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Fall sports practice starts Aug. 1

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 30, 2015 - 10:28am

The official start of fall sports practices is Saturday for member schools of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Aug. 1 is the annual start date for all OHSAA sanctioned fall sports, which include girls tennis, girls and boys golf, girls and boys cross country, field hockey, boys and girls soccer, volleyball and football.

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Registrations underway for Sept. 5 BFR 5K

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 29, 2015 - 5:48pm

Bluffton Family Recreation is now accepting registrations for this year’s Labor Day 5K, held Saturday, Sept. 5, according to Joseph Beagle, BFR director.

This year’s race starts at 9 a.m. A kid’s fun run and walk is at 10 a.m.

Age groups in the run are:
14 and under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59 and 60 and up.

Runners who pre-registered by Aug. 29 pay $25 and receive a t-shirt ($20 with no t-shirt). Kid’s run registration is $5.

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Bluffton Family YMCA
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Maple Crest hobby show Thursday evening - 16 residents show their stuff

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 29, 2015 - 5:36pm

You’ll see quilt runners, carved elephants, Indian artifacts, oil paintings, brass rubbings and lots more at the Maple Crest Senior Living Community hobby show, from 6:30-8 p.m., Thursday, July 30.

Free and open to the public, the show will be in the Maple Crest Patio Room, 700 Maple Crest Court, just off Augsburger Road, Bluffton. Sixteen Maple Crest residents will display their hobbies.

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Learning the basics

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 29, 2015 - 5:19pm

It's British Soccer Camp week at Bluffton Family Recreation. Here are a mini soccer camp for 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds. Camps run through Friday. The camp offers several class levels.

 

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Beavers earn AVCA Team Academic Award

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 29, 2015 - 2:27pm

BLUFFTON, Ohio - The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today that 752 teams have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2014-2015 season. This number once again breaks the previous year's total of 676 and sets a new all-time high for this award. 

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Bluffton University
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Everett Collier brings the Ride Across America to Bluffton for a day

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 28, 2015 - 9:43pm

7 p.m. program at First Mennonite Church, open to the public, enables bikers to share their stories.

Bluffton is Wednesday’s stop on the 2015 cross-country Fuller Center Bike Adventure: Ride Across America.

Nearly 50 bicyclists will pedal into town mid-morning from Winchester, Indiana, where they spent yesterday. The trip covers about 90 miles. They will be in Bluffton overnight.

Their Bluffton visit is thanks to Everett Collier, who rode the 2014 adventure from coast to coast.

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