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Greg's Health Mart Pharmacy, 126 N. Main St., Bluffton, will offer a free health screening from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 14, according to Greg Conkling.

Services at the screening are provided by student pharmacists from Ohio Northern Univesity and the National Community Pharmacists Association Student Chapter.

The screening is free and includes:
oBlood pressure checks
oOsteoporosis screening
oLipid and glucose panels

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How do Ohio counties measure up on access to healthy foods, obesity rates, teen births, education, and single parent families, and how are these factors linked to health?

The third County Health Rankings is now available and will allow residents look at how healthy Allen County is, see what factors affect their health, and compare Allen County to others in Ohio.

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Kristine Frick DeBolt, 68, of Pandora, died at her home Tuesday, April 3, 2012. She was born Jan. 11, 1944 in Bellefontaine to Arthur and Ann (Harding) Frick who preceded her in death.

On Dec. 4, 1999, she married Reuben DeBolt, who survives in Pandora.

Also surviving are her son, Ty Comer of Pandora, her brother Mark (Dee) Frick of Elida, and her sister Karen (Wayne) Smith of Hilliard. She was preceded in death by her sister Jan Frick .

Mrs. DeBolt is also survived by step-daughters Sarah DeBolt of Bogota, Colombia, and Rebekah DeBolt of Knoxville, Tenn.

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The Ohio High School Athletic Association's Board of Directors held a special meeting on Friday, March 23, and approved five additional items to place before the membership during the annual referendum voting process that will be held between May 1 and 15.

Among the items that will be voted upon by member school principals is a slightly revised Competitive Balance Proposal that, if adopted, would place schools into their respective tournament divisions in team sports based on a sport-by-sport athletic count.

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Cross-cultural reach

Rikuto Sato (right), fifth grader at Wilson Vance Intermediate School, Findlay, helps Trey Paxton, Bluffton fourth grader, with his paper hat during a "Children to Children" program April 2 at Bluffton University. Sato, 11, was in a group of Japanese children who came to campus for the program with Bluffton fourth graders. Meeting in Burcky Gymnasium, the Japanese children taught their Bluffton peers origami, how to write and speak some Japanese, and a game using chopsticks.

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Game 1 stats: http://www.bluffton.edu/sports/softball/2012/04-03-s1.htm>

I Game 2 stats: http://www.bluffton.edu/sports/softball/2012/04-03-s2.htm

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