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This report from AEP:

A weather disturbance over Missouri will track toward Indiana today. Thunderstorms associated with the disturbance will encounter increasingly warm, unstable air over eastern Illinois and Indiana this afternoon.

AEP meteorologists expect a broken line of strong thunderstorms currently in western
Illinois to gradually intensify and expand northeast into I&M Power by late afternoon and 60
mile per hour wind gusts are likely with the most severe storms in the line. The storms will reach western Ohio this evening.

The Bluffton Senior Center will host classes on balance put on by the Area Agency on Aging.

"A Matter of Balance" can help reduce the fear of falling and increase the activity levels of older adults who have concerns about falling. Classes will start Tuesday, Sept. 9, from 1 to 3 p.m.

It's not the August weather we are used to, but we'll take it: highs in the 80s and lows in the 50s and 60s.

Here's the daily weather summary so far in August, provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

This is part of a series of stories featuring local organizations that received Bluffton, Beaverdam, United Way funding.

The Bluffton Release Time/Weekday Christian Education (RT/WCE) classes were introduced in the fall of 1924. The first teacher was Miss Ruth Yoder who had training and a master’s degree in religious education. She taught in the classroom for the grade school children at Bluffton.

One of the most active support groups to Bluffton schools is the Elementary PTO. Here is an overview of their plans for the coming school year and a summary of activities performed last year. For more information contact Melissa Knauss, president, 419-659-5436 or [email protected].

The 2014 Perseid meteor shower will peak between Aug. 10 and 13. A waning Gibbous Moon (the Moon's phase after a full moon) may make it harder for observers to see the shower.

This information is compliments of the website: timeanddate.com 

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/perseid.html

Despite this, astronomers suggest that observers try their luck to catch some Perseids before dawn on Aug. 11, 12 and 13.

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