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PrimeTimers have cancelled its noon Tuesday, Feb. 3, gathering planned at St. John Mennointe Church.

 

 

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The Bluffton Scrap Artists recently applied for and were selected to receive a $500 grant from Ohio Quilts.

The grant will help cover the costs associated with making soldier quilts for wounded men and women in the U.S. armed forces. There will be an open sew day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Patio Room at Maple Crest Senior Living Center.

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Bluffton’s 2014 EMS runs and patient transports were down in 2014 compared to previous years, according to Jan Basinger, EMS chief.

In 2014 Bluffton EMS had 429 runs and 299 transports. That is 10 runs lower than last year and 27 transports lower than last year. A nine-year chart attachment to this story shows runs from 2006 to 2014.

The second attachment to this story reveals 2014 EMS fire runs, transports and other runs by the month.

The chart also shows the call locations and the transport destinations.

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Book ReViews will hold a book discussion group from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, beginning February 12. Because of limited space, the group is open to the first eight women who register. The first book to be discussed will be "One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are" by New York Times bestselling author, Ann Voskamp.

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Bluffton Community Hospital announced the following births during December and January.

December 8 -- Chandler Joel, son of Chad and Hailey Nye, Findlay

December 9 -- Brayden Allen, son of Brian and Lindsay Rutter, Elida

December 15 -- Autumn Noelle, daughter of Lydia and Christian Steiner

December 16

       -- Persephone Kay Weyer, daughter of Garrett and Tamara Weyer, Beaverdam

       -- Cristian Xavier, son of Maria and Guillermo Hernandez, Deshler

December 18 -- Addilynn Bernice, daughter of Kristi and Ben Montgomery 

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Bluffton University football player Brad Swavel talks with a student at Padua Academy in Indianapolis during a shoe distribution at the school Jan. 27. Roughly 170 students in kindergarten through fifth grade received new shoes—as well as socks and a drawstring backpack—through an effort coordinated by Samaritan’s Feet International and the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.

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