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The Quarry Farm Newsletter/Spring 2025 is HERE. Highlights:

The Gardener shares experience and expertise about planting for pollinators.

A visit with the sanctuary residents on April 10.

April 10 Women of the Land: Birding Workshop" (register by calling Putnam County Soil & Water Conservation District at 419-523-5159).

Identify birds with Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) educational staff as your guides.

April 10 from 5:30-7:00 p.m., 3325 Shawnee Rd, Lima

Apollo Career Center will hold its annual ApolloPalooza on April 10, 2025, 5:30-7 p.m. ApolloPalooza will showcase both the high school and adult education programs, celebrate Apollo's partnerships with local businesses, highlight Career Tech opportunities, its students and instructors. A highlight for this year's event is the opening of the New Public Safety building to the public. The event is free and open to the public.

The Bluffton Ohio Historical Society is inviting friends of Bluffton history to attend its monthly meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9 at the Bluffton Sportsmen's Club, 405 N Spring St.

Secretary Scott Little notes, "As usual, there will be lots to discuss. We’ll have committee reports (Building, History Day, Finance, Acquisitions, Depot Rentals, Membership, Grant Writing, Budgeting and Communications). Also, be thinking about what name we want to call the Depot/Train Station.  Do we want a more official name?

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON – The Bluffton High School baseball team lost 11-2 to visiting Parkway in a non-league game Friday evening, April 4. 

Bluffton fell to 2-2 overall with the defeat. The Panthers improved to 2-1 with the win.

Sophomore outfielder Blayne Hill led the Pirate offense with two singles, a run scored and a double. Senior Luke Jebsen contributed two singles. Junior Robby Taylor added a single and scored a run. Jake Weaver had one RBI.

Hill and Taylor each stole a base.

"Overture, curtains, lights, this is it, the night of nights... " Bluffton is spring theatrical mode with Popcorn Falls performances at Bluffton University on April 4-5-6 and Bringing Down the House performances by the Bluffton High School Drama Club on 11-12-13. On with the shows!

What's big, pink and looks like a cross between a sci-fi movie and bounce house? The giant inflatable colon that is coming to Southgate Lanes on April 19, thanks to GI Physicians Inc. 

From 3:00-5:00 p.m. the community education event will offer free bowling, free food and appetizers from QT Kays Kitchen. Call 419-358-6966 to reserve your lane. 

Guests will also have the chance to walk through a giant colon to see what a gastroenterologist sees when performing a colonoscopy. A colonoscopy examines the inside of your large intestine and can be used to screen for colon cancer and precancerous polyps.

Southgate Lanes is located at 9700 Dixie Highway in Bluffton. GI Physicians Inc is located at 512 N. Cable Rd. in Lima.

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