley Forge High School in Parma Heights (Vitaliy Reshetnyak of Parma Heights and Ka-mil Falkowski of Parma Heights) and Whitmer Career and Technology Center in Toledo (Josiah Meiring of Toledo and Michael Stockdale of To-ledo).

Each team (consist-ing of two students each) completed various test-ing to determine their expertise of automobiles. As part of the practical

skills competition, teams were required to locate, iden-tify and repair malfunctions on new 2012 Ford Fusion vehicles, which were donat-ed by the Hertz Corp. Once the vehicle was properly diagnosed and repaired, the teams had to drive across the fi nish line, where the vehicle was inspected by automotive industry professionals.

Zach Cozadd of Bluff-ton and Sebastian Moneer of Spencerville with Apollo Career Center took 2nd place in competition. They re-ceived scholarships and vari-ous prizes. Apollo has only excelled to this competition once before (2003 with Jus-tin Davis & John Rampe).

This marks the third time (2003 and 2004) that Owens has served as host site for the state competition. Owens Community College is an accredited two-year, state-assisted institution of higher education that has served Northwest Ohio since 1965.

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BU Sommer Center Update“We’re aiming for a silver

double certifi cation, I think based on where the project is at right now, we’ll probably beat the silver and end up with gold but some of that is still to be determined,” Nick-el said.

As far as the schedule, Nickel and the university are optimistic that the building will be completed on time.

“Overall, the weather on this project has been excellent except for the late fall with all

of the rain. We lost about 45 days of construction in those couple of months. We were able to condense some of the construction schedule down as the contractors and sub-contractors have been very good at condensing quite a bit of time out of their sched-ules, and the great weather we have had this spring has allowed for us to make up a few days,” Nickel said.

The university’s goal is to still open the center before

the next basketball season with the hopes of being able to dedicate the building dur-ing the homecoming week-end which falls on October 13.

Once the current athletic facility is vacated by the ath-letic teams, Founders Hall will still be utilized, largely by the intramural squads at Bluffton University, accord-ing to Nickel.

13th Annual UNOH Trouble-shooting Contest, May 18

Sprague Named BHS Student of the Month

Bluffton High School’s Student of the Month for April is Emily Sprague. Em-ily, a junior, is the daughter of Jon and Aimee Sprague, of Bluffton, OH. Emily is part of SADD Club, Span-ish Club and National Honor

Society. As a member of the tennis team, Emily has won Second Team All-District and the Golden Racquet Award. Academically, she holds a 4.0 GPA and has re-ceived perfect attendance, the Pirate Award and awards in geometry and discovering foods. Her interests include helping coach tennis to ele-mentary children at the BFR, working in her church’s nurs-ery and babysitting. Emily also works as an offi ce help-er at the high school. In her spare time, Emily likes being with friends and playing the piano. Although she is unde-cided on a school, she wishes to study speech therapy/pa-thology in the future.

The Better Business Bu-reau has been fi elding doz-ens of calls about a phone solicitation that is going on in the area called “Cops for Kids.” This organization is headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio and has no local ties nor does it help anyone in our region. Fraternal Order of Police President, Michael Watkins, says the name is similar to one used by the Lima Lodge #21 FOP called “Cops & Kids.”

Watkins says he does not want local residents donating to this organization believing it is the local charity which is primarily used to benefi t children in Allen County.

The BBB advises any organization soliciting resi-dents for a charity should be checked out through the Bet-ter Business Bureau before committing a donation or pledge.

‘Cops for Kids’ Not a Local FundraiserThe University of North-

western Ohio will hold the fi nal hands-on phase of its automotive and diesel troubleshooting contests on Friday, May 18, 2012. The competition starts at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 12 noon. Students in the Automotive Division will be competing in the 300 Building on the University campus. Diesel students will be competing in the 400 Building. A lun-

cheon and awards ceremony will immediately follow the competition and will be held in the 600 Building Student Lounge from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.

Students in the Univer-sity of Northwestern Ohio’s College of Applied Tech-nologies began the competi-tion by taking a written test. Fourteen fi nalists in the au-tomotive division and four-teen fi nalists in the diesel

division are chosen for the elimination round.

The top three fi nalists in the diesel and automotive competitions will receive plaques, University tuition scholarships, Snap-On tool kits, and be recognized at the Career Magnet employ-er’s dinner. Total scholar-ships awarded come to over $11,000!

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May 23, 1912 – “The following [Bluffton College] stude3nts compose the graduating classes of the different departments: College – Orlin Schumacher, C.A. Biery, Inez Doty, A. Hauenstein, Elvina Schumacher. Academy – Sylvia Tschantz, Effi e Lantz, Edna Kennel, J. Helen Kennel, Bessie Kennel, Russel R. Burgan, Menno E. Stauffer, T.M. Boese, Philemon P. Sprunger, Harry Kohler. Commercial – Miss Liechty, Mildred Williams.” In other news that week, the “Rockport” column reported, “Frank Jagger’s faithful dog ‘Dan’ is no more. D.C. Campbell put him out of time with his automobile, Sunday morning.”

May 20, 1937 – Twenty-one seniors would be receiving diplomas during com-mencement exercises at Mt. Cory High School. They were Maurice Boutwell, Maxine Businger, Ruth Bowersox, Raymond Dale Crawford, Clara Collert, Jasper Dukes, Lena Marie Flath, Howard Frantz, Nathan Green, Raymond Hartman, Edwin Inbody, Louise King, Angeline Lee, Dorothy McVey, Leah Mae Reese, Eugene Schwab, Gideon Steiner, Bernadine Steininger, Maedonna Stout, Harold Welty and Wayne Westall. In other news that week, Bluffton High School seniors announced a production of the dramatic play “Song of My Heart.” Cast members were Marvin Hilty, Mary Irwin, Wava Worthington, Betty Amstutz, John Stonehill, Gertrude Ewing, Paul Kliewer, James Griffi th, Eddyth Badertscher, Eloise Lora and Ruth Geiser. P.W. Stauffer was the direc-tor.

May 24, 1962 – Ten-year-old Bluffton resident Marsha Marshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Marshall, was “struck by a bolt of lightning which bounced around the pipes in the basement of her home,” the newspaper reported. She “suffered no ill effects…except for a tiny burn on the stomach…. [She] was leaning against a sink, her hands in water cleaning eggs at the time.” In other news that week, Bluffton American Legion Post 382 installed the follow-ing offi cers: World War II veteran Wayne Badertscher, commander; Billy Chidester, vice commander; Lyle Everett, adjutant; Harry Anderson, chaplain; Stanley Basinger, service offi cer; and Garnette Foltz, historian.

May 21, 1987 – Offi cers for the Wayne Dailey VFW Post 6880 were installed. Harold Bell was installed as commander. Other offi cers were Robert Crow, quartermaster; Ralph Bible, senior vice commander; Randall Schroll, junior vice commander; Norman Edinger, adjutant; and Walter Williamson, three-year trustee. In other news that week, Bluffton residents Everett Collier and Conrad Gratz “participated in the bike Tour of the Scioto River Valley,” the newspaper reported. “The round trip tour, sponsored by the Youth Hostel of Columbus, covered 210 miles of the Scioto River valley. The bikers began in Columbus, rode to Portsmouth, then returned to Columbus. Almost 6,000 riders participated in this year’s trip.”

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by Kathryn Tschuor

The Village of Bluffton’s Town Council held a regular meeting at 8:00 p.m. on the night of May 14, 2012. No or-dinances or resolutions were discussed or voted on and the meeting was relatively brief.

Village Administrator James Mehaffi e announced that the village pool has plans to hire one head manager, three assistant managers and 21 lifeguards (the number of which may vary) for the 2012 pool season. Council listened to Mehaffi e and approved the swimming pool staff as pre-sented. In his written report to Council, Mehaffi e mentioned that the village’s service de-partment did some painting at the pool last week and in-tends to remove some fences there “to better utilize the ex-isting space for patrons.” If the weather cooperates, the pool is scheduled to be open on Memorial Day. The pool will be considered ‘open for the season’ a few days later on Thursday, May 31st. The hours for the pool this year are: Monday through Friday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Lap Swim from 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.), open 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sun-day: 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Mehaffi e then requested a motion from Council to ad-vertise for bids for the Cherry Street and Mound Street Wa-terline Replacement Proj-ect and also for the Grove, Jackson, and Lawn Waterline Replacement Project. Coun-cil granted his request. The

village plans to open bids in June and award a contract in July.

Finally, on April 25th the Village Planning Commis-sion met and voted to rec-ommend that the property located at 582 Harmon Road have its zoning classifi cation changed from R-1 to R-2. Mehaffi e brought this up to Council and it was agreed that a public hearing on the matter would be held on June 25th at 8:30 p.m. in the Town Hall (immediately following that night’s scheduled Coun-cil meeting). Mehaffi e said that the surrounding property owners would be notifi ed of the hearing in advance.

