March 2019

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By Cort Reynolds
The Elida boys tennis team defeated Bluffton 5-0 Wednesday evening. The Bulldogs won all 10 sets in the match.

Match results:
Singles:
1) Dylan Buettner (E) def. Drew Wilson (B) 6-4, 7-5
2) Riley Frieke (E) def. Mack Burner (B) 6-0, 6-0
3) Aidan Bartels (E) def. Jordan Siefer (B) 6-0, 6-4

Doubles:
1) Riley Creps/Jacob Ramirez (E) def. Eden Nygaard/Grant Klingler (B) 6-0, 6-1
2) Wyatt Wuest/Eric Butler (B) def. Connor Lee/Luke Shadle (B) 6-4, 6-0

Pirate frosh Cole Koenig no-hits USV Rams

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By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Bluffton freshman hurler Cole Koenig tossed a run-rule shortened no-hitter to defeat visiting USV 12-1 Wednesday evening in non-league baseball action.

Juniors Cayden Rayle and Tucker Neff each collected two hits and two runs batted in to help pace the nine-hit Bluffton offense.

Koenig aided his own cause with a single. Freshman Nick Pratter also added a single. Bluffton also took advantage of six Ram errors to win going away.

BHS spring musical, April 12-13-14; tickets now on sale

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Bluffton High School will present “The Wizard of Oz,” as its spring musical in three shows April 12-13-14.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 12-13, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 14, in the middle school cafetorium.

Reserved seat tickets are $10 and general admission is $5. Tickets are on sale in the middle school office during school hours.

An account of 4 Hutterites imprisoned at Alcatraz, Sunday program

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Dora Maendel of Fairholme Hutterite Colony and Dr. Duane Stoltzfus of Goshen College will present “On the Front Line of Conscience: An Account of Four Hutterites Imprisoned at Alcatraz” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 31, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.  

Here's the A and A-B list for the third quarter

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Here is the Bluffton High School third quarter honor roll of 2018-19.

9th Grade – all A:
Nicole Boyle, Sophia Bricker, Jonah Brown, Ella Cunningham, Caitlin Dailey, Roric Dunifon, Elizabeth Frazier, Jordyn Garmatter, Caden Habegger, Dylan Hohenbrink, Anna Knauss, , Ellana Krupp, Kenneth Lovett, Ian Martz, Ella Miller, Reagan Mittendorf, Eli Okuley, Nathan Schaadt, Skyler Scoles, Luke Shadle, Lauren Swartzlander, Cara Young

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Journalist and author Michael Finkel will be joining the April 3 Noon Book Discussion to discuss his New York Times bestseller, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit.

Along with his nonfiction works, Finkel has written for a number of well known publications, including National Geographic, GQ, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine.

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the front desk of the library.
To ensure enough seating, please register at the library before Wednesday, April 3.

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The Bluffton Public Library has received a donation of six new books from the Bluffton Garden Study Club.

The Bluffton Garden Study Club was an active club from 1955-2018, and the club has generously donated these gardening books in honor of their years together.

The books may be found in the new non-fiction section of the library.  Please visit the library and enjoy our newest additions to the collection.

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By Zoe Kramer, Reporter

Officers were elected for The Beaverdam Bunch 4-H Club on March 25th at their last meeting. They elected President, Cierra Ackerman; Vice-president, Rebekah Hoff; Secretary, Addison Businger; Reporter, Zoe Kramer; Health Officer, Will Steiner ; Safety Officer, Daniel Creeger; and our Co-Recreation Officers, Carter Dyer and Trevor Smith.

Reminder: make sure to turn in all due forms and money by next meeting, April 8th.

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A special youth service will be held to celebrate Unity Sunday at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jenera, on Sunday, March 31 at 10:30 a.m.

There will be no service at 8 a.m, but Sunday School and Bible classes will begin as usual at 9:20 a.m. The youth of the church will provide the music, do the readings and explain why the church follows an order of service. 

Following the service, a potluck meal will be held in the school’s multi-purpose room.

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The Bluffton University baseball team tied it in the eighth and took advantage of back-to-back Capital errors in the ninth to win their second game in three days on Tuesday, March 26! Bluffton evened up its record at 9-9, while the Crusaders fell to 4-12 overall.

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