By Sam Brauen, www.blufftonpirates.com
Bluffton High School junior Averey Rumer has been named second team All Ohio in softball for the 2018 season. The shortstop led the Pirates in batting average at .625 and stolen bases with 19.
Katie Prater, a junior, received first team district honors and Libby Schaadt, a sophmore, was named to the second team. Prater batted .469, hit 8 doubles, 3 home runs and drove in 28 runs.
Jeff Boehr of Bluffton participated in the May 6 commencement service of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Elkhart, Ind.
He anticipates graduating in December 2018 with a Master of Arts in Christian Formation with a concentration in Christian Spirituality. His future plans are pending in the area of retirement community pastoral care or chaplaincy; he is also open to congregational pastoral work.
Boehr, who previously earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Accounting from Bluffton University, is a member of First Mennonite Church in Bluffton.
Bluffton Family Recreation, 215 Snider Road, plans a Community Day Tuesday, May 22, according to Daniel Tinch, BFR executive director. All events are open to the public.
Events include:
• Bubba C BBQ, outside for dinner, 3 to 7 p.m.
• Dodge ball open games, 3 to 5:30 p.m.
• Meet summer camp counselors, 5:30 to 7 p.m.
• Knockout tournament, 6 p.m.
• Kids’ obstacle course, 3 to 7 p.m. in the area
• TRX demonstration, 7 p.m.
• Outdoor games on BFR lawn
• WFIN radio will be at BFR from 3 to 7 p.m.
By Sam Brauen, www.blufftonpirates.com
(FINDLAY) - Several Pirate individuals and relay teams advanced to the OHSAA regional meet in Tiffin. The boys team placed fifth and the girls seventh at the district meet.
Moving on to regionals are :
Jackson Steinmetz - 3200
1st Place at 10:38 (new PR)
Boys 4x800 : Asher Antrim, Christopher Harnish, Luke Young and Baylor Garmatter
1st Place at 8:34
Trinity Lutheran School’s graduation will be held on Sunday, May 27, in the 10:30 a.m. service at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main St., Jenera.
Ayden Kretz is the class speaker. The class members are: Kamielle Laine Alge, Octavia Lee Hassan, Grace Allison Insley and Ayden Lawrence Kretz.
The students in Kindergarten through eighth grade will sing “I Believe.”
There will be a regular service at 8 a.m. with Bible Classes and Sunday School beginning at 9:20 a.m.
Manford E. Robinson will celebrate his 90th birthday with an open house from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, May 27, at Community Bible Church, Arlington.
In addition, friends are invited to participate in a card show by sending cards to his home at 9565 N. Dixie Highway, Bluffton. The family requests that no gifts be give at the birthday open house.
By Liz Gordon-Hancock
After interviewing my childhood best friends, Natasha and Theresa Meyer, who were twins, I set out to interview other twins from Bluffton. I managed to interview my first set of identical twins. Allow me to introduce Morgan and Natalie Basinger.
Morgan and Natalia are identical twins, the daughters of Scott and Kate Basinger. They are five years old. For the record, Morgan is older. The girls will start kindergarten in Bluffton this fall. They have one younger sister, Brooklynn, age 4.
Bluffton Public Library's summer reading program kick off is Monday, June 4.
The kick off begins at noon with an indoor picnic. Bring your own brown bag lunch.
At 12:30 p.m. in the library's rear parking lot is a Touch-a-Truck (and llamas), featuring a variety of local vehicles and machines to explore and view.
The library thanks Bluffton Fire and Police Departments, Hard Rock Llama Co., and several others who will provide the fun for the Touch-a-Truck hour.
At 1 p.m., the Wild Steelions youth steel drum band will perform outside the library.
