May’s “Our Version of Adult Learning,” OVAL, at Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St., includes a variety of speakers and programs, according to Tonya Meyer, director.
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Except for the English tea, classes are free and open to the public. The tea includes a minimal cost and pre-registration.
Monday, May 1, 9:30 a.m. – Carlin Carpenter, former Bluffton University football coach, will talk about his book, “Coaching Football Ain’t Easy – My Triumphs and Tribulations at Bluffton College.”
This year the foundation awarded a top Bluffton High School tutor with a $400 gift. That student is Ceandra Thurmond, a BHS senior. Here's the S.O.S. story:
S.O.S. may be a worldwide common distress signal.
But, for Bluffton fourth and fifth graders and their high school tutors, it means Students for Other Students (SOS).
“This peer-tutoring program is an important part of our intervention services,” says Tim Closson, elementary principal.
This school year 20 high school students tutored 17 fourth and fifth grade students.
Phyllis Peggy Downey, 94, died April 23, 2017, at Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. She was born on April 24, 1922, in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the eldest daughter of Bernard and Alvina (Zwiebel) Winget. In 1945, she married Royal Downey, who died in 1979.
Phyllis was raised in Orange Township and graduated from Cory-Rawson High School. She worked at Triplett Corp. during the Depression and World War II, and was later a retired farm wife.
Phyllis was a member of the English Lutheran Church in Bluffton.