Next, Police Chief Skilli-ter asked Council to accept the resignation of Josh Tan-ner. Tanner found a commis-sion in eastern Ohio, which is where he wished to be locat-ed. Council agreed to accept Tanner’s resignation. Skilliter also asked that Council allow one of his offi cers to have an increase in hourly wage, which they agreed to do. Fi-nally, Skilliter announced that a Service of Remembrance would be held in honor of Of-fi cers Owen Grandstaff and Frank Herrmann immediately following the Council meet-ing.

Bluffton’s fi re chief, Jon Kinn, told Council that the department’s oldest engine is out of commission. They will be receiving a remanu-factured transmission for their 30-year-old fi re truck. The fi re department’s service truck will also be out for two

days while its heating and air conditioning are fi xed.

At the end of the meeting Council President Dennis Gallant made a motion to in-crease Village Administrator James Mehaffi e’s pay. Me-haffi e recently completed his MBA degree from Bluffton University. His new degree merits a pay increase. Coun-cil approved the motion and congratulated Mehaffi e on his accomplishment. Gallant then opened up the meeting to public commentary. Dick Boehr announced further progress on the restoration of Shannon Cemetery (lo-cated on St. Rt. 103). There is now a complete chart of every stone identifi ed (not all by name, some only by date). Boehr has a master photo of the cemetery and plans to ID every stone and their loca-tions on it. Boehr said that he would make another presen-tation to Council after the res-toration group talks to some people about their next step.

After some discussion of the success of the Bluffton Craft Show the Council meet-ing was adjourned. The Ser-vice of Remembrance for Of-fi cer Grandstaff and Offi cer Herrmann began immediately after.

The next scheduled meet-ing of the Village of Bluff-ton’s Town Council will be held on May 29, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. on the third fl oor of Town Hall. The meeting will be held on a Tuesday as a re-sult of Monday, May 28 being Memorial Day.

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The Longstanding Tradition of the Bluffton Sportsmen’s Club Trout Derby

Above is a photo from the Bluffton Sportsmen’s Club’s annual trout derby. The sign behind the crowd reads, “Bluffton Community Sportsmen’s Club.” The photo was taken in the late 50s or early 60s. It is from the collection of John E. Murray. Murray, who took the picture, identifi ed the announcer as Norm Triplett and the man with the cigar as Dave Risser.

The following is an excerpt from page C4 of the Thursday, December 20, 1984 Bluffton News.

by Roberta Biery

Growing up in a small town in the 1920s and 1930s was idyllic, and, if you were lucky enough to be born in Bluffton, there were, in addi-tion, unique experiences.

I have forgotten many things, but the remembrances of the cosmic joy of Harmon Field Day is not one of them.

On a fi ne day in May, the whole grammar school paraded down Main Street to Harmon Field. (I felt as if I were a celebrity as I waved to my father and grandfather who stood beaming outside the Bluffton News offi ce.)

There, after we sang May songs and wound ribbons around several Maypoles, we had a real feast.

Each grade had its own long picnic table, which our

mothers spread, each with her own special dish. I remember especially Ora Wetherill’s (my grandmother’s) fried chicken, Blanche Triplett’s potato salad, Luella Steiner’s angel-food cake, Zoe Hauenstein’s watermelon pickle.

Later, there were all kinds of games. In the third grade, with my partner, Betty Triplett (Caris), I won the three-legged race, my fi rst and only athletic triumph.

When we grew up and went to high school, the ban-quet which the junior class gave in honor of the seniors was a gala event. We juniors spent weeks making decora-tions from crepe paper, all the while making sure that the seniors did not fi nd out what the banquet’s theme was.

Programs were made in calligraphic writing under the direction of Geneva Blakesley (Rammel) and hundreds of crepe paper fl owers and streamers were woven togeth-er to make a false ceiling in the gymnasium.

On the evening of the ban-quet, the neighbors would sit on their front porches after their 5 p.m. supper and watch the couples walking down to the high school, dressed in

unaccustomed fi nery. (No teen-ager had a car

then, so we all walked. In ret-rospect, it’s exciting to have lived on Main Street before the era of the automobile; i.e., to have been a member of the “real” American heartland.)

The boys wore suits and ties and looked, generally, better-groomed even than they did when they went to church on Sunday.

The girls were all abso-lutely beautiful and hardly recognizable in long “formal” dresses, complemented by corsages, which had been pre-sented by their “dates” whose mothers had arranged for them with the fl orist, Elmer Short, days before.

At six p.m., the doors of the gymnasium were opened and the basketball court appeared, transformed into a Mexican patio.

I really don’t remember the menu but I’m sure it was one of Hazel Eversole’s best.

After dinner, there was a short program and then we drifted away in small groups.

A few went to a class-mate’s house and danced, rolling up the rugs and putting 78 rpm records on the phono-graph.

That was the era of the really great Big Bands of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Bunny Berrigan. There has never been better dance music.

Eventually, we walked home. (I never had to be back at any specifi c time, so my parents didn’t have to wait up for me to see that I came home safely. What harm could possibly come to me when they had known my “escort” since the day he was born and there was no need to let me in the house as no doors were ever locked.)

I remember vividly the smell of the honeysuckle that climbed the trellis beside the porch swing where several of us sat and talked over the exciting evening until long after midnight.

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‘Like the Joy of Harmon Field’ - May 16 Harmon Field Day

Photo of what could be a three-legged race. The picture was taken at Harmon Field around 1929.

The picture above was labeled “May Day Celebration at Harmon Field, Bluffton, Ohio.” The date of the picture is unknown. Photos provided by Dennis Morrison

The Village of Bluff-ton continues their Town Hall Concert Series in the historically restored ven-ue with a contra dance featuring the Cotton-wood Jam String Band from Bowling Green/To-ledo area and caller Barry Dupen of Ft. Wayne, IN., Sunday May 20, 7 p.m., Third Floor of the Town Hall (handicap accessi-ble), Main Street, Bluff-ton. We take donations for the performers at the door.

All are welcome, in-cluding children, singles, and non-dancers. Contra dance is a beginner-friendly form of social dance that is non-competitive, mod-erately aerobic and highly addictive. As a group, the main goal is to have fun rather than to be perfect dancers. Dancers of every skill level are welcome. A caller is provided to teach each dance in turn.

Cottonwood Jam String Band will play music for the evening, with a blend of traditional Old Time Appalachian, Folk, and Dance music. Cottonwood Jam String Band plays for many contra dances as well as concerts, weddings and other events. They are a blend of professionals from Northwest Ohio who come together with a fi ddle, gui-

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Spencer Cunningham teaches digital Photogra-phy at the University of Findlay and the Toledo Mu-seum of Art. He is carrying on his father’s tradition, who sang on the radio as a young man. Marty Clayton teaches special needs pre-schoolers in Grand Rapids, OH. She is secy. for the Northwest Ohio Traditional Music and Dance Associa-tion, which holds monthly contra/square dances dur-ing the school year. Cole Christensen hosts a weekly radio program of traditional string music on WBGU on the campus of Bowl-ing Green State University, and hosts an acoustic stage for music groups playing at the Black Swamp Arts

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BlufftonBAPTIST - 345 County Line Road. John

McMinn, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship service, 10:45 a.m.; Evening worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday - AWANA, Bible study and prayer service, 7 p.m.

ENGLISH LUTHERAN - 111 Grove St. Kevin Mohr, pastor. Worship, 9 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:15 a.m.

FIRST MENNONITE - 101 S. Jackson St. Steven Yoder, pastor. Louise Wideman, asso-ciate pastor. Christian Education, 9:15 a.m.; Worship, 10:30 a.m.

FIRST MISSIONARY - 247 N. Lawn Ave. Rev. Gary Marks, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m.; Thursday, prayer meeting, 7 p.m.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST - 116 Church St. Bryant Miller, pastor. Worship 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

PRESBYTERIAN - 112 N. Main St., Pastor Matthew Zuehlke. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - 223 W. College Ave. Rev. Carol Clements - Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:30 a.m.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC - 160 N. Spring St. Sister Carol Inkrott, pastoral leader. Saturday Mass, 4 p.m.; Sunday Mass 10 a.m.

TRI-COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF GOD - 835 N. Main St. Terry D. Hunt, pastor. Sunday: Christian education 9 a.m.; Worship, 10 a.m.; Evening service, 6:30 p.m.; Monday - Crossfi re Youth Alive, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, Lay Leadership Training Institute, Royal Rangers, M’Pact Girls Clubs, 7 p.m.

QUAKER MEETING - (Religious Society of Friends) 118 S. Spring St., Jon and Sally Weaver-Sommer residence; Sunday, 10 a.m., 1st, 2nd & 4th Sundays.

