Paula Scott, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce CEO, is the speaker of the Tuesday, April 3, Bluffton Lions Club meeting. The meeting is a noon in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
Several additional Lions news items are listed in the current club newsletter, attached at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton Boy Scouts from Troop 256 and one Cub Scout collected items for the Bluffton Food Pantry during "Scouting for Food" earlier this month, according to Victoria Zeits, assistant scoutmaster of troop 256.
Nearly 2,150 items were collected from the community for the pantry.
After collecting the bags, the Scouts delivered and sorted the items. There were over 23 participants (scout youth, scout adults, and scout family members).
Lynda Best of Bluffton is one of eight winners of this year’s Jefferson Awards from Allen County.
Locally the awards are presented by the Lima News, Your Hometown Stations, the United Way of Greater Lima and Husky Energy.
One of the eight Allen County winners will be chosen March 27 to attend the national Jefferson Awards banquet, held in Washington, D.C.
Jefferson Awards are given to local unsung heroes alongside national figures. The mission of the awards is to power others to have maximum impact on the things they care about most.
By Grant Pepper - Ada Icon
Ada head football coach Bob Olwin told the Icon on Monday night that he will be retiring from coaching, following an illustrious 39-year career that ended with five years in Ada. He will be retiring from teaching physical education at the end of the school year as well.
Ada High School posted a job opening for the head varsity football coaching position on the OHSAA’s website on Monday.
An artwork by Alyssa Casemier, Bluffton High School artist, was recently accepted for exhibit in the Ohio Governor’s Art Show in Columbus, according to Vickie Garmon, BHS art teacher.
To advance that far, the piece was first judged the district level and then advanced for consideration to be judged again at the state level.
Alyssa had two of her works advance from the district judging. The second piece was not accepted for the Governor’s show.
Five swimmers from the Bluffton area qualified for the Great Lakes YMCA Zones Swimming Championship at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio March 16-18.
Landon Armstrong and Riley Verb swim for the Putnam County YMCA swim team under assistant coach, Bob Verb of Bluffton.
Jackson Bowlus, Allison Diller and Xavier Diller swim for the Lima YMCA swim team coached by April Dorman of Bluffton. In the summer, they all swim for the Bluffton Sardines.
