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Mark Alliman (left) talks with Kevin Haver following Friday's chamber breakfast. Haver is director of the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District of Allen County. He updated chamber members on the parks during the breakfast.

The Pandora United Methodist Church will hold a free community meal Wednesday,  April 27 from 5:30-7 p.m. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E. Washington Street, Pandora. The meal this month is provided  by Lita’s Leaders and friends. The menu is tacos, rice, refried beans, salsa and chips, blueberry muffin and beverage.

April 9, 2016
By: Ryan Schadewald, sports information assistant

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FLORENCE, Ky. - The Bluffton University baseball team traveled to Kentucky for a home game with Mount St. Joseph on Saturday, April 9, but it was the Lions who took advantage of the change of venue with a 9-2 victory in the HCAC series lidlifter. The Beavers fell to 6-16 overall and 1-8 in the Heartland Conference on a bitterly cold Saturday, while MSJ upped its season mark to 16-7 and 5-5 in the HCAC.

Several Bluffton High School winter athletes were named Northwest Conference scholar athletes recently.

Scholar athletes are determined as follows:

• Must be a letter winner in the sport.

• Gold level: 3.5 or higher GPA during season of the sport.

• Silver level:  3.0 to 3.49 GPA during the season of the sport.

Basketball cheerleaders

Gold – Kaity King, Emily Stratton, Kylee Leugers, Kelli Leugers, Allison Wise, Victoria Hover.

Silver – Lydia Skelly

Girls’ basketball

Bluffton Lions will sell shopping spree tickets at Community Market on Fridays and Saturdays, April 22-23 and April 29-30.

Each $5 ticket enables the purchaser one ticket in a drawing for a free shopping spree to take place on Saturday, May 7.

Proceeds from the ticket sales go to the Bluffton Lions scholarship fund. Multiple $500 scholarships are given each year to graduating seniors from Bluffton, Pandora-Gilboa and Cory-Rawson schools.

Jenera Trinity Lutheran School’s students will present a journey through the Magical Land of Oz, as they take the stage next weekend in Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre’s original musical production of the “Wizard of Oz."

Performances are at 7 p.m. Friday, April 15, and  and Saturday, April 16, at Trinity Lutheran School’s gymnasium. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are free, but donations will be welcome at the door to offset costs.

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