Rural BlufftonBETHEL CHURCH OF CHRIST - 4014

Co. Rd. 304, Ada. Minister, Brandon Mayden.Youth Minister, Mike Kupferer; Minister to Seniors, Harrison Underwood. Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; worship, 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.;

COUNTY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN - Tom Dearth, pastor. Ray Hadley, associate pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Evening worship, 7 p.m.

EBENEZER MENNONITE - Corner Columbus Grove-Phillips Roads. Dick Potter, senior pastor, Jim King, co-pastor. Wade Slechter, pastor of student ministries. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10:15 a.m.

EMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - 8375 Phillips Rd. Eric Rummel, pastor. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m.

PLEASANT VIEW CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN - Thayer Road, a mile south of St. Rt. 30. Mark Bowyer, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.

RILEY CREEK BAPTIST - Corner Hancock CR 12 and Orange TR 27. David Lanquist, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Evening worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday prayer and praise, 7 p.m.

BLUFFTON TRINITY UMC - 2022 St. Rte. 103 Pastor Wade Melton. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. worship 10:15 a.m. Jenera

TRINITY LUTHERAN - 301 N. Main St., Jenera. Alois Schmitzer III, and Jeffrey Bolwerk, pastors. Worship, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; Christian education, 9:20 a.m. Trinity Lutheran School, grades preschool through 8th grade. An extra service will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. thru August 17.

ST. PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN (ELCA) - 9340 Twp. Rd. 32, rural Jenera. Steven Edmiston, pastor. Phillip Riegle, youth ministry coordinator. Traditional worship, 7:45 and 9 a.m., contemporary worship, 11:15 a.m., Sunday school, 10:15 a.m.

JENERA UMC - Pastor Wade Melton.Worship 9:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Mt. Cory

MT. CORY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Jerry Lewis, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.

PLEASANT VIEW UNITED METHODIST - Twp. Rd. 37. Jerry Lewis, pastor. Sunday school 10:30 a.m.; worship, 9:15 a.m. Rawson

GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP - Pastor David Leman- Corner of County Rd. 37 & CR 313. Web Address: www.gospelfellowshipgfc.org. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.; Monday Youth 7-8:30 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study/Prayer Meeting 7-8:00 p.m.

NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST -208 N. Main St. Mark Burden -Interim Pastor.

Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m.

TRINITY UNITED - South Main, Terry Ream, pastor. Worship, 10 a.m.; Wednesday, Bible study, 7 p.m.

BeaverdamCHURCH OF CHRIST - 308 E. Main

St. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship and Jr. church, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening service, 7 p.m.; Tuesday evening Bible study, 7 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meeting/ Bible Study, 7:30 p.m. at Richland Manor.

ROCKPORT UNITED METHODIST - 5505 Rockport Road, Columbus Grove. Greg Coleman, pastor. Worship, 9 a.m.; Church school, 10 a.m.

Pandora, GilboaGILBOA UNITED METHODIST - 102

Franklin St. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Chapel Belles Boutique and Etc Shop open Thursdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.

GRACE MENNONITE - 502 East Main St., Pandora. Dennis Schmidt, pastor. Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.

PANDORA CHURCH OF CHRIST - Steve Holbrook, minister. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m. Missionary - 300 Rocket Ridge. Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m.

RILEY CREEK UNITED METHODIST - Corner Road M and Road 7-L. Mark Hollinger, pastor. Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 a.m.

ST. JOHN MENNONITE - 15988 Road 4, Pandora. D. Lynn Thompson, preaching and teaching pastor. Dave Stratton, leadership/dis-cipleship pastor. Grace Burkholder, children & family minitries. Paul Ginther, youth director. Worship, 8:30 and 11 a.m.; Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6 p.m.: Adult cell group ministry, kids’ choirs; Wednesday, 7 p.m.: POW (Prayer on Wednesday) for adults, Pioneer Club for 3 years old- 6th grade, junior high & senior high youth ministries.

PANDORA UNITED METHODIST - 108 E. Washington St. Duane Kemerley, pastor. Sunday school, 8:30 a.m.; Worship, 9:30 a.m.

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesi-astes 3:1.

This spring has been magnifi cent. In nearly two decades of living in Northwest Ohio, I don’t recall one as beautiful. The warm sunny days have enticed people onto the streets, walking, running, pushing babies in strollers, and riding bicycles until dark. At night the stars and planets have been particularly vivid and the air warm enough to linger and gaze at their beauty. This strange weather compels complete strangers to smile and speak to each other. These aren’t the typical gray damp days of spring!

A number of times recently I’ve had the same conversation with complete strangers in elevators or standing in a check out line. One person begins with, “Wow, isn’t this weather wonderful? It’s so warm!” Someone else pipes in, “Yep! But I feel confused about what season we are in. All week it has been warm and now it is cool - the other day felt like summer and today feels like fall...”

There is a pause until someone breaks the silence... “I’m worried... what about sum-mer? What are we going to have then?”

By this time the elevator door opens or the line shifts and the conversation is broken, hanging in space between cheerful optimism and anticipatory worry.

The calendar tells us it is spring, but this year we have fl uctuated between several seasons and times.

Qohelet, the preacher in the Book of Ecclesiastes, speaks of this betwixt and between experience. This small passage of scripture sums up one portion of his message to the assembly: for everything there is a season, a time. Later, Qohelet goes on with an unset-tling conclusion: we don’t know for sure which season or time we are in. He doesn’t offer instruction about how we are to cope during this life on earth, no optimistic hope about a future reality. He only shares a harsh reality of the human experience: that we live in an uncertain time between birth and death. No wonder that the Book of Ecclesiastes barely made it into the scriptures!

While this uncertainty is a part of life, we are placed in community with others who share our joys and sorrows, our dilemmas and celebrations. There is very little “new un-der the sun” that others have not also experienced. Friends (and even strangers) provide wisdom when we seek it. The guidance of the One who knows us best is always available and often manifest through others.

Although we may not always feel sure where we are, or which season we are in, the Divine Presence abides with us, companioning and sustaining us, through the darkness and in the light. No place in life or death is beyond the Divine embrace that enfolds us and keeps us, now and in the time to come.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

Elizabeth Kelly, MDiv, MSWChaplain, Blanchard Valley and Bluffton Hospitals

For Everything There is a Season

Bluffton High School Baccalaureate ServiceBluffton High School Baccalaureate ServiceSunday, May 20th, 2012Sunday, May 20th, 2012

7:30 p.m.7:30 p.m.at the home of Jon and Janice Basingerat the home of Jon and Janice Basinger

4080 E. Hook-Waltz Road 4080 E. Hook-Waltz Road (corner of Hook-Waltz and Mayberry)(corner of Hook-Waltz and Mayberry)

Cottonwood Jam String Band to Play in Bluffton Sunday, May 20th

Left to right: Marty Clayton, Cole Christiansen, Spencer Cunningham, Renata Burgett, Tahree Lane

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Marissa Schutz Winner of Barbara Fleming Scholarship

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Lions ClubMembers meet every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at noon.

Bluffton American Legion Post 382Members meet every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Sportsmen’s Club, 405 N. Spring St. Bluffton, Ohio.

Weight WatchersMembers meet at 5:45p.m. each Monday evening at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

Overeaters Anonymous Members meet at 9a.m. each Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church

TOPS ClubMembers meet at 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday evening at St. John’s United Church of Christ

ACT: Citizen’s Action GroupMembers meet the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at noon at Common Grounds.

Bluffton Boy ScoutsTroop 256 meets every Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the third fl oor of Town Hall, Main Street.

Creative WritersMembers meet the second Monday of each month (September through May) at 2:00 p.m. in the Maple Crest lounge.

Garden Study ClubMembers meet the fourth Wednesday (March through June) at 7:30 p.m. at Maple Crest Patio Room.

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Bluff ton Hospital Birth Announcements

Jase Wesley RodabaughMay 8, 2012

Parent: Cody & Maggie RodabaughSex: Male

Length: 20 inches Weight: 7 lbs. 9 oz

Resides in Harrod, Ohio

Ethan Tate Hoffman May 10, 2012

Parent: Heath & Deanne Sex: Male

Length: 19 1/2 inches Weight: 7 lbs. 14 oz

Resides in Bluffton, Ohio

Happy Birthday!

May 17Lois BenrothRichard JordanJohn Templin

May 18Justin ClarkJohn JonesHelen WinklerCarol BrooksBrett Buller

May 19Nathaniel StaleyRaymond ScolesEmily MarshallKassandra Bishop

May 20Brenda ByersPat Motter

May 21Mike GleasonJames HauensteinGary StewartBrandon BestRebecca Winebar

May 22Kristy

SchweingruberAudrey MarshallEarl Lehman

May 23Justin BishopMadison

HoltgrevenMary EikenbaryJay BerryRebecca Carr

May 17—Cancer Support Group Maple

Crest 3PMBluffton Senior Citizens Board

Mtg 1:30PMS.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club -

CommonGrounds, noon

May 18—BU W Softball NCAA National

Tournament TBABU Orientation and registra-

tion for new students, 8:15 a.m.-5 p.m.

