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The next BFR Sports and Fitness session of sport skill and pre-school programs will feature basketball, dodgeball, football, soccer volleyball, swim and tennis options, according to Carole Enneking, of BFR.

Youth in grades Kindergarten through grade 3 will learn fundamental sport skills in basketball (Thursdays 3:30-4:30 p.m.), football (Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 p.m.), and soccer (U7 Fun held on Fridays 5:15-6 p.m.)

Let's get out the travel guides.

The Bluffton Senior Center has a full lineup of trips scheduled for 2015 including Florida, Yellowstone, Myrtle Beach, Oregon and Australia and New Zealand.

On March 14 the group will leave for an eight-day trip to Florida with a stop at the Biltmore Estate on the way. While in Florida the group will spend a day at the Holy Land Experience, an amusement park designed to look like Jerusalem during the time of Jesus.

It looks like its going to be a great day at Bluffton Community Pre-School. A couple students share a chuckle over a book prior to class starting.

The Pandora United Methodist Church will be hosting a free community meal on Wednesday, January 28 from 5:30-to 7 p.m. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E. Washington Street, Pandora. The meal this month is provided by Seven O'Clock Flock of Pandora UMC . The menu will be Tomato Soup, Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Relish Plate and Dessert.

Blanchard Valley Hospital’s Woman Wise Mammography will be offering free screening mammograms Friday, February 6 and Friday, April 24 at Woman Wise located in the EasternWoods Outpatient Center, 15900 Medical Drive South, Findlay, as part of the Hancock County Mammography Screening Initiative (HCMSI).

Appointments for free mammograms will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to those who qualify. Women and men must meet eligibility criteria related to age, breast cancer risk and household income.

To learn if you qualify and to schedule an appointment, call 419.423.5451.

The emphasis was on perspective in “Ebola and Fear: A Public Health Perspective,” offered by Dr. Ross Kauffman Jan. 6 in a Bluffton University Forum.

Outlining the disease’s history, biology and impact since the ongoing outbreak began in Guinea, in west Africa, the assistant professor of public health noted that Ebola has killed almost 8,000 of the more than 20,000 people it has sickened.

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