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By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

A Reese's Book Club Young Adult Selection

Review by Robert McCool

Although this book, “Fire Keeper's Daughter” (Henry Holt and Co. ISBN: 978-1-250-76656-4) is presented as a Young Adult book written by Angeline Boulley, it has many lessons to teach us, in a head-first, nose-dive into the Ojibwa Native Culture. Written very much like Tony's, and then Ann Hillerman's Navajo series of books, it gives us insight into a complex culture older than ours but set in contemporary times.

By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton boys golf team won the rain-interrupted, 12-team Woodmore Invitational Wednesday.

Bluffton captured the team crown at the par-71 Green Hills Golf Course with a score of 342. The Pirates finished 10 strokes ahead of second-place Old Fort.

St. Marys took third with 356 strokes. Casey Crooks of St. Marys was tournament champion with an 18-hole score of 77.

Pirate Kenny Lovett totaled an 80 to pace the Bluffton linksters and finish fourth in the 68-player field. He carded three birdies and six par holes.

By Cort Reynolds

Host Bluffton lost its girls tennis home opener to Shawnee Tuesday, 5-0. 

The Lady Pirates dropped to 0-2 with the defeat. Shawnee won all 10 sets and took 60 of the 70 games in the match.

By Cort Reynolds

Visiting Bluffton defeated Kenton 4-1 in a girls tennis match Thursday evening.

The Lady Pirate netters improved their record to 1-2 with their first victory of the season.

Bluffton sophomore Brooke Camper defeated Wildcat senior Grace Collins at first singles 6-2, 6-1.

Pirate sophomore Caitlyn Couch also won a straight-sets match over Emma Mulligan at second singles by a 6-2, 6-4 score.

Pirate seniors Ellie Nickel and Libby Frazier swept to a 6-0, 6-0 win at first doubles.

Marilyn J. Beckler, 89, passed away August 11, 2021 Lima Memorial Health System.  Marilyn was born March 23, 1932 in Pandora to the late George and Naomi (Crawford) Shoemaker.  On July 20, 1958 she married John Beckler who preceded her in death on March 14, 2014. 

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