Don't leave town this weekend. The OSU-Michigan game will have to wait. It's Bluffton's Blaze of Lights week. Events take place Saturday, Nov. 25. A story below provides details.
Bluffton’s Blaze of Lights began in the 1930s with three lighted, painted deer on the Ream family farm.
In 2017, thousands of visitors are expected on Saturday, Nov. 25, to see the lighting of some 200 folk art pieces and enjoy the village’s 31st annual Christmas festival.
The Blaze of Lights parade begins at 5 p.m., but entries assemble at 4 p.m. and viewers start to gather well in advance.
Sixty-five students from 17 high schools across the state recently took part in the 15th annual Bluffton University Mathematics Competition. During the one-hour competition, students completed a test consisting of short-answer questions covering a range of math topics through precalculus. Cash prizes were awarded to top finishers.
Top finishers included:
1st place overall: Christopher Harnish, Bluffton High School
2nd place overall: Benjamin Heck, Liberty Benton High School
1st place junior: David Stirn, Shawnee High School
Bluffton school board will initiate bidding procedures on an 84-passengers school bus during its meeting on Monday. Bid opening is at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the superintendent’s office.
Several other actions are anticipated at Monday’s meeting. Those include, approving a special education agreement with the Pandora-Gilboa school district for the 2017-18 school year.
Several supplemental contracts are on the agenda. Four are for winter athletic coaches. Those persons are listed in the board agenda attached at the bottom of this story.
We don't know Bill Watkins' horse-riding skills, but we do know he is one of the important volunteers who helped set up the Ream holiday folk art display on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn on Friday. Watkins is also among that significant list of residents invited to turn on the Blaze lights during a previous Blaze of Lights. This year's Blaze is Ssturday, Nov. 25.
