Here's news from the Bluffton High School website:
Yearbooks Are In: Attention class of 2016, you can pick up your yearbook in the office between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Other student's yearbooks will be distributed during schedule pick up times.
Summer Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8-3 during the month of August.
Schedule Pick Up/Pictures: Aug. 19 and 22 from 8-noon and 1-3 p.m.
Here's some news from Bluffton Middle School about the coming school year.
Registration for 2016-2017 school year will take place on Friday, Aug. 19, and Monday, Aug. 22 from 8 a.m. to noon and again from 1 to 3 p.m. A mailing went out on Thursday, Aug. 11 with information regarding those days. First day of classes is Monday, Aug. 29.
6th Grade Orientation
There will be a 6th grade orientation for all in-coming sixth grade students and their parents on Thursday, Aug. 25th from 6-7 p.m. in the Middle School cafetorium.
Bluffton Family Recreation, 2015 Snider Road, Bluffton, now offers classes three a week through the Healthway SilverSneakers Fitness program, according to Joseph Beagle of BFR.
The program is for older adults and involves regular physical activity.
Each class session lasts between 45 and 60 minutes held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:45 a.m. at BFR. The Monday class is a new option in the program.
Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton, invites the public to its annual “Concert on the Lawn,” Sunday, Aug. 21, at 6:30 p.m.
Musical entertainment is by the Lima Area Concert Band.
Attendees are asked to bring a lawn chair and an appetite. There will be free ice cream, popcorn and beverages along with the fellowship of family and friends.
For more information regarding Concert on the Lawn, call Mennonite Memorial Home at 419-358-1015, option 1.
Billy G. Rowe, 72, died on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, at 5:40 a.m. at his residence in Alger.
He was born on July 20, 1944, in Shelby, Ohio, to Estle and Rosie (Lillo) Rowe who preceded him in death. On Jan. 29, 1964, he married Cheryl D. Weller and she survives in Alger.
Billy previously worked at the Ohio Kentucky Manufacturing Co. in Ada. He then worked for 26 years as a carpenter for Teledyne Ohio Steel in Lima. Billy then retired after working for 13 years for DTR Industries in Bluffton. He was a graduate of Alger High School.
A free event, titled Urge 2016, open to youth from junior high through college age takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 21 at Bethel Church of Christ just north of Ada.
The focus is to encourage students ( to do well in the upcoming school year and to urge them to be who God wants them to be in their schools.
URGE features Courtnee Morris as the guest speaker along with the Mike Lee Band (Worship) from Fort Wayne, SafeKept (Christian Rock) from Columbus and B List Boys (Christian Hip Hop) from Bluffton.
Friends and neighbors are invited to Worship in the Park at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, with Emmanuel United Church of Christ. The service and family activities will be held in the Bluffton village park under the pavilion by the baseball field.
