Ron Lora (left) checks out the results of his 90-second shopping spree as Dave Houghtaling, manager of Community Markets, offers congratulations. Lora won the Community Market shopping spree on a Lions Club raffle. He donated groceries collected during his 90-second spree to the Our Daily Bread food kitchen and the Bluffton Food Pantry. The program is a fund raiser for the Lions Club scholarship fund.
Bluffton council will consider an aggressive street maintenance program this summer. The action is on Monday’s council agenda. Here are the streets under consideration. The list with cost estimates is in the attachment at the bottom of this story.
The Bluffton University baseball team ran out to a 10-2 lead midway through the sixth and held on for its fourth straight Heartland Conference series victory on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Bluffton improved to 16-14 overall and 9-9 in the HCAC, while Anderson dropped to 18-11 and 11-7 in the conference.
May Day weekend is a Bluffton University tradition with events dating back a century, including a theatrical production that ultimately became the May Day musical.
Beginning with May Day 1915, early theater productions at Bluffton featured Shakespeare “on the green.” Musicals were introduced in the ‘50s, notes Dr. Melissa Friesen, professor of theatre and communication.
The Bluffton-Beaverdam-Richland Township United Way board will meet at 6:30 p.m., April 23, in the Bluffton elementary library. On the agenda is the 2015 budget.
The agenda is in the attachment at the bottom of this story.
