Bluffton council approved the hiring a Lesley Ducat as Bluffton’s newest full-time police office. Action was on Monday.
Ducat, of McComb, is a 2017 Siena Heights University graduate where she obtained a bachelor of arts with a criminal justice major. She also holds an associate’s of arts degree from Owens Community College with a major in criminal justice.
She interned with the McComb Police Department and has volunteered with several non-profit organizations including Share the Warmth, Habitat for Humanity, Cherry Street Mission and Ronald McDonald House.
Bluffton EMS has received a $40,000 grant from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), according to Jan Basinger, EMS chief.
The grant is one of 110 safety grants issued this summer by BWC. The grants enable groups like the EMS to purchase equipment designed to reduce or eliminate workplace injuries and illnesses.
Bluffton’s grant goes toward the purchase of:
• one power cot with a one-power load system, and
• one power load for an existing power cot
The cots will be used in the two Bluffton EMS ambulances.
A painter from Klausing Painting, Ottawa, rolls paint on the sanctuary ceiling of First Mennonite Church. The painting project is part of a summer renovation of the sanctuary. The next photo in this series shows the entire sanctuary.
Bluffton school board will act on the hiring of a new teacher at its Thursday board meeting. Amanda Temple will be offered a one-year contract to teach sixth and seventh grade science. She will replace Lauren Moser, who has resigned.
If hired, Temple will join the system with a master’s, step 3, one-year contract at $44,023 per year.
Abe Cramer is the featured musician in a Sing and Celebrate program at Riley Creek United Methodist Church, 7102 Road M, Ottawa.
The program is at 7 p.m., Sunday, July 15, according to Rev. Duane Kemerley, pastor.
Other musicians for the evening are Laura Coburn, piano and Jason Horstman, opening singing.
The congregation also celebrates the step-by-step milestones in a project to expand its building and facilities. The architectural plans for the proposed building addition will be displayed and the footprint outlined.
