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May 2024 Happenings at the Bluffton Senior Center

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:50am

The May 2024 Bluffton Senior Citizen Center Happenings newsletter reveals that the local organization is motoring on–and motor coaching on–with over 700 members. Participants are active at the center at 132 N Main St., which provides scheduled activities from simply socializing to Western Square Dancing. Travel is also an important offering with day trips as close as Toledo and extended tours as far as Hawaii and Alaska.

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The BSC May member meal is Monday, May 13, at 6 p.m. with reservations due by May 8. Paul and Joy Gruetter to perform.

Medicare 101 will be held on Wednesday, May 8, at 10:30 a.m., employees from the Allen County Council on Aging will be at the Bluffton Senior Center to discuss Medicare. 

Community meals are scheduled for May 2 and May 16 and will be served by Ebenezer Mennonite Church and Emmanuel United Church of Christ. All meals are at 6 p.m. and are free, but a good will offering is taken to benefit the local food pantry. 

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Jed Marquart wraps up 33 years of teaching at his alma mater

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:27am

The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering recently celebrated the career of Dr. Jed Marquart, BSME ’80, ahead of his upcoming retirement after more than 30 years of service to the university.

A native of Bluffton, Ohio, he has had a lifelong affinity for Northwest Ohio. After graduating from ONU, he worked in the engineering workforce and obtained graduate degrees from the University of Dayton. In 1991, he returned home and spent the next 33 years teaching at his beloved alma mater.

“People have always asked me, ‘Do you think about moving somewhere else?’ and I really never have,” Marquart said. “I’ve had people contact me about being a department chair at a different university or something, and I had no interest in going anywhere else.”

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Bluffton Soccer Club to hold travel team tryouts 

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:09am

Bluffton Soccer Club will hold tryouts for girls and boys entering Grades 2-8 at Citizen National Bank fields (Bluffton Family YMCA if inclement weather).

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Summer day camps offered at Bluffton Family YMCA

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:07am

The Bluffton Family YMCA is gearing up for summer day camps from June 3 - August 23, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. There will also be options for Before Care from 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. and After Care from 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

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Pirate baseball edged by Lancers

Posted by Staff on April 26, 2024 - 8:02am

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON __ The visiting Lincolnview baseball team nipped Bluffton High School 3-2 in a Northwest Conference pitcher’s duel Thursday night, April 25.

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Tree Commission celebration April 27 at Bluffton Community Pool

Posted by Paula Scott on April 26, 2024 - 6:00am

The Village of Bluffton Tree Commission will plant several trees at the Bluffton Community Pool, 201 Snider Rd., in a public Arbor Day celebration at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 27. 

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