May 19—BU W Softball NCAA National

Tournament TBA

May 20—Bluffton Schools Jazz Band

Concert 2PMBU W Softball NCAA

National Tournament TBA

May 21—Creative Writers Meeting -

Maple Crest 2 - 4PMWeight Watchers - St Mary’s

Church 5:45PMBU W Softball NCAA

National Tournament TBABluffton Club 56 - For 5th &

6th Graders 3:15PM @ Bluffton Campus Life Room

Bluffton/Pandora Club JV Campus Life - For 7th & 8th Graders 8-9PM @ BCLR

May 22— TOPS - St. Johns UCC 6:30PMBoy Scouts 7-8:30PMBluffton Schools Music Awards

Banquet 7PMBU W Softball NCAA National

Tournament TBABluffton/Pandora Campus Life

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May 23—BFR Senior Health & Fitness

DayBluffton Elementary School

Make-up Field DayBluffton Breakfast Club - 7:15-

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Community Calendar

The Lafayette Jackson Historical Society is sponsoring a The Lafayette Jackson Historical Society is sponsoring a garage & bake sale on Saturday, May 26, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. garage & bake sale on Saturday, May 26, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Pure Oil gas station in Lafayette. Food for sale. Donated at the Pure Oil gas station in Lafayette. Food for sale. Donated

items may be brought to the station on Friday, May 25, 4:00 p.m. items may be brought to the station on Friday, May 25, 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. No shoes, clothing or toys, please.to 8:00 p.m. No shoes, clothing or toys, please.

Oma V. Harris, age 92, of Mt. Cory, Ohio, died at 9:28 a.m. Saturday, May 12, 2012 at the Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. Oma was born on May 14, 1919 in Mt. Blanchard, Ohio to John A. and Vere (Bishop) Saul. She married John Wesley Har-ris on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945 and he preceded her in death on March 6, 1997. Oma is survived by daugh-ters, Jonella V. (Jack) Wil-liams, Ada, Ohio; Nadine S. (Gary) Wagner, Ada, Ohio; sons, Joel B. (Donna) Har-ris, Carey, Ohio; and Neal A. (Julie) Harris, Mt. Cory, Ohio; ten grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; a brother, Gwen R. (Katie) Saul, Find-

lay; and a sister-in-law, Doris Saul, Avon Lake, Ohio. She was preceded in death by brothers, Keith B. Saul, Van J. Saul, and Von A. Saul; sis-ters, Twila O. Pringle, Thora M. Kille and Reathel E. Al-liman; and a son-in-law, Bob Marshall.

Oma was a 1937 graduate of Findlay High School and Riggs LaMar Beauty School, Wheeling, West, Virginia. She worked in beauty shops in Wheeling, Findlay, and Dayton. She also worked in the offi ce of Lowe Broth-ers Paint Factory in Dayton before returning to Findlay to work in the calculating department of the Ohio Oil Company (now Marathon) until she married. In 1962 she was honored as Hancock County Mother of the Year by the Findlay Area Chamber of Commerce. She was ac-tive in Cory Rawson P.T.A. and Music Boosters, Una Terra CCL, Hancock County Homemakers Chorus, and District WSWS in the United Methodist Church. She was a member of Pleasant View United Methodist Church, Bluffton, and its Harmony Circle. She also attended County Line Church of the

Brethren and was a mem-ber of First Church of God, Eustis, Florida. She along with her husband, had been members of Umatilla, Florida Shuffl e Board Club, Bluffton and Pandora Shuffl eboard Club, Hancock County Farm Bureau and the Union Neigh-bors Farm Bureau Council. Oma was a homemaker and prayer warrior for her family and friends.

Visitation hours were 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at the Kirkpatrick-Behnke Funeral Home, 500 Lima Avenue. The service began at 11:00 a.m. Wednes-day, May 16, at the grave-side at Pleasant View United Methodist Church. Pastors Jerry Lewis, David Thomp-son and Thomas Dearth of-fi ciated. Memorials may be made to Pleasant View Unit-ed Methodist Church, 303 County Road 37; Bluffton, Ohio 45817 or County Line Church of the Brethren, 4227 North Hardin Road; Harrod, Ohio 45850.

Online condolences to the family may be expressed at www.kirkpatrickbehnke.com

Oma V. HarrisObituariesObituaries

Marissa Schutz, a Pando-ra-Gilboa High School se-nior, is the 2012 winner of the Barbara Fleming Memo-rial Scholarship sponsored by Mennonite Home Com-

munities of Ohio, (MHCO), Bluffton.

Schutz is the daughter of John and Marcia Schutz. This annual award provides scholarship support to a stu-dent pursuing a degree as a Licensed Practical Nurse, a Registered Nurse or a Bach-elor of Science in Nursing.

Barbara Fleming, in whose honor the scholar-ship is made possible, a resi-dent of Mennonite Memo-rial Home from 1997-2000, was trained as a nurse and throughout her life exhibited the caring nature that char-acterizes the profession of nursing.

Schutz plans to attend ei-ther Indiana Wesleyan Uni-versity or Mount Vernon Nazarene University this fall.

Megan Marie Koch, of Elida, and Ryan David Dunlap, of Bluffton, wish to announce their engage-ment. Their wedding is to take place on July 7, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. at Ebene-zer Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio.

Megan is the daughter of Paul & Diane Koch, of Elida, Ohio. She is a grad-uate of Elida High School and Bluffton University. Megan is currently a substitute teacher in area schools.

Ryan is the son of Dave & Deb Dunlap, of Elida, Ohio. He gradu-ated from Bluffton High School and Huntington University. Ryan is em-ployed at Bluffton El-ementary School as a fi rst grade teacher.

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Rockport United Methodist Church will Rockport United Methodist Church will hold their annual Memorial Day service hold their annual Memorial Day service on Monday, May 28, 2012. The service on Monday, May 28, 2012. The service

will start at 11:00 a.m. in the cemetery and will start at 11:00 a.m. in the cemetery and will progress to the Church. The guest will progress to the Church. The guest speaker will be Greg Coleman, Pastor speaker will be Greg Coleman, Pastor

of Cairo and Rockport United Methodist of Cairo and Rockport United Methodist Churches.Churches.

The church is located at 5505 Rockport The church is located at 5505 Rockport Road, Columbus Grove, Ohio.Road, Columbus Grove, Ohio.Everyone is welcome to attend.Everyone is welcome to attend.

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On what turned out to be a beautiful spring day, Saturday’s (May 12) Arts and Crafts Show drew a large number of people to downtown Bluffton. The show was sponsored by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. CEO Fred Steiner said the Chamber was very pleased with Saturday’s turnout as this year’s show had more vendors than the year before. The date of next year’s Arts and Crafts Show is yet to be determined.

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David Sycks and a number of Bluffton High School musicians helped provide some musical entertain-ment on Saturday morning.

Marian Kissling and Peg Murphy work together to serve up some delicious doughnuts in front of the Bluffton Senior Center.

J Denny Beaver was on hand and passed out candy to anyone with a sweet tooth.

Mike Gerken of Hard Rock Llamas Co., of Ada, shows one of their llamas to a number of children. Dan Stratton was visited by many customers drawn in by the colorful display at Stratton Greenhouses’ stand.

Pumpkin Vine Railroad engineer Greg Futrell, of Arcadia, offered free train rides to kids throughout the day.

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Girls Results:This year the girls team

has been improving every day and coach Denny Phillips has to be pleased to see they are building momentum just in time to go to district. If they can continue injury free they have a good chance of leav-ing their mark over the next few weeks at regional’s and hopefully in Columbus at the State Meet.

Hannah Chappell-Dick destroyed the NWC 800m re-cord set in 1997 by Bluffton native, Ann (Stechschulte) Alyanak. Chappell-Dick who ran a 2:15.91 broke the old re-cord of 2:19.1, but that wasn’t all she accomplished, she also took fi rst place in the 1600m run with a time of 5:32.26.

Also setting a record was Lydia Guagenti who tied the NWC High Jump record for a second time with a jump of 5’6”. Guagenti tied it with the same height in 2009. Gua-genti also put up some great times to capture points for the Pirates by placing third in the 200m dash (27.13) and third in the 400m dash (59.29), but the excitement really comes when Guagenti and Chappell-Dick run with Julie Althaus and Jill Steinmetz in two relays. This team usu-ally fi nds themselves in the top spots and did so again this week winning the 4x400m relay (4:09.99) and placing second in the 4x800m relay (10:30.93).

