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Bluffton Family Recreation will hold a Columbus Crew SC winter camp for youth ages 6 to 18 on Monday, Feb. 15. The camp takes place at BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton, from 2 to 5 p.m.

Joseph Beagle, BFR director, said, “Crew SC winter camps series focus on player development through a core foundation of soccer skills in a challenging and fun learning environment. Each camper is sure to walk away with a positive experience and high quality training from the only professional soccer club in the region.”

Bluffton Family Recreation launches the new year with two programs for persons interested in keeping fit, according to Joseph Beagle, BFR director.
 
Keeping Active
BFR and St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima, team up to coordinate Keeping Active, a program that runs from Jan. 18 to Feb. 26.
 
This program offers free fitness, physical activities, nutrition and general wellness events.
 
Beagle said that the program is for adults and youth.
 
Get Fit for Life

Nettie Mae Ferrall, 93, died Jan. 2, 2016 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, where she had been a resident.  Nettie was born March 15, 1922, in Pandora to the late Homer and Ella (Badertscher) Basinger.
 
She graduated from Pandora High School and was a graduate of The Ohio State University with a nursing degree in 1946.  On Aug. 28, 1949 she married Rex W. Ferrall who preceded her in death on Dec. 3, 2010, after 61 years of marriage. 
 

Bluffton council reorganizes for 2016 on Jan. 4. Among agenda items is the discussion of how to proceed with one vacant council seats. One of those seats is Judy Augsburger's seat currently held by David Steiner.

Council's agenda follows:

Some things never change. Only the location.

Here's a Bluffton High School pep rally during the 1955-56 school year. The only difference between this photo and a pep rally today is that today's rallies are in the new gym. 

But, like 1955-56, today friends and classmates sit together. (Maybe boys' sock styles have change over the year.)

January 4, 2016

BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton senior Thayne Recker (Arlington) has been named the Heartland Conference Player of the Week for the second time this season. Recker was a three-time HCAC Player of the Week in 2014-15 en route to being named First Team All-Heartland Conference last season. 

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