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Donors invited to support 2014 fireworks; enter the contest to name the event

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 4, 2014 - 5:32pm

Fireworks returns to Bluffton in 2014. Co-sponsored by First National Bank and Springfield Fireworks, a production of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, the event is Saturday, June 28, on the Bluffton University athletic complex.

Interested in naming the event? You could win a $25 chamber gift certificate. See details at the bottom of this story.

First National Bank and Springfield Fireworks have a challenge match to the community. The two businesses will match up to $4,000 of community donations made to the fireworks fund. 

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Come and get it! The soup's on at Maple Crest's soup cook-off March 6

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 4, 2014 - 5:18pm

After a one-month weather delay the soup is back in the kitchen.

Maple Crest Senior Living Village, 700 Maple Crest Ct., off Augsburger Road, Bluffton, will host a soup cook-off from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 6. It as originally set for Feb. 6, but was delayed due to bad weather.

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Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio
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Bluffton chamber enters March like a lion - with lots of events

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 4, 2014 - 5:09pm

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce enters March like a lion - with many activities planned. Here's a summary of events:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 - BROWN BAG ROUND TABLE

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce continues its experiment with a noon meeting from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 5. The brown bag round table (bring your own lunch and ideas), takes place in the small meeting room in the third floor of the town hall.

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Apollo ECE hosts March 10 fundraiser auction

Posted by Paula Scott on March 4, 2014 - 4:07pm

 

The Apollo Career Center Early Childhood Education (ECE) program is hosting a fund-raising auction titled Heart 2 Art on Monday, March 10, from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Apollo Career Center.

Early Childhood Education students work in daycares and preschools for hands-on experience in their chosen field. The masterpieces sold to the highest bidders during the auction are the pictures the preschool and daycare students have created for this event.

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OHSAA board okays competitive balance proposal

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 4, 2014 - 11:24am

OHSAA Board of Directors Unanimously Approves Competitive Balance Proposal
Similar Plan from 2013 Will be Voted Upon By Membership in May

The Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors has unanimously approved a Competitive Balance proposal that makes modifications on how schools are placed in tournaments in team sports. The plan, recommended to the Board from the 27-member OHSAA Competitive Balance Committee, is similar to the proposal that member schools voted upon last spring.

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Sports
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Sport leagues and clinics to start at BFR

Posted by Paula Scott on March 4, 2014 - 7:51am

 

Several spring sport leagues are about to begin at BFR Sports & Fitness.  Each league allows for individual player registration on mixed age teams. All matches and practices will be held at the BFR Sports & Fitness facility located at 215 Snider Road in Bluffton, Ohio.

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Tyler Begg BHS February student of the month

Posted by Paula Scott on March 4, 2014 - 6:50am

 

The February student of the month at Bluffton High School is 12th grade student Tyler Begg, son of Alan and Janet Begg of Bluffton.

Begg has a 4.00 GPA.

He is a member of Spanish Club, National Honor Society, Bluffton Cattle Club (4-H), Junior Fairboard and SNLY, the youth group at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

He has been on the soccer team all four years of high school and was in track his 9th and 10th grade years.

He has won special awards in high school in Latin II, Industrial Tech, Geometry and Algebra II.

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People
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Food boxes available to Pandora-Gilboa residents

Posted by Paula Scott on March 4, 2014 - 6:45am

 

The churches of Pandora and Gilboa are offering food boxes for households in the Pandora-Gilboa School District.

The boxes are designed to provide nine meals for a family of four. In order to pick up a box, you must register by calling 419-384-3038 by 5 p.m. on March 15.

Boxes will be available to be picked up on the last Saturday of the month, March 29, at 11 a.m. at the Grace Mennonite Church located at 502 East Main Street, Pandora.

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Churches
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Bluffton University speaker: Minimum wage hike helps everyone

Posted by Paula Scott on March 4, 2014 - 6:38am

Opposition to an increase in the federal minimum wage “smacks of slavery,” Bluffton University’s Smucker Lecturer in social work said Feb. 25.

Arvis Averette, social work coordinator at the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture, recalled the 1963 March on Washington, saying “the most controversial issue we had” was a call for a minimum wage of $2 per hour.

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Bluffton University
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Village will pay Sportmen's Club $13,174 in sewer backup damages

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 3, 2014 - 10:10pm

Bluffton council on Monday agreed to pay the Bluffton Sportsmen’s Club $13,174 for damages caused on Dec. 22 when sewage backed up and overflowed into the club’s depot on Spring Street.

Tom Augsburger, club president, asked council for financial help in the matter, after the village’s insurance carrier refused to pay for an insurance claim on the overflow. Augsburger said that the club did not carry sewer back up insurance at the time, “but we do now.”

The overflow, which Augsburger said, was “class 3 water,” or raw sewage.

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Bluffton Council/School Board
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