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;
In only its second year as a swim team with the Ohio High School Athletic Association, the Bluffton High School swim team has nine individual qualifiers and five relay teams moving onto the OHSAA Northwest District Division II competition February 18-20, 2022 at Bowling Green State University.
Bluffton High School art students have had 14 pieces of art accepted by the annual Kewpee High School Art Invitational at ArtSpace/Lima. The show at 65-67 Town Square, Lima, runs from February 11-26. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and admission is free.