Althaus continues to show improvement and determi-nation in her 1600m placing fourth (5:40.82) and in the 800m taking sixth. Stein-metz, who is in four events, isn’t one to shy away from a challenge, running a strong 400m (1:02.9) she took sixth place and then helped her team get points in the 4x200 relay( 1:51.26) placing fi fth along with Amber Rayl, Kar-li Leugers and Alaina Bixel. Bixel, who is a sprinter and has only run track this year as a senior, surprised herself

by beating Kelli Ley of Spen-cerville to win the 100m dash (13.01) and also placed sixth in the 200m (27.54).

In fi eld events Lindsey Buettner grabbed second place in the Pole Vault with a height of 9’06” and Ava Yo-akam placed sixth with 9’0”. Amber Rayl took fourth in the Long Jump (15’01”) and Kayla Edgington placed fourth in the Discus (96’05”) and seventh in the Shot Put (29’04.25”).

Team rankings: Spencer-ville 163.5, Bluffton 113, Co-lumbus Grove 87, Jefferson 69.5, LCC 55, Crestview 48, Paulding 35, Allen East 33, Lincolnview 32, and Ada 25.

Boys Results:The boys team fought hard

but was edged out by Spen-cerville at the NWC ending up in third place. The Pirates did well in the distance and fi eld events, but some minor injuries kept the relays and sprints from gaining points.

Senior, Lucas Harnish was a four time, fi rst place win-ner for the boys capturing the number one spot in the 800m (2:04.66) and in the 1600m (4:32.86). He also helped

his team of Stephen Tatar-kov, Andrew Hoff, and Ellis Barnes win the 4x800m relay (8:27.22). Harnish wasn’t done for the day and sprinted in the 4x400m relay with Ke-shaun Hughes, Logan Stein-gass, and Noah Stratton win-ning with a time of 3:34.24.

Noah Stratton also led the fi eld in the 400m dash taking fi rst (52.07) while Steingass grabbed fi fth (53.88). N. Stratton, Steingass, N. Little and Hughes took fi fth in the 4x100 (46.17) relay and fi fth in the 4x200. Distance run-ners Ellis Barnes placed sixth in the 800m run (2:08.92) and Jonathan Nisly placed eighth in the 1600m (4:52.41).

In fi eld events Logan Skel-ly tied for third in the Long Jump with 5’08”, Chase Wil-son placed third in the Pole Vault with a PR of 13’06”, and Kyle Risner grabbed fourth in the Shot Put with a throw of 45’06.5”.

Team rankings: Columbus Grove 140, Spencerville 85, Bluffton 82.5, Crestview 74, LCC 71, Lincolnview 55.5, Jefferson 54, Ada 34, Allen East 32.5, Paulding 23.5

Pirate Baseball Season Ends With Losses to Arcadia, P-G

Julie Althaus runs her leg of a relay Photo by Scott Hoff

Lady Pirates Take Second, Boys Third at NWC Meet

by Julie StrattonThe Pirate baseball team

ended their season with a tough 10-9 loss to Arcadia at home. The squad fi nished the year with a 5-18 record overall and a 2-7 mark in Northwest Conference play.

Tuesday, Pandora-Gilboa

downed Bluffton 5-1 in a regular season baseball game in Putnam County. Bluffton scored the lone run in the top of the sixth to make it 3-1 Rockets, but PG tacked on two additional runs in the bottom of the frame. Na-than Risner took the loss for the Pirates, now 5-17 on the

year. Jordan Skilliter dou-bled and singled and Trent Phillips had two singles for the Pirates.

Sophomore Chris Mc-Clain and seniors Matt Gil-lett and Jeremy Basinger were named Honorable Mention Northwest Confer-ence in voting by coaches.

The boys tennis team headed into tournament ac-tion at the University of Northwestern Ohio courts this past week needing to in-dividually place in the top 4 of either singles or doubles to advance to the District Meet. Michael Deter won his fi rst two matches, but fell in the quarterfi nal match ending the fi ne Pirate sea-son.

Michael won a mara-

thon fi rst match against St Mary’s Jason Freewalt 6-7 (7-2), 6-0, 7-6 (9-7). The junior then advanced to the quarters with a 6-3, 6-3 vic-tory over Celina’s Hagan Kriegel. Ottawa-Glandorf’s Alex Schroeder knocked out Michael with a 6-1, 6-1 win. Schroeder went on to take third place. Nathan Diller also won his fi rst round match by 6-1, 6-1 score over Lima Central Catholic’s Michael Shanahan. Nathan then fell 6-0, 6-0 to sec-

tional champ Johnny Rut-ter of Shawnee. Matt Deter dropped his opening match to LCC’s Dylan Niese, 7-6 (7-5), 2-6, 6-1.

In doubles action, Kory Enneking and Aaron Bas-inger lost 6-1, 6-1 to Celi-na’s Walls and Seibel. Nick Slinger and Justin Paul also fell in opening round action by a score of 6-0, 6-1.

The team comprised of mainly juniors fi nished the season with a 10-4 record on the season.

Errors End Tournament Hopes for Pirate Softball

By the second inning of the Sectional fi nal softball game against Kenton, it was raining. But for the Pirate defense, a snowball effect began to take effect from the start of the contest. BHS committed an uncharacter-istic six errors in a 7-1 loss to Kenton. The night was equally as rough at the plate, as the Pirates made decent contact, with seven hits, but the Wildcat defense were seemingly everywhere at all times snagging line drives and making plays. Kenton improved to 12-9 on the year, Bluffton stands 13-7.

Kenton’s fi rst run came in the bottom of the fi rst after the fi rst error of the game on a routine grounder put a Wildcat on fi rst base. The runner stole second and catcher MacKayla Wilson’s accurate throw to second skipped into the outfi eld, al-lowing the runner to score all the way from fi rst. The

Pirates tied it quickly in the top of the second as Lexi Lu-gibihl reached on error and advanced to second on a sac-rifi ce bunt by Olivia Hunt. Kayla Longworth scooted to fi rst on an error and as the throw got away, Lugibihl scored from second base.

Kenton scored four times in the bottom of the third to make it 5-1. KHS loaded the bases on a double, single and a walk with no outs. A single to right brought home a run and kept the bases juiced. Longworth struck out the next batter, but walked in a run on the next batter to make it 3-1. An infi eld er-ror allowed two more runs to score to make it 5-1. The Pi-rates responded in the fourth as Adrian Rumer doubled to the left fi eld fence and Anna Crisps singled to center, but both were stranded at in-ning’s end. In the bottom of the fourth, all three outfi eld-ers had put outs to thwart another Kenton scoring op-portunity with two runners

on base. Lugibihl made a great running stab in right, Hunt caught a hard liner and Crisp snagged a fl y ball deep in the left fi eld corner to end the threat. Kenton tacked on two more runs in the sixth behind two walks and a dou-ble that cleared the bases.

“Give credit to them (Kenton), they came to play but I really felt as we were equal teams. Tonight it just wasn’t happening. When you play defense like we did tonight, it’s tough to win,” coach Dan Gillett said. Gil-lett said one thing that af-fected his team was their in-ability to practice this week due to poor fi eld conditions. “This is a different game without our errors.”

The Pirates have one more regular season game to play Friday against Blanchard Valley Confer-ence Champion Arlington, at home. “We want to go out with a win,” Gillett com-mented.

Boys Tennis Season Ends in Sectionals Play at UNOH

Isaac Little runs the 100 in prelims Photo by Scott Hoff

by Sam Brauen

Matt Gillett diving back to fi rst base Photo by Belinda Stevens

Pandora’s Abe Basinger slides under the tag of Bluffton’s Jeremy Basinger Photo by Belinda Stevens

Michael Deter (left) and Nick Slinger (right) in Sectional play

by Sam Brauen

by Sam Brauen

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Matt Ellerbrock from Putnam Co. Board of DD’s team throwing the mini-javelin.

by Sam Brauen

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Six Bluffton University softball players were recent-ly honored by the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Confer-ence coaches for their play this season. Freshman Katie Clark (New Palestine, Ind.) and junior Shelby Wade (Delaware/Buckeye Valley) both earned fi rst team honors for the Beavers. Senior Chel-sie Osborne (Chillicothe/Wa-verly) along with freshmen Megan Patton (Waynesfi eld/Perry) and Lindsay Robert-son (Cincinnati/Northwest) were selected to the second team while senior Emily Manahan (Columbus/Bishop Watterson) was named hon-orable mention All-HCAC.

Katie Clark capped off the best freshman campaign in Bluffton University softball history when she was named First Team All-Heartland Conference. Her conference marks of 27 hits, a .519 bat-ting average and a .554 on-base percentage were all tops in the HCAC. She racked up 45 total bases (3rd), an .865 slugging percentage (4th), 15 runs (4th), seven doubles (5th) and three home runs (6th).

