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Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) is offering a "Picture a Life with Less Pain" pain management seminar Wednesday, Feb. 2 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Marathon Auditorium at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay.

The seminar is for men and women who want to learn how to live, work and play while minimizing pain.

This event will include physicians and professionals speaking about:

60 years combined experience

Lawrence Matthews (left) and Larry Kinn were both recognized for 30 years of service during Bluffton University's faculty-staff recognition dinner on Jan. 16.

January is a busy month for Bluffton school students. Here's the calendars for each building.

Click here for elementary calendar.

The January elementary newsletter may be opened as an attachment at the bottom of this story.

Click here for middle school calendar.

Click here for high school calendar.

Renee Smith will lead the Bluffton school board in 2011. Smith was elected board president at the Jan. 11 reorganization meeting. Three school board positions will be up for re-election in 2011. That information is at the bottom of this story.

Several other appointments were made at the meeting,

More wild Bluffton

Over 500 Canada geese find a sunny spot to sit and gab in Bluffton's National Quarry during the winter.

First Mennonite Church's BlauRock Cafe will present an evening of celebrating a vision of world peace expressed in music, prose, poetry, and the words of the Martin Luther King Jr.The event is at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 17, in Fellowship Hall in the church.

The evening includes coffeehouse-style entertainment. Amy Lehman Mikesell, Hassan Mosoka and Shahad Aldoori offer reports of conflict and hope from various parts of the world.Musical performers include Matthew Keeler, Jeff and Marlyce Gundy, Tamara Al-Sammarraie, and One in a Number, The Bluffton Women's Choir.

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