• Defensive Player of the Year
• Special Teams Player of the Year
• Newcomer of the Year
• First team all-Heartland
• Three-time player of the week recipient
Bluffton University football player, Montez Archer Jr., a freshman from Detroit, is an impressive three-trophy winner as awards were recently announced in this season’s Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC).
LaFayette Jackson Historical Society will host its annual Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 31.
The parade will start at 9 a.m. with a ceremony following at the monument. Anyone wanting to enter in the parade lineup, contact Judi Badertscher at [email protected] or 419-643-4664.
The Lima Rotary Club will hold a reverse raffle at 6 p.m., Thursday, June 3, in the Youth Building at the Allen County Fairgrounds in honor of Jay Begg, the late Allen County Commissioner, and member of the Lima Rotary Club who chaired the club’s annual auction and was involved in many other events.
More than 300 people are expected to attend the Jay Begg Rotary Reverse Raffle, which is a major fundraiser for the Lima Rotary Foundation, as it distributes thousands of dollars to local charities every year.
The Bluffton University baseball team moved to 12-16 with a convincing 5-0 shutout of Anderson University on a chilly Thursday, April 22, 2021, just one day after Mother Nature dropped five inches of the white stuff on Memorial Field. Anderson fell to 15-11 overall and in the HCAC .
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will host an online discussion on conducting market research at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 29.
BCE Executive Director Paula Scott will lead a conversation on how to become more knowledgeable about your industry, market, customer, and competition.
Participants are invited to RSVP – and send questions and topics of interest – to [email protected].