Overall, Clark smacked a conference-best 58 hits, including a school-record 19 doubles. She also led the HCAC in total bases (97) and slugging percentage (.719). Her .483 on-base percentage was second only to Anderson leadoff slapper and fellow fi rst team All-HCAC honor-ee Katie Lee. Clark fi nished 3rd in hitting (.430), 4th with 30 RBI and 5th in home runs (6) and runs scored (28).

In just one season, Clark has already made her mark on the Bluffton single-sea-son record book. Her 19 two-baggers shattered the previ-ous record of 14 doubles by Allison Lange set in 2004. Clark equaled Lindsey Mill-er’s school record with 97 total bases and she came up just short (58) of the 60 hits Miller drilled in 2009. The .719 slugging percentage by Clark is the third-highest in Bluffton history while her .483 on-base percentage is ninth all-time. She is third for a single-season with six bombs while her 30 RBI and 29 runs scored are both in the top 10 for the Beavers. In addition, Clark’s 19 doubles already has her tied for 11th on the career list, nearly half-way to Lange’s school mark of 39 two-baggers.

Junior Shelby Wade over-came early season struggles at the dish to earn her fi rst All-Heartland Conference award this season. The smooth cen-

terfi elder recorded 52 put-outs to go along with three assists. She hit .317 with four doubles, 10 walks and 26 hits. Wade fi nished with 13 stolen bases in just 15 at-tempts, placing her ninth all-time for a single season. She put together a .391 on-base percentage, third best on the team behind Clark and senior standout receiver Meagan Price (Toledo/Springfi eld) who drew a Bluffton record 30 walks this year and 78 for her career. Wade’s nine sto-len bases in conference play was the fourth-highest total in the HCAC. Wade was also named to the HCAC All-Sportsmanship Team.

Collecting her third piece of All-HCAC hardware was senior Chelsie Osborne. A two-year honorable mention selection at shortstop as a freshman and sophomore, Osborne moved to second base as a junior and into left fi eld for her fi nal campaign. She leaves Bluffton with a school-record 173 hits after she passed Lindsey Miller’s mark of 171 at the Heartland Conference tournament last weekend. Osborne ranks in the top 10 all-time at Bluffton with 222 total bases (2nd), 95 RBI (3rd), 94 runs (3rd), 39 stolen bases (3rd), .341 batting average (4th), .438 slugging percentage (7th), 23 doubles (5th), four triples (5th), six home runs (6th). She is tops all time with 507 at bats and 161 games played and her 159 games started is second to fellow senior Em-ily Manahan who started 160 contests.

Osborne had her fi nest season for the Beavers in 2012. She fi nished with 50 hits (6th all-time), 28 runs scored (8th all-time) and 70 total bases (7th all-time). Os-borne was a perfect 8-of-8 on stolen bases, executed nine sacrifi ce bunts and pounded out 11 doubles (6th all-time).

In addition to manning the hot corner for the Beavers, freshman Lindsay Robertson hit in the middle of Bluff-ton’s lineup all season. She poked 11 doubles, tying her for 6th all-time on the single-season list at Bluffton. Her 41 hits (12th all-time) gave the Beavers four ladies with over 40 safeties in the same season, only the second time in school history (2009) that feat has been accomplished. Robertson scored 24 runs, drove in 22 and slugged .442 with a .375 on-base percent-age.

One half of Bluffton’s dynamic freshmen pitch-ing duo, Megan Patton was

named second team All-Heartland Conference for her overpowering work in the circle. She was the best in the HCAC in confer-ence contests with a .182 opponent batting average. Patton’s 1.64 ERA and 39 strikeouts were both third in conference contests. Overall, Patton led the HCAC with a 2.05 ERA and was second with a .204 opponent bat-ting average, 130.0 innings pitched, 21 games started and 21 strikeouts looking. She was third with 11 wins and 89 punchouts. Patton’s 4.79 strikeouts per seven innings meshed beautifully with freshman Chloe Shell’s (Covington) 0.48 walks per seven innings, or less than one free pass over the course of two complete games. The two phenoms combined for 21 wins, 17 complete games, fi ve shutouts and a 2.09 ERA.

Picking up her second All-Heartland Conference honor was senior Emily Ma-nahan who was a fi rst team selection as a sophomore. She started every contest she played in, a Bluffton record 160 games. Manahan racked up 450 at bats (4th all-time), 142 hits (5th all time), 22 doubles (8th all-time), 75 RBI (5th all-time), 173 total bases (6th all-time) and 38 walks (7th all-time). Mana-han also left her mark with the following career num-bers: .316 batting average, .384 slugging percentage, .374 on-base percentage and 54 runs scored. Defensively, Manahan leaves Bluffton #1 all-time with 1103 chances and 1036 putouts, while her .980 fi elding percentage is 6th all-time. Manahan hit .331 with 27 RBI (10th all-time), 12 runs scored, four doubles and a homer this season.

For the sixth consecutive season under Coach Brud-er’s leadership, the Bluff-ton University softball team qualifi ed for the Heartland Conference tournament. The Beavers are the only school in the conference with that on its resume since the HCAC went to a four-team format in 2007. Bluffton has fi nished lower than second during the regular season just one time in the past fi ve years as the Beavers wrapped up their third straight 11-5 mark after going 12-4 in 2009 and 13-3 in 2008.

Katie Clark and Shelby Wade Named First Team All-Heartland Conference

Bluffton University soph-omore Matt Weisenborn (Bowling Green/Otsego) capped his fi rst season of collegiate tennis by being named honorable mention All-Heartland Conference. The Beavers returned to the hard courts following a two-year hiatus for both the men and women.

Weisenborn opened the season at #3 singles and moved up to #2 before as-

suming the #1 slot when an injury to A.J. Haley (Wilm-ington) slowed Bluffton’s top singles player. Despite play-ing competitive tennis for the fi rst time ever, he picked up a pair of doubles victories with fellow two-sport ath-lete Jaden August (Bluffton). Weisenborn, also a member of the Bluffon men’s basket-ball team, was victorious at St. Francis in one of his three matches at #2 singles before

moving into the #1 position.Also recognized follow-

ing the 2012 season was se-nior Nate Stroud (Troy/Troy Christian) who was selected to the All-Sportsmanship Team. Stroud and Jon Cun-ningham (Negley/East Pal-estine) were the only two returning members from Bluffton’s 2009 men’s tennis team, the last year that the Beavers fi elded a squad.

Matt Weisenborn Named Honorable Mention All-HCAC

Athletes from Auglaize, Allen, Hancock, Hardin, two teams from Putnam, and Van Wert Counties competed in the Ohio Special Olympics Area 3 track and fi eld meet

Saturday, May 12, at Bluff-ton University’s Salzman Stadium. There were around 200 athletes competing all together. Athletes who par-ticipate in the district meet

on Saturday qualify for the State Games, regardless of their place. The state games will be held at OSU in Co-lumbus June 22-24.

Recently the Ohio High School Athletic Association approved a recommendation to add a seventh tournament division for football starting in 2013. The plan will place the top 10 percent of schools based on enrollment in Divi-sion 1, with the remaining 644 schools divided evenly among the next six divisions. Each of the seven divisions will continue to qualify 32 teams to the tournament.

Currently, Bluffton is one of the smallest schools in Division 5, but under the new setup, they would be in the middle of Division 6 (using current enrollment fi gures). Every two years, the OHSAA analyzes new enrollment fi gures so things could change slightly, but barring a wildly different

class size the Pirates will be in Division 6 come 2013. So who else is likely to be in Division 6 along with BHS? Area teams that are comfort-ably in the guidelines of 114-158 boys are Lima Central Catholic, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Wayne Trace, Van Buren, Carey, Spencerville, Allen East, Riverdale, St. Henry, Columbus Grove and Crestview. Coldwater is two boys from moving to Divi-sion 5 and Ada is 1 boy from moving to Division 7. Again, the fi nal divisions will be de-termined when 2012 enroll-ment numbers are turned in later this year.

As far as the Northwest Conference goes, almost all teams would be in Division 6. Paulding will be in Divi-sion 5 as the largest confer-ence school and Ada will likely be in Division 7. For

local readers, Cory-Rawson and Pandora-Gilboa squads would both drop down to Di-vision 7 for playoff games.

The current six division setup has been in place since 1994. In the 18 years of the existence of Division 6, a Northwest Ohio high school has won the state title 14 times. The four other years, a Northwest Ohio school has played for the state title but lost. State champions include Columbus Grove, Hardin Northern, Marion Local, Delphos St Johns and St. Henry.

As a fi nal note, when the Pirates traveled down the playoff path in 1991 to the State Finals, there were only fi ve divisions at the time and they were in the smallest division. The fi ve division setup was created in 1980.

