By Sam Brauen www.blufftonpirates.com
(MCCOMB) - The Bluffton baseball team dropped their opening game of the 2018 season by a 9-6 count to McComb.
Drew Rayle and Kaden Reneker each had two singles for Bluffton. Brady Romick knocked in two runs for the Pirates. Aaron Belcher took the loss on the mound.
Bluffton’s tree commission will be busy this spring as its on-going efforts reap recognition for the village.
Minutes from its March 22 reveal several activities underway in April.
Perhaps the most significant is that Bluffton will celebrate its quarter-century as a Tree City USA in April.
The Tree City presentations are April 18 in Upper Sandusky. The village will receive the Growth Award during the event. Joanne Antibus of the commission will give a presentation during the ceremony on the Bluffton Girl Scout’s tree labeling project in the village arboretum.
In recognition of Mother’s Day, the Blanchard Valley Health Foundation provides an opportunity in the Bluffton community to honor or remember a mother. You may recognize her as a “Founding Mother.”
A recognition wall is located outside the hospital maternity area at The Women’s Center of Bluffton Hospital.
This wall features “Founding Mothers” acknowledged by friends and family members.
The Black Lab, 121 N. Main St., now has copies of the local photo history book, "The Bluffton We Never Knew."
The book includes nearly 170 photos with descriptions of Bluffton photos from 1861 to 1911.
In addition reprints of an early Bluffton post card, which is also the cover the the book, are available. Post cards are $1.50 each and books are $21.30, which includes sales tax.
The final Bluffton Family Recreation indoor winter soccer league team registration deadline is Friday, March 30, according to Daniel Tinch, BFR executive director.
The league runs from April 8 to April 29 and is an adult-only league. The team fee is $360. Contact BFR at 419-358-4150 or register online at www.bfronline.com.
Tickets to the Bluffton Lions Club citizen of the year dinner are still available, according to Gene Long of the club.
A dinner will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in the third floor meeting room of Bluffton’s Town Hall.
Reservations are required by Sunday, April 8, and may be made by mailing payment of $17 per person to Bluffton Lions, Box 223, Bluffton or by calling Barbara Plaugher 419-204-2242 with payment guaranteed at the door.
What are those giant dark birds soaring in circles overhead?
They are turkey vultures—very important, graceful and clean wild residents in our northwest Ohio sky. Find out about these valuable helpers during “Discovery Stories: Turkey Vultures” at the Richard S. “Doc” Phillips Discovery Center at Oakwoods Nature Preserve on Monday, April 2.
Hancock Park District’s Katie Mehlow will read a story and play a game to see if you can smell as well as a vulture.
“Worthy of Honor” will be Dr. Jonathan Andreas’ topic for Bluffton University’s Civic Engagement Forum on Tuesday, April 10, in Yoder Recital Hall. His 11 a.m. presentation is free and open to the public.
