This is the second in a series of four columns about the four greatest Pirate men's basketball games I ever saw. In the first column, Ron Lora and Jim (Spike) Berry wrote about the game against State-Ranked Bellefontaine (Fourth in Class A) in which the Pirates prevailed in the old Bluffton High School gym. In this column Spike Berry writes about a second game in that same 1954-1955 year, the tournament game with Bluffton going against undefeated Willshire.
The Bluffion-Willshire Game
Spike Berry: Thirteen teams played in the Non County Tournament with three teams going to the District at the Celina Field House. The Bluffton Pirates made the trip as one of the three teams, the first trip for the Pirates since 1942. We played the game at the Celina Field House, and 69 years later the Celina team still plays there.
The Bluffton Exempted Village Board of Education will hold a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 20.
The agenda includes an executive session to consider an employment action and to approve the offer to purchase property from Eduardo and Amber Morales at 134 North Lawn Ave.
Let it Go was written for Disney’s Frozen. The original song was performed by Idina Menzel, but a shorter version was recorded by Demi Lovato for radio. The original Frozen film was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen.
Even though we have had some freezing days over the weeks, the weather is not dampening the spread of infections.
Ohio is one of many states experiencing a quad-demic. These four viral infections are COVID-19, influenza (flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and norovirus. COVID-19, flu, and RSV are all respiratory viruses, but norovirus is a gut virus.
On February 19, the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association (BAMA) made its annual tissue box donation to Bluffton Schools. This year's donation by member churches and the Bluffton Community Assistance Program is $700 worth of tissues, distributed to the Elementary, Middle, and High School buildings. Pictured here are (left) Jeremy Mann, Pastor of Emmanuel and St. John's UCC churches, with (right) Rob Glenn, Pastor of English Lutheran Church.
