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Jean Snyder will receive a life membership into the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association during the Monday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m. dinner meeting. Jean turns 90 this month.

The Aug. 10 program is about the centennial year of the Dixie Highway, that once included Main Street Bluffton.

For details on the dinner and lots of other August events at the Center, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Gardeners of the Bluffton Pandora Area will tour Don and Jody Brauen’s gourd growing and crafting farm business at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4.

Details about the tour are in the August Edelweiss News, the club newsletter, which is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

A Pandora-Gilboa High School graduate is headed to Harvard thanks to a $100,000 RMHC/HACER National Scholarship.

Olivia Velasquez, the 2015 PG valedictorian, is the scholarship recipient. She is the daughter of Rick and Amy Velasquez of Gilboa. She is one of only four students to receive the national scholarship.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) and Jerry Lewis McDonald’s representatives presented Velasquez in a formal ceremony last week in the Ottawa McDonald’s.

Bluffton’s American Heritage Girls Troop OH2505 finished their first full year in May. 

This photo, taken at the May awards ceremony, includes,fFront row, left to right: Kya Hixon, Kynzie Ewing, Kaylee Fensler, Aubrey Clevidence, Grace Lemley, Eliana Hixon.

Back row, left to right: Zoe Shank, Abbie Lemley, Adelaide Kinn and Ivy Augsburger

They recently took advantage of one of the recent rain-free days to earn much of their Outdoor Skills badge.  

By Sophia Marcum

After discovering that Anna was named University of Toledo’s Board of Trustees Student Member, I asked the 2013 BHS grad about her new position and aspirations.

Where do you attend school and what are you studying?
I am entering my third year at The University of Toledo where I study Public Health.

You may consider yourself a swinger, but area you a "golden swinger?"

ADDITIONAL PHOTOS BELOW

As the Bluffton Senior Center’s front window display commemorates its 45th anniversary, its former Golden Swinger Band takes center stage this month in the Center's window.

The band was started by Vera Core in 1979. She was director of the Senior Center at the time and thought a band would be a fun activity for the members.

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