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Rockport United Methodist Church will hold their annual Memorial Day service on Monday, May 26, 2014.

The service will start at 11 a.m. in the cemetery and will progress to the church. The guest speaker will be Greg Coleman, Pastor of Cairo and Rockport United Methodist Churches.

The church is located at 5505 Rockport Road, Columbus Grove. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The May Student of the Month at Bluffton High School is 12th grade student Andrew Lee, son of Dennis & Cindy Lee, Bluffton. He has a current GPA of 3.820.

Andrew is a member of Math Club, SADD Club, Spanish Club and Show Choir. He also attends a weekly small group Bible study.

He has been a member of the track team and the football team for the past 4 years. He was captain of the football team, was a 3-year varsity award winner in both football and track and was a scholar-athlete for the past 3 years.

Lucie Fett, student of Krysti's Music Studio, performed on piano during the breakfast portion of the May 10 chamber breakfast meeting in the town hall. Each month one of Krysti's students performs on keyboard at the event.

Hilty Home, Pandora, is the recipient of a $39,600 Safety Intervention Grant check, presented May 12 by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), according to Jason Cox, Hilty Home administrator.

Steve Buehrer, administrator, CEO of Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, presented the check.

The grant enables Hilty Home to purchase lift systems to protect employees from injury by easing the process of transferring patients.

The Village of Beaverdam will dedicate its new town hall at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 18, according to Roberta Beemer, Beaverdam mayor.

The new town hall is located at 101 W. Main St., Beaverdam and will be open to the public in an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Construction of the new town hall was begun in 2013 and was completed earlier this year.

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Remember Bluffton College's Madrigal Singers? Here they are from the 1977-78 school year.  There are several Bluffton-Pandora residents in this group:

Right to left: Vickie Altstaetter, Jenny Lugibihl, Lawrence Matthews, Sandy Stemen, Jeff Boehr, Dave Follett, Roger Gill, Curt Roeschley, Jon Krehbiel, Paula Smith, Diane Brickman, Jodi Lugibihl and Cindy Ramseyer.

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