The Bluffton Pirates football team takes on Spencerville at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9 at Harmon Field. Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate. PHOTO by Marvin Foster
Online and In-School Education Boosting Number of New OHSAA Officials
COLUMBUS–Facing a growing shortage of interscholastic sports officials across Ohio, the Ohio High School Athletic Association has moved all classroom instruction for new officials to the convenient virtual platform RefPrep and is also asking member schools to offer the online officiating curriculum during the school day for students to begin the process of becoming a licensed official. A number of schools across Ohio have already begun offering the RefPrep class.
Dr. Rob Alexander, the Wilfred Binkley endowed professor of political science and director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University, will present the Forum “The Ever-Controversial Electoral College,” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20 in Yoder Recital Hall.
In this Forum, Alexander examines how the Electoral College has changed over the years and what we might expect for its future given the constitutional crisis created in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Jan and Paula (Brodman) Kibele of Bluffton will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on September 9, 2022.
They were married on September 9, 1972 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bluffton, Ohio.
The couple has four children: Dawn (Michael) Ballinger, Leif (Maria) Kibele, Holly (Doug) George and Chelsea (Jimmy Hovest) Kibele; and 10 grandchildren: Tecumseh, Sumner, Maddox, Colt, Elliot, Gavin, Trey, Tanner, Truett and Thea
Jan is retired from the Ford-Lima Engine Plant and Paula is retired from Bluffton Hospital.
