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By Black Swamp Area Council on Feb. 4

Five area Boy Scouts were recognized over the weekend, according to Mike Metzger, Bluffton Troop 256 scoutmaster.

The Black Swamp Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America held its annual banquet honoring the Eagle Scout Class of 2016 on Feb. 4.  

Brice Metzger, Kaden Reneker, and Jacob Thompson of Troop 256 Bluffton, Noah Woodruff of Troop 176 Lima, and Ethan Fleming of Troop 226 Pandora. 

Standing from left, Kaden Reneker, Brice Metzger, Noah Woodruff, Ethan Fleming, Jacob Thompson.

Gardeners of the Bluffton Pandora Area will meet at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the lower level of the Bluffton Public Library.

Several projects are planned for 2017. Those are explained in the attached newsletter.

Featured on cable TV's Treehouse Masters

How’s your backyard tree house?

Bluffton builder Cory Pinks went out on a limb to fix a tree house in Findlay. Next thing you know, he’s featured on Treehouse Masters, on cable, shown on the Animal Planet Network tonight (Friday, Feb. 3) at 10 p.m.

Pinks, of CPC Contracting, Bluffton, and Richard Watkins of 1st Class Siding, Harrod, were selected from 871 entries to create a complete, top-to-bottom, renovation of an old tree house in Findlay.

Here are births in January reported by the Bluffton Hospital.

Offered from Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio

Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, Bluffton, is accepting applications for the Barbara Fleming Memorial Nursing Scholarship.

The scholarship is meant to promote the career of nursing.  Therefore the scholarship money may be used toward a degree as a Licensed Practical Nurse, a degree as a Registered Nurse, or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. The scholarship is to be used to pay school related expenses toward any of these degrees.

The scholarship offers a minimum award of $500, and will be paid directly to the vocational school or college where the student is enrolled.

"Kinnegoe Bay Cross" part of Deland Sculpture Walk

Judith Greavu, former member of the Bluffton University art faculty, recently had her work “Kinnegoe Bay Cross” installed in Deland, Florida.

Greavu also has installed “Arts Spirit” at The Deland Sculpture Walk near the Museum of Florida Art in Deland, Florida. This towering outdoor work evoked a dancing spectacle that suggested influences of Henry Moore and Louise Bourgeois.

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