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Bluffton Public Library has an elephant and piggy extravaganza.

It's at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, at the library. The event includes games, reading stories and other fun stuff. Contact the library for more details at 419-358-5016.

For your information, the library will be closed on President's Day, Monday, Feb. 20.

Swaisgood assumes Chief Development Officer of BV Health Foundation

Blanchard Valley Health System recently made several key management changes in order to focus on organization-wide, strategic initiatives.

Linda DeArment was named the Director of Physician Services and Recruitment. DeArment will oversee all provider recruiting activities and the Medical Staff Office. Prior to accepting this position, Linda served as the Chief Development Officer of the Blanchard Valley Health Foundation for nearly 10 years.

Held in conjunction with SHANNON Service Club's sale at The Centre

Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., will hold its annual garage sale Thursday, Feb. 23 and Friday, Feb. 24 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 25, from 9 a.m. to noon, according to Tonya Meyer, director.

This large fundraiser for the Senior Center is held in February to coincide with the SHANNON Club community garage sale at The Centre.

That sale is Friday, Feb. 24 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to noon.

During audience participation segment of Feb. 13 council meeting

Two Bluffton residents received no answer to their question, “Why did the village get rid of its administrator?”

The question was posed to Mayor Judy Augsburger during the Feb. 13 Bluffton council meeting. It concerned the Jan. 23 council termination of Jamie Mehaffie as village administrator. He held the position for 13 years.

During the audience participation segment of the meeting Joe Schorer and Mitch Giesige each raised the question to the mayor.

Over the Feb. 28 Marbeck lunch hour

The Bluffton University baseball team will once again brave the razor during the  2017 Vs. Cancer fundraiser in which several members of the team, along with supporters, shave their heads.
 
The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the Commons at Marbeck Center. This is the sixth year the baseball team has raised money for the charity, and it is the team’s largest community service project.
 

Presented by University of Pittsburgh professor Feb. 28

Lynn Coghill, graduate professor and director of the master of social work program at the University of Pittsburgh, will present “Playing with Stress,” on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
 
Coghill will engage the audience with practices that play with rather than fight stress. She is a certified cognitive therapist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and complicated bereavement.

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