Trinity Lutheran School’s graduation will be held Sunday, May 26, in the 10:30 a.m. service at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jenera.
Jacob Miles is the class speaker. The class members are: Zander Steven Mays, Jacob William Miles and Brandon Pierce Stuckey.
Special music will be by the students in the third and fourth grades playing hand chimes. The students in Kindergarten through Eighth Grade will sing “The Path.”
There will be a regular service at 8 a.m. with Bible classes and Sunday School beginning at 9:20 a.m.
Bluffton Volleyball camp will be Monday, July 1 through Tuesday, July 2 for any girls entering third through eighth grade at the HS gymnasium. This camp is led by Kevin King, HS varsity volleyball coach, alongside HS coaching staff and varsity players.
Session 1, from 9 a.m. to noon, is for sixth through eighth graders.
Session 2, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. is for third through fifth graders.
Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn Co. and Friends of the Bluffton Public Library are hosting a 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, June 22. Registration starts at 8 a.m., with race beginning at 9 a.m.
Both adults and youth are encouraged to participate. The race will start and finish on College Avenue in front of Bluffton High School.
Trophies will be awarded for overall top male and female finishers. Medallions will be awarded for the top male and female in each age division. Age divisions are: 10 and under, 11-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-65, 66 and over.
Eight-year-old Braylon Simon’s own experience at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, made him want to do something for other children who are patients there.
In April, 2018, Braylon, son of Jonathan and Kayla Simon of Bluffton, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Nodular Lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
After four rounds of aggressive chemo, he is in his ninth month of remission.
To celebrate his first year of being cancer free – in August – he wants to have a toy drive for the Hematology and Oncology floors at Nationwide hospital, where he was treated.
The S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club of Bluffton announces the winners of its “Service To Humanity” scholarship awards, given to graduating seniors of Bluffton High School.
The Club (Sharing Hopes And Nourishing Needs Of Neighbors) is an entirely local Bluffton volunteer organization that strives to make the Bluffton area a better place by serving its youth, its elderly and its needy.
Seventeen Blufton sixth graders and nine seventh graders took the spring Noetic Math Challenge in April, according to Dina Tadena, sixth and seventh grade math teacher.
There were 34,055 students who took the challenge from 47 states and 776 schools.
The following Bluffton students received national honorable mention, which means they scored in the top 50% of all of the students. Each grade had a team winner, based on the highest score from those that took the test.
7th grade:
• Team winner and national honorable mention
Theo Andreas
By Cort Reynolds
DELPHOS - Bluffton had two baseball players earn All-Northwest Conference notice in voting conducted by the league coaches Monday night at Delphos.
Junior Cayden Rayle was voted second team All-NWC, while freshman Nick Prater was named honorable mention all-league.
