Students in Todd Boblitt’s Bluffton High School Civil Engineering and Architecture class are installing a 12- by 16-foot storage building that class members designed. The building will be used to store equipment near the Ricky Matter Center. The class hand sketched ideas, designed the structure, 3D modeled, ran a cost analysis, surveyed the land, and is now constructing the shed. The shed is framed and members will continue finishing it over the next couple weeks. (Photos from BlufftonPirates.com Facebook)
By Greg Denecker
Bluffton school superintendent Note: This is from the spring school district newsletter
As we approach the end of our very different school year, I want to wish a huge congratulations to the Class of 2021.
Obviously, the end of their junior year and their senior year (as a whole) has not been normal, but they have been resilient and flexible in facing the challenges brought on by the pandemic.
John "Jack" T. Hamel, 71, died May 5, 2021, at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. Jack was born April 1, 1950, in Lima to the late Harold and Jeanette (Ricker) Hamel. On Dec. 9, 1972, he married Rebecca Walls Hamel who survives.
Jack was a 1968 graduate of Ft. Jennings High School. He graduated from Nashville Auto & Diesel College and then he received his bachelor's degree in vocational education from the University of Toledo.
Ron Headings' exhibit of wire trees is on display this month at the Bluffton Public Library. He says he began creating wire trees as a teenager and has refined his work with wire, rock and wood over the years. Here are three samples of his forest.
Your appearance on one of Bluffton’s nine pathways next week will be counted.
Don’t worry about it. It’s part of an annual “use count” of the Bluffton pathways, taking place from Monday through Sunday, May 10 to 16..
This is the 10th year for the annual May and September Bluffton Use pathway count.
Each year the study shows the use of the Bluffton paths has increased,” said Dick Ramseyer, president of the Bluffton Lions Foundation and chair of the Bluffton pathway board.
Babies will no longer be delivered at Bluffton Hospital.
Instead, labor and delivery services, which moved to Findlay in December due to the covid-19 pandemic, will remain in Findlay.
The announcement made today, May 7, from Blanchard Valley Health System follows:
Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) will maintain the consolidation of labor and delivery services to the Findlay main campus. Bluffton Hospital labor and delivery services temporarily closed in December of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