In the fi nale of the softball season, the Pirates did just as Coach Gillett said they would. Bluffton came back late in the game to down state ranked Arlington 7-6 at home. Senior Ashlin Gable had the game winning hit in the bottom of the sixth,

bringing the Pirates back from a 5-2 defi cit. Fellow senior Kayla Longworth fi t-tingly struck out one Red Devil batter and fi elded two ground balls for putouts to Gable to end the season, and their successful careers together. Gable and Long-

worth are the only two se-niors on the squad. Kylee Barnett and Katie Palte each had two hits for the Pirates who fi nish the year with a 14-7 record. Arlington fell to 18-5.

Ottawa Legion Baseball will conduct tryouts for the upcoming 2012 season on Saturday, May 19th at 10:00 AM, at Memorial Field in Ottawa, Ohio. Any player (grade 9-12) who does not turn 20 years old before De-cember 31, 2012 is eligible.

Camp instructors will in-clude Ottawa Legion Head

Coach Todd Schimmoeller, assistant coaches Clay Maas, Mick Meyer and Chris Pec-ora. Special guest instructors will include area high school and college coaches.

Players who are inter-ested in playing, but unable to attend the fi rst practice/tryout should contact Coach Schimmoeller at 419-290-

0862 or Dave Kersh at 419-235-6302. Players who are still involved in high school tournament are excused from practice. For more informa-tion about the 2012 season, including future practice times, log on to:

www.ottawalegionbase-ball.com

Ottawa Legion Baseball Preseason Camp to Open Sat.

Bluffton Hosts Regional Special Olympic Track and Field Events

Errors End BHS Softball Season

OHSAA to Add Seventh Football Division, BHS Likely to Move Down

An athlete from Hancock Co. winding up for the softball throw.

Female athletes competing in the 100 meter dash. Photo Submitted by Audrey Beining

Th e Bluff ton News Th ursday, May 17, 2012

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For the second time in three weeks, spectators at Limaland Motorsports Park were treated to Double Fea-tures due to a rain shortened evening dating back to the April 20th Season Opening Shootout. The touring NRA Sprint Invaders provided the competitors, with the series defending champion and a Michigan invader taking the coveted checkered fl ags.

The night began with the fi rst of the NRA Sprints 25-lap showcases. California native Randy Hannagan pro-ceeded to take full advantage of the preferred outside front row starting grid. “I had a great starting spot up front on the outside,” he said. “But nonetheless, this car is a treat to drive and a lot of fun.”

Hannagan grabbed the lead through the event’s opening circuit and never surrendered it. Veteran racers Kyle Sauder and Darren Long held the outside starting posi-tions in the second and third rows. They produced some exciting side-by-side action until the yellow fl ag came out when all-time leading Limal-and Motorsports Park sprints winner Tim Allison suffered a mechanical break after 8 laps.

When green fl ag racing resumed, Hannagan again moved to the front, but this time Darren Long was able to put some pressure on him on the outside. Although Long was never able to take over the lead, the action at the front was spirited until an-other caution fl ag brought the fi eld of cars back together. Hannagan proved to be too strong for anyone to threaten

as he rolled for a 3-lap dash to the fi nish.

“Darren Long gave me a slide job there and it made my alarm clock go off, so I had to get up on the wheel,” exclaimed an excited Han-nagan. “I fi gured it might be Long or Sauder or somebody coming up through there.” It was his fi rst win of the season and third in two years at the track. Long took second with Michigan’s Gregg Dalman fi nishing third.

Later in the evening, both Dalman and Hannagan would emerge as prime contend-ers in the second of the NRA Sprint features. The order of fi nish was different as Dal-man prevailed in a thrilling chase from behind, while Hannagan carved out a run-ner-up result after he also was behind the leaders for much of the race.

Beau Stewart propelled himself to the lead from his outside front row starting grid. The blue winged #27 car navigated three caution periods and ran up front until lap 20.

Suddenly it was apparent that Gregg Dalman had set up Stewart for a brilliant pass-ing maneuver on the bottom of turn four. With three laps remaining, Dalman made his move and it appeared both cars may have brushed tire barriers on the edge of the infi eld. Stewart became out-of sorts while Dalman calmly got squared away and stormed through the fi nal laps to secure the triumph.

“We kept working on the car it and improved it through the night,” stated the Grand Ledge, Michigan driver. “I kind of stayed with the bot-

tom of the track. I knew the top was going to get tricky for those guys. It did and we won!” Dalman added this win to another from early last season for his pair of career conquests at Limaland Mo-torsports Park. Randy Han-nagan fi nished second and his teammate/car owner Dennis Yoakam fi nished third after starting from the pole.

If the early 2012 racing season in the K&N UMP Modifi eds and Budweiser Thunderstocks divisions is any true indicator, the names of Jake Reufer and Shawn Valenti will be regularly spo-ken. Both drivers battled their way up through the extremely competitive fi eld to achieve status as multiple feature winners before the middle of May.

Reufer, who nearly won both features a couple of weeks ago, fl awlessly moved from his row 5 starting posi-tion to the third running slot after just three laps of the 20-lap Modifi ed main event. Re-ufer’s blue colored #16 ma-chine rooted out Clint Reagle on the bottom of the track and took the lead on lap 9. A pair of yellow fl ags didn’t slow the charge to his second win of the early campaign.

“This one is nice as me and my dad are both under the weather right now,” said the Indiana native Reufer. “I thought I was in trouble with my starting position, but we overcame and worked our way up there. I guess we were lucky to come home with the win.” Former champion Ter-ry Hull wound up fi nishing second and point’s runner-up Cory Seeling took third.

The Budweiser Thunder-

stocks are becoming Shawn Valenti’s private playground this season as the Lima driver posted an impressive third consecutive win. “It’s amaz-ing to come out here with this fi eld of cars and to get three in row is unbelievable,” said Valenti, now with 8 career wins at Limaland Motors-ports Park.

A fi ve car pile-up during the opening lap thinned out the fi eld of cars in the 15-lap stocks feature. Valenti moved to the lead on lap 5 with an outside pass of Barney Craig coming off of turn 2.

A pair of cautions didn’t affect Valenti on his domi-nant winning performance. “The restarts with Barney Craig behind me were im-portant that I maintain my composure,” said Valenti. “Who would have thought that we would come out this strong to start the season? We’ve had some breaks go our way, especially tonight coming up through the fi eld, but we’ll take it.” Craig, Tony Anderson, Jeff Koz and Chris Douglas rounded out the top fi ve fi nishers.

Action resumes on Friday, May18, with Modifi ed May-hem, as Limaland Motors-ports Park will host the El-wer Fence Sprints, the K&N UMP Modifi eds compete for $1,500 to win, and the Bud-weiser Thunderstocks. Gates open at 5:00 p.m. with hot laps beginning at 6:30 p.m. Racing starts promptly at 7:30 p.m.

Engine Pro/NRA Sprints from 4/20/12

A-Main – (25 Laps)1. 22H-Randy Hannagan;

2. 7-Darren Long; 3. 49T-Gregg Dalman; 4. 28H-Hud Horton; 5. 35-Ron Blair; 6. 27-Beau Stewart; 7. 3T-Tony Beaber; 8. 22D-Dennis Yoakam; 9. 5M-Max Stam-baugh; 10. B20-Butch Schro-eder; 11. 49-Shawn Dancer: 12. 2M-Dallas Hewitt; 13. 7K-Kyle Sauder; 14. 18-Todd Heuerman; 15. 10J-Jarrod Delong; 16. 27R-Ryan Ruhl; 17. 17-Jared Horstman; 18. 22-Ben Rutan; 19. 57-Dylan Cisney; 20. 11-Tim Allison

StocksHeat 1 - (8 Laps - Top 8

Transfer)1. 16-Jeff Koz; 2. 22T-

Tony Anderson; 3. 71C-Barney Craig; 4. O1-Brent Weaver; 5. 52T-Cody Tim-merman; 6. 7-Dan Wooten; 7. 57S-Billy Siferd; 8. 1W-Mark Wooten

Heat 2 - (8 Laps - Top 8

Transfer)1. 7B-Shawn Valenti; 2.

