Dave York Sports, Inc., of Louisville, Ky., was awarded a bid of $64,550 for installing new bleachers at Harmon Field. The bid was accepted on Monday by the Bluffton school board.
In other signification action involving funds, the Bluffton board awarded its 2011-12 school district insurance plan to Fawcett, Lammon, Recker and Associates. The contract totals $38,123 and covers fleet, property and liability insurance for the district effective July 1 through June 30, 2012.
Seven Bluffton University baseball players were honored by the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference coaches for their play on the field this spring. Junior Nick Broyles (Toledo/Whitmer) and sophomore Kyle Niermann (Napoleon) both earned first team acclaim while freshman catcher Tim Webb (Delaware/Worthington Christian) was selected to the second team. Juniors Ryan Leugers (Botkins), Kyle Trainer (Mechanicsburg), Tyler Stephenson (Springfield/Northwestern) and freshman Airic Steagall (Hillsboro) all took home honorable mention All-HCAC recognition following the 2011 season.
Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) will host its fourth annual Continuing Education Extravaganza Friday, June 3 in Marathon Auditorium at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. Registration will begin at 8:45 a.m., and the event will adjourn at 2:45 p.m.
The continuing education event is for all health care workers, and 4.25 Ohio Board of Nursing continuing education credits will be awarded for nurses.
Random thoughts, my usual fall-back blog topic, seems too, well, random. Musings sound so much more meditative, more thoughtful. Since I've been on a short four-day weekend "vacation", my time to muse meditatively has been productive.
Will someone quit talking about the weather and do something about it! In the past seven days we've experienced 2.3 inches of rain and the temperatures dropped as quick as a bull market.
Here's the past seven day weather summary from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
And we will be picking all the strawberries we can carry to the car. This is the view from the Suter strawberry patch at the corner of Bixel and Pandora Road on May 16.
