Gardeners of the Bluffton Pandora Area will tour the Bluffton Community Gardens at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4. The gardens are on South Main Street.
The tour is open to the public. For more information contact Pat Flinn at [email protected]. The club’s current newsletter, with additional club information, is attached at the bottom of this story.
Eli Okuley, 14, freshman at Bluffton High School, and member of the Bunny
Boosters 4-H Club, received awards at this year's Allen County Junior and Senior Fair. He is the son of Bruce and Carole Okuley of Bluffton.Those awards follow:
The entire Essinger family participated in the Zoom RedHawks Triathlon Festival at Hueston Woods on Aug. 26. This is part of the Ohio triathlon series hosted by Zoom Multisport Racing of Dayton.
Dave and Levin both did the Beginner Triathlon, so that Dave could help Levin through transitions and bike and run, etc. Levin is a stronger swimmer than Dave. Beginner Tri was 250 meter swim, 8 mile bike, and 1.5 mile run.
Poemsby Sean Lause of Bluffton are included in the 2018 edition of Quiet Diamonds, the annual poetry journal from The Orchard Street Press.
Poems in the anthology were selected from entries to The Orchard Street Press annual poetry contest, a national competition.
Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College. He recently released "Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons," an chapbook that deals with fathers and sons and the post-industrial experience in the Lima-Bluffton area.
