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Bluffton Family Recreation recently completed its tournament for Session III of its indoor soccer leagues.

League champs are:

• Abcde FC - Adult Recreational League champs
• Logan's Irish Pub - Adult Competitive League champs
• Nester - High School champs
• U 15 - Bluffton Black
• U 10 - U 12 - Bluffton White

TEAMS PHOTOS FOLLOW - (no photo available for Logan's Irish Pub)
 

First National Bank partnering with Scott Basinger

Are you considering selling your home and wondering about the best way for you to list it? 

Or, are you interested in buying your first or next home, but want to make sure you have sound advice and know your options?  First National Bank is partnering with Attorney Scott L. Basinger to present a Home Buying and Selling Workshop, Tuesday, April 25, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Bluffton town hall,  154 N. Main St.

Open house commemorates anniversary later this month

Bluffton University’s Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center will host an open house to celebrate 30 years of promoting peace from 3-6 p.m. Thursday, April 20. A brief program of music and reflection will be held at 4 p.m. in the Honda Outdoor Sculpture Garden.

The event is free and open to the public.

The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center promotes the study of peace and justice, cultural understanding and nonviolent responses to conflict with an emphasis on these themes for children.

Third generation artist Kat Luginbuhl adds her own creations to the shop

Photos at the bottom of this story show some of the steps involved in creating butterfly charms. The Bluffton Hospital commissioned Kat to create several dozen  charms for Mother's Day in a special hospital donor's program.

Gallery 323, providing the community with locally created art, has reopened and offers works in several media by area artisans.

The gallery, at 323 N. Main St., Bluffton, is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursdays and Friday noon to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and by appointment.

One-year-old Garrett Bailey of Pandora participates in his first-ever Easter egg hunt during Saturday's event at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He shows his mom the egg he picked up. Garrett is the son of Maranda and Jordan Bailey. More photos of the hunt are attached. CLICK FOR A BRIEF VIDEO.

This is one of the oldest existing photographs of a Bluffton school class. It is possibly two classes combined. We know that some of the students in the photo graduated in 1903.

Supposing those students were in the sixth grade when this photo was taken, that dates this photo to the 1896-97 school year.

Several of the members of the class of 1903 are very roughly identified.

Front row: Ruth Dukes Mohler, far left.

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