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Committee chair Travis Music announced the 2022 Ride to Remember from a very wintery Bluffton. Start training now--or at least mark your calendar for July 16. Watch VIDEO.

By Marla Stone RD, LD Oncology Dietitian, The Armes Family Cancer Care Center

Nutrition plays a vital role in our body’s function. It is an essential component to everyday life that is oftentimes overlooked, ignored or taken for granted. Nutrition for each individual is different and can vary based on activity level, age, diagnosis and many other factors. Cancer is a diagnosis that can bring on many changes for people. Maintaining nutrition before, during and after cancer treatment can help manage side effects and improve overall outcome.

A collaboration between Bluffton University, Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College is strengthening the three Mennonite institutions' ties and improving their respective IT departments.  

Lucas Prichard, son of Bluffton residents Pat and Kelly Prichard, has committed to play football at Yale University. Lucas is a senior at Bath High School where his father Pat teaches. 

Prichard visited six schools before deciding on Yale. The Yale Bulldogs football program is part of the NCAA Division I and is one of the oldest in the world. It began competing in 1872.

Updated February 4, 2022.

Terry Lynn Strahm, 73, went to be with his Creator and Maker on Tuesday, February 2, 2022 at Mercy Health - St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima.  Terry was born August 23, 1948 in Bluffton to Maurice and Ruth (Garmatter) Strahm.  He married Linda Bender Strahm who survives.

The following report for January 2022 Bluffton EMS activity was provided by Chief Jan Basinger.

70 Calls for service

  • 46 Medical
  • 8 Transport
  • 6 Motor vehicle accident (MVA)
  • 7 Fire
  • 2 Mutual Aid MVA
  • 1 Mutual Aid medical

49 Patients were transported in January

The Village of Bluffton EMS is staffed by an all volunteer-on call team.

For more information, contact the Village of Bluffton, 154 North Main Street, Bluffton, OH 45817. Phone: (419) 358-2066.

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