• Club BFR after school program
• Virtual 5K
• Adult co-ed volleyball
• Final week of summer camp
Bluffton Family Recreation is busy concluding summer programming while getting ready for the fall. Here's what coming:
Club BFR
This after-school program is for 5 to 12-year-olds and takes place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Busing from the elementary to BFR is part of the program. The cost is $40 for members and $80 for non-members. A youth’s one-month membership is $20.
Bluffton's population expanded today with the return of Bluffton University students for the fall semester. The latest fashion statement this year is masks. Here are several photos of move-ins at Hirschy Hall.
Governor Mike DeWine announced Thursday, August 13, that Allen County has moved to Orange Level 2 Alert. Allen County currently meets the following two indicators:
• New cases per capita (over 50/100,000)
• Proportion of cases not in a congregate setting
In addition to the indicators Allen County’s per capita case rate dropped to 96.73 cases/100,000, below the benchmark of 100/100,000 that kept Allen County in Red Level 3 Alert last week.
The all-NWC season schedule is attached as is a tournament playoff bracket.
By Cort Reynolds
The Northwest Conference athletic directors met Wednesday and came up with a unique new season schedule and tournament in response to the pandemic.
The previous schedule with non-league games to start out with has been totally scrapped. For 2020, the NWC has been split into two divisons, East and West, with a short three-game pool play schedule preceding a league tournament that will guarantee each school three more games.
Jane Ann Kinsinger, 71, died Aug. 12, 202, at Bluffton Hospital. Jane was born July 27, 1949, in Bluffton to Orville and Naomi (Shrider) Basinger. On Aug. 12, 1966, she married Mark Kinsinger and he survives.
