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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While attending the International Franchise Association (IFA) convention Feb. 21-25 in New Orleans, the management team from Shirley’s Gourmet Popcorn Co., joined more than 100 franchising executives from across the country to participate in the annual Franchising Gives Back day of service.
The team of Pete &and Kim Suter, Jennifer Althaus and Dan Stanowick volunteered alongside leading franchisors and suppliers to construct benches, picnic tables, and planters at Einstein Charter School, a leading K-8 school in the city’s Ninth Ward.
A national search is underway for the next head football coach at Bluffton University. Tyson Veidt, the head coach since 2008, has accepted the position of linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Toledo.
“Coach Veidt built a strong foundation for our football program and has made a difference in the lives of many of our student-athletes,” said Phill Talavinia, athletics director. “We wish him all the best on his move to a Division I program.”
