August 5: National Night Out is·6:00 – 9:00 p.m. followed by Fireworks - Bluffton Community Pool, 205 Snider Rd. Free admission, free activities, free food.
Know your trees or wish you knew them better? The Village Arboretum, located on the Lake Street shore of Cob Lake at County Line Road, has a variety of labeled trees that are rapidly responding to warmer weather. Click the underlined title to reveal the tree shown here.
During Bluffton University's spring semester--which is wrapping up with finals the week of May 1--athletes visited Bluffton elementary and middle schools for a series of "High-five Fridays."
Baseball coach James Grandy reports that at first some children didn't know what to make of the line-up of young men and women who were there to encourage them and celebrate going to school.
By April 29, he notes, children were "sprinting through the line." It proved to be a fantastic experience for the university guests and K-12 school hosts.
Several members of the Bluffton Scrap Artist Quilters worked on sewing baby quilts during a recent retreat at Bluffton Town Hall, with over twenty-five quilts to be donated to Allen County Children Services in Lima.
The sewers spread out over the large third floor meeting room, where they meet on a regular basis.
