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Football preview: 2015 Pirate gridders look to improve on last season

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 27, 2015 - 12:10pm

By Sam Brauen

The 2015 Bluffton football season is set to kickoff Friday evening and the Pirates are ready to get back into action.  

Bluffton is under the direction of Coach Kyle Cutnaw who returns for his second year at the helm of the program. 42 players dot the roster and the Pirates will compete in Division VI, Region  20. 

The team has had successful scrimmages with Arlington, Marion Local and Pandora-Gilboa in addition to winning the Liberty Benton 7 on 7 tournament earlier this summer. 

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Sports
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Here's the fall BFR newsletter

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 27, 2015 - 10:22am

The September, October and November Bluffton Family Recreation newsletter is now on the Icon.

The newsletter lists programs from youth through adults. In addition, indoor soccer information is included, as well as membership prices.

To view the newsletter open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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Bluffton Family YMCA
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Non-profit organizations event: Tools for giving seminar offered twice on Sept. 10

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 26, 2015 - 5:44pm

Several Bluffton non-profit organizations will hold an informational “Generous Living, Tools for Giving” seminar twice on Thursday, Sept. 10.

The free, one-hour seminars are:
• 10 a.m., Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St.
• 7 p.m., Bluffton town hall, third floor, 154 N. Main St.

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Regional news
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Council committee meeting date moved to Aug. 31

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 26, 2015 - 5:41pm

The Village of Bluffton’s Streets, Alleys, Lights, and Sidewalks Committee meeting scheduled for Sept. 8, has been rescheduled to Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 at 7 p.m., according to Nancy Kindle, village fiscal officer.

 

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Public Meetings
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Grant will aid university campus discussion of vocation

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 26, 2015 - 5:39pm

Bluffton University is again going to work on vocation with the aid of a $10,000 grant administered by its Center for Career and Vocation (CCV).

More specifically, the university has received a $10,000 professional development award from the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). And the award will help fund a project, called Renewing Vocation through Innovation, Vision and Exploration (reVIVE), that organizers hope will lead to increased faculty and staff engagement about vocation.

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Bluffton University
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Paws to read on Saturday

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 26, 2015 - 5:35pm

Teddy, a therapy dog, listens as Kaydance Sommers tells him about the picture book she glances through. Teddy comes to the Bluffton Public Library two Saturdays each month. His next visit is at 10 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 29. According to his owner, Connie Anderson, Teddy likes to listen to youngsters read to him.

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