The Bluffton Lions Club is seeking nominees for the 2021 Citizen of the Year Award. The award was established in 1981 to honor a person, couple, or person representing a group, who has selflessly given time, effort, and talent for the benefit of those in the Bluffton area, and whose dedication and achievements have profoundly improved the quality of life of the people in this area.
The Bluffton University men's basketball team dropped a 75-65 decision to Franklin College on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. Bluffton fell to 5-16 overall and 1-12 in the Heartland Conference, while Franklin avenged its 70-65 January loss to Bluffton, improving to 10-14 overall and 6-9 in the HCAC.
Apollo Career Center's All Area Boards dinner featured intern Andrea Bourassa and her parents Mark and Jackie Bourassa of Bluffton, who took the mic to express how much Andrea has benefitted from Project SEARCH. After completion in the spring, Andrea will begin her job in the transportation department at Mercy Health/St Rita's.
On February 7, the Bluffton High School Academic Team competed in the Ada Invitational Quiz Bowl Competition and went undefeated in the round-robin tournament with a 5-0 record.
The ten teams competing were Ada, Bluffton, Cory-Rawson, Elida, Hardin-Northern, Kenton, Liberty-Benton, Ridgemont, Riverdale and USV. Riverdale finished second, with Ada only 2 points behind Riverdale, finishing in third.
The Pandora-Gilboa Rockets (8-0 BVC, 4-2 PCL, 12-7) boys basketball team let one slip away on Saturday night Feb. 12, losing a tight one on the road to Putnam County League foe Fort Jennings, 33-31.
Bluffton University’s Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Roy Couch, will present the Winter Instrumental Concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 27, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Musical selections include:
A wind-band setting of hymns “A Scottish Sunrise (Morning Has Broken)” and “In Simple Faith (‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus);”
Compositions based on an extra-musical idea “The Ides of March,” “Radiance” and “Undertow” by John Mackey;