OOM-Bryan Martin; 3. 99-Andy King; 4. 1-Brad Kemp; 5. 327-Randy Crossley; 6. 88-Zach Bowen; 7. 17-Corey Wooten

Heat 3 - (8 Laps - Top 8 Transfer)

1. 82-Chris Douglas; 2. OON-Dwight Niehoff; 3. 2-Shane Wolf; 4. 12G-Gar-ry Domoe; 5. 74D-Craig Dippman; 6. 93-Zach Gus-tafson; 7. 27-Frank Paladino; 8. 52B-Sam Bodine

A-Main - (15 Laps) [#]-Starting Position

1. 7B-Shawn Valenti[8]; 2. 71C-Barney Craig[3]; 3. 22T-Tony Anderson[6]; 4. 16-Jeff Koz[9]; 5. 82-Chris Douglas[7]; 6. 57S-Billy Siferd[19]; 7. OON-Dwight Niehoff[4]; 8. 99-Andy King[2]; 9. 12G-Garry Domoe[12]; 10. 27-Frank Paladino[21]; 11. 2-Shane Wolf[1]; 12. O1-Brent Weav-er[10]; 13. 93-Zach Gus-tafson[18]; 14. 327-Randy Crossley[14]; 15. 1-Brad Kemp[11]; 16. 52B-Sam Bodine[23]; 17. 17-Corey Wooten[20]; 18. 88-Zach Bowen[17]; 19. 7-Dan Woo-ten[16]; 20. OOM-Bryan Martin[5]; 21. 74D-Craig Dippman[15]

Modifi edsHeat 1 - (8 Laps - Top 8

Transfer)1. 41-Ty Dillon; 2. 22T-

Tony Anderson; 3. 28-Chad Rosenbeck; 4. 33-Clint Re-agle; 5. 18N-Derrick Noffs-inger; 6. O1-Ryan O’Dette; 7. 17-Dillon Nusbaum; 8. 19B-Brandon Ordway

Heat 2 - (8 Laps - Top 8 Transfer)

1. F16-Jake Reufer; 2. 40-Terry Hull; 3. L5-Casey Luedeke; 4. OO-Kody Weis-ner; 5. 69-Tommy Beezley; 6. 47-Nick Rosselit; 7. 93-Tyler Stump; 8. 19-Ryan Ordway

Heat 3 - (8 Laps - Top 8 Transfer)

1. 65-Todd Sherman; 2. 22B-Andy Bibler; 3. O3-Cory Seeling; 4. 37-Jd Fran-cis; 5. 15-Nick Katterhenry; 6. 95-Greg Socha

A-Main - (20 Laps) [#]-Starting Position

1. F16-Jake Reufer[9]; 2. 40-Terry Hull[6]; 3. O3-Cory Seeling[2]; 4. OO-Kody Weisner[11]; 5. 22T-Tony An-derson[7]; 6. 22B-Andy Bi-bler[5]; 7. 41-Ty Dillon[10]; 8. 28-Chad Rosenbeck[4]; 9. 65-Todd Sherman[8]; 10. 37-Jd Francis[12]; 11. L5-Casey Luedeke[3]; 12.

93-Tyler Stump[20]; 13. 69-Tommy Beezley[14]; 14. 18N-Derrick Noffsinger[13]; 15. 47-Nick Rosselit[17]; 16. 95-Greg Socha[18]; 17. O1-Ryan O’Dette[16]; 18. 19-Ryan Ordway[22]; 19. 15-Nick Katterhenry[15]; 20. 33-Clint Reagle[1]; 21. 19B-Brandon Ordway[21]; 22. 17-Dillon Nusbaum[19]

NRA SprintsHeat 1 - (8 Laps - Top 5

Transfer)1. 40-Caleb Helms; 2. 49T-

Gregg Dalman; 3. 27-Beau Stewart; 4. 35-Ron Blair; 5. 5M-Max Stambaugh; 6. 10J-Jarrod Delong; 7. 23-Devon Dobie; 8. 27R-Ryan Ruhl; 9. 18-Todd Heuerman; 10. 98J-John Kettlewell; 11. 23M-Jack Miller

Heat 2 - (8 Laps - Top 5 Transfer)

1. 22H-Randy Hanna-gan; 2. 28H-Hud Horton; 3. 22D-Dennis Yoakam; 4. 82-Mike Miller; 5. 22-Ben Rutan; 6. 4U-Rick Boughan; 7. 34-Jimmy Sneed; 8. 2M-Dallas Hewitt

Heat 3 - (8 Laps - Top 5 Transfer)

1. 7K-Kyle Sauder; 2. 3T-Tony Beaber; 3. B20-Butch Schroeder; 4. 7-Darren Long; 5. 17-Jared Horstman; 6. 12-Kent Wolters; 7. 49-Shawn Dancer; 8. 4J-Bob Gehr; 9. 27B-Brad Lamberson; 10. 2G-Joe Geibe

B-Main - (10 Laps - Top 5 Transfer)

1. 10J-Jarrod Delong; 2. 2M-Dallas Hewitt; 3. 4U-Rick Boughan; 4. 18-Todd Heuerman; 5. 27R-Ryan Ruhl; 6. 49-Shawn Dancer; 7. 12-Kent Wolters; 8. 4J-Bob Gehr; 9. 27B-Brad Lamber-son; 10. 34-Jimmy Sneed; 11. 98J-John Kettlewell; 12. 2G-Joe Geibe; 13. 23M-Jack Miller; 14. 23-Devon Dobie

A-Main - (25 Laps) [#]-Starting Position

1. 49T-Gregg Dalman[5]; 2. 22H-Randy Hannagan[7]; 3. 22D-Dennis Yoakam[1]; 4. 27-Beau Stewart[2]; 5. 7K-Kyle Sauder[6]; 6. B20-Butch Schroeder[9]; 7. 17-Jared Horstman[15]; 8. 28H-Hud Horton[4]; 9. 3T-Tony Beaber[3]; 10. 35-Ron Blair[10]; 11. 82-Mike Miller[11]; 12. 7-Dar-ren Long[12]; 13. 40-Caleb Helms[8]; 14. 2M-Dallas Hewitt[17]; 15. 22-Ben Ru-tan[14]; 16. 5M-Max Stam-baugh[13]; 17. 27R-Ryan Ruhl[20]; 18. 18-Todd Heu-erman[19]; 19. 10J-Jarrod Delong[16]; 20. 4U-Rick Boughan[18]

.Gregg Dalman (49) and Randy Hannagan battle for the lead in NRA Sprint Invader action at Limaland Motorsports Park. Mike Campbell Photos

Hannagan and Dalman Capture Double NRA Sprint Invader Features

On May 12th and 13th, the Bluffton Soccer Club held its annual spring soccer tourna-ment, which took place on the practice fi elds at Bluffton University. The tournament had 31 teams overall and fea-tured three divisions: age 15 coed, age 12 coed, and age

12 girls. After the two-day tournament, the results are as follows:

U-15 Coed1st Van Buren2nd Findlay3rd Bluffton Red Pride

U-12 Coed1st Cory Rawson2nd Riverdale3rd Bluffton Buckeyes

U-12 Girls1st Arcadia2nd Riverdale3rd Bluffton Red Stars

Van Buren vs. Cory-Rawson (U-15 Coed) Photos by Austin Arnold

Van Buren just misses a scoring opportunity against the Hornets.

Cory-Rawson vs. Bluffton Fire (U-12 Coed)

Bluffton defenders fi ght off a Hornet offensive attack.

Bluffton Soccer Club Hosts Annual Spring Tournament Over Weekend

submitted by Bob Fricke

Th e Bluff ton News Th ursday, May 17, 2012

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Bluffton University will offer six summer mathemat-ics workshops for middle and high school teachers begin-ning June 12.

The 24th annual work-shops, hosted by adjunct faculty member Duane Bol-lenbacher, are all three-day sessions, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. Each workshop may be taken for 22.5 contact hours of Local Professional Development Committee credit, at a cost of $125, or, on a pass/fail ba-sis, for one semester hour of graduate workshop credit, for $275. Lunches are included; other meals and housing are available.

Bollenbacher will teach during the fi rst three weeks of workshops—“HQT Cer-

tifi cation for Intervention Specialist in Mathematics Content,” from June 12-14; “Mathematics for the Fam-ily and Consumer Science Teacher,” from June 19-21; and “Using Rich Problems to Learn and to Teach Good High School Mathematics, Course 3,” from June 26-28. The latter class is different from the last two years’ simi-larly named workshops. Also from June 26-28, Marilyn Link, a retired teacher from Coldwater, Ohio, will teach a new workshop, “Prob-lem Solving in the Middle School,” incorporating games, puzzles and math art. Registration deadlines are eight days prior to the fi rst day of each course.

The fi nal two workshops

are both Aug. 7-9. Link will teach another new offering, “Become a Master Teacher in Middle School Ratio and Proportional Thinking,” while Bollenbacher will be the instructor for “205 Things That Every High School Mathematics Teacher Should Know.” July 30 is the registration deadline for both courses.

Completion of any two of the six workshops will qual-ify intervention specialists for Highly Qualifi ed Teacher certifi cation in math content.

For more information, contact Bollenbacher at 419-358-3296 (work), 419-358-7365 (home) or at bollen-bacherd@bluffton.edu.

Math Workshops Aimed at Middle, High School Teachers

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