On June 23 the Bluffton Shuffleboard Club held their first-ever Battle of the Sexes tournament, according to Ralph Peterson, president of the club.
In a tight match, the men won 21-17. Four rounds were played with the men leading by four points after the first round and then holding on to win by just four points.
One shuffler, Sylvia Smith, won all four of her matches.
BVH Associate Named a Top 40 Under 40 Laboratory Leader Blanchard Valley Hospital laboratory manager Shawn Griggs has been named one of the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s (ASCP) “40 Under 40” for his achievements in the medical laboratory field.
Griggs has been a BVH laboratory associate for the past 15 years. A graduate of Ohio Northern University, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in medical technology and completed a laboratory externship at the Boston V.A. Medical Center School of Medical Technology in Boston, Mass.
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On Friday afternoon, June 13th 2014 the Bluffton Lions Club put on the 47th Festival of Wheels and Cruise-in. We strive to make it a better show each year. It takes a lot of volunteers to make it a success.
Book ReViews, 123 S. Main St., Bluffton, is the location of the June Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce cash mob.
Cash mob hours are from 3 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, June 25. According to Christina Walton, bookstore manager, the following special offers will be in effect during the cash mob:
• Selected non-fiction books will be 50% off
• All fiction books will be 40% off
• Customers may enter two free drawings, one for a $25 chapmber-sponsored shopping spree in the story, and another for a $25 shopping spree given by Book ReViews.
The Bluffton Public Library will host M.E. Reach, an author of young adult books, at 2 p.m., Friday, June 27. The program is in the Young Adult section of the library, according to Esther Birkey, Youth Services Coordinator.
Reach has worked with teens and adolescents for nearly 11 years in a variety of contexts, across five states and in two foreign countries. He and his wife, Cassi, and their children, have recently returned to the U.S. after serving in Bangladesh.
A: On his bike somewhere between Toledo and Chicago.
Actually, the answer is more involved in that:
Bluffton cyclist Everett Collier takes lots of bike rides around the block, and this summer that block extends for 3,600 miles.
Collier is participaing in the 7th annual Fuller Center Bike Adventure. It’s a bike ride from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Astoria, Oregon. The ride started June 5 and finishes on Aug. 10 – with several stops along the way where bikers will assist in building projects with Fuller Center covenant partners.
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Bluffton High School's Drama Club has a long and successful run. Here are members of the club during the 1972-73 school year - 41 drama productions ago.
The Bluffton Lions club held its June 3 meeting volunteering at the VOSH-OHIO (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity) Pandora, eye glasses recycling center in the United Methodist Church.
The evening included cleaning, sorting, evaluating and reading recycled eye glasses for preparation to distribute to underserved people throughout third-world countries.
Photo shows Lions Ed Yeager, Don Hostetler and Alan Yoder checking glasses on the lensometers. Members of the church provided the meal.
