The Bluffton High School Marching band will be performing their fall concert on Friday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the high school gym. There will be a donation box at the door. PHOTO by Marvin Foster.
Bluffton University will host a fall choral concert featuring University Chorale and Camerata Singers at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31 in Yoder Recital Hall.
An entertaining afternoon will be provided with selections ranging from baroque to contemporary choral music. Composers include Tomas Luis de Victoria, Benjamin Britten, Morten Lauridsen and Stephen Paulus among others. Dr. Bo Young Kang, director of choral activities at Bluffton University, will conduct.
The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships.
Marlena Ballinger, owner of The Dough Hook Meat Market, 117 N Main St, Bluffton, was recently nominated to sit on the board of the National Hereford Women (NHW).
The National Hereford Women is an organization within the American Hereford Association (AHA). On Friday, October 22 Ballinger travelled to Kansas City to the annual AHA conference to accept her nomination and begin serving her four-year term as a director on its board.
Allison Diller scored two second half goals and the Bluffton girls soccer team blanked visiting Riverdale 2-0 in a tight Div. III district semifinal match Tuesday night, October 26, at Bluffton.
The Pirate girls improved to 14-3-1 with the victory.
Third-seeded Bluffton advances to take on top-seeded Liberty-Benton in the district finals at Bluffton Saturday, Oct. 30 at 3 p.m.
L-B (12-4-2) beat fourth seed Ashland Crestview 5-1 Tuesday night in the other district semi.
On October 16, a Halloween-themed tournament capped the first season of a co-ed sand volleyball league offered by Bluffton Family Recreation in partnership with Southgate Lanes. Team Pac Man won best costume honors (and a $120 prize) and Team Dominoes won for tournament play (and a $500 first place prize). Northwest Ohio Water Doctor was the main sand volleyball sponsor for the 2021 season.
