Have you been bitten by the photography bug? The Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan park district invites non-professional photographers to enter the 45th annual Nature Photography Contest. Deadline for entry is Sunday, October 31. Competition categories are:
Specific Nature Subject – Flora
Specific Nature Subject – Fauna
Landscape
Parks Potpourri
For "Parks Potpourri," photos must be taken in a park operated by the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District (including Bluffton's Motter Metro Park, 10740 Columbus Grove-Bluffton Rd.)
Registration is open for Fall Session 2 youth programs at Bluffton Family Recreation (BFR), 215 Snider Rd. The session runs from October 10 to November 6.
A variety of after school programs are available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Costs range from $16-24 for BFR members and $30-48 for non-members. See attached flyer for programs and times.
All youth classes are run each session (Fall I-III) unless otherwise noted. The schedule is subject to change.
You know it's a Monday, Wednesday or Friday in Bluffton if you see folks lining up at the Et Cetera Shop, 327 N. Main. The Mennonite Central Committee thrift shop is staffed by volunteers and is open for sales from 1-5:00 p.m. three days a week. Donation days are Tuesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ben Thiel, the new Bluffton Elementary school principal, is originally from the Findlay area and graduated from Liberty Benton HIgh School. He attended Indiana Wesleyan University before transferring to Bluffton University in 2007, where he played football and graduated with a middle childhood education degree.
Ben and his wife Sarah started their teaching careers in Texas. He began his masters coursework at the University of Texas at Arlington and completed Principal Licensure at the University of Findlay.
Some of you may be familiar with the idiom “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” The expression is interpreted as a person that invests or commits all their energy or resources into a single opportunity or goal at the risk of losing everything. We were often given this advice to make sure that we had a backup plan or a plan B so that if the original goal did not come to fruition, we had an alternative. (When you say plan B to a healthcare professional, we often think of the commercially available product for emergency contraception known as Plan B®.)
The Bluffton University men's soccer team netted a goal in each half en route to the 2-1 victory over Mount St. Joseph on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. Bluffton improved to 5-4 overall and 1-2 in the Heartland Conference, while the Lions slipped to 2-9 and 1-2 in the HCAC.
Both teams had plenty of chances in the opening period but the only score came when Elijah Zimmerman (Archbold) capitalized on an MSJ misfire in minute 32. His seventh tally of the season pushed Bluffton to a 1-0 lead at the break.
