The Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District has issued the attached 12-page Spring 2025 newsletter which is also available as a print mailer. Content includes:
Director's Corner "Core Focus" by Tyler Black
2025 Summer Day Camps
Naturalist Notebook by Dan Hodges, "It Starts at Home!
Spring programs for March, April and May
Ottawa Metro Park Campground season opening in April
Donations
Cooperative Park Improvement Grant awards for 2025
Volunteer training in March and May
Volunteer opportunities
Pulling of invasive weeds at Motter Metro Park is scheduled for May 5. Volunteers can sign up via the Volunteer Portal, VicNet.
The Bluffton Exempted Village Board of Education will hold a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 20.
The agenda includes an executive session to consider an employment action and to approve the offer to purchase property from Eduardo and Amber Morales at 134 North Lawn Ave.
Above) 2025 Chocolate Walk photos by Jamie Nygaard
By Paula Pyzik Scott
Jim Enneking, director of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce provided an update on recent chamber activities at the organization's February breakfast meeting including the following details on board members and the February 6 Chocolate Walk.
The chamber board is currently made up of the following representatives from local businesses.
Let it Go was written for Disney’s Frozen. The original song was performed by Idina Menzel, but a shorter version was recorded by Demi Lovato for radio. The original Frozen film was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen.
Even though we have had some freezing days over the weeks, the weather is not dampening the spread of infections.
Ohio is one of many states experiencing a quad-demic. These four viral infections are COVID-19, influenza (flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and norovirus. COVID-19, flu, and RSV are all respiratory viruses, but norovirus is a gut virus.
BLUFFTON – Three Bluffton High School senior basketball standouts earned all-district honors in voting recently conducted by the District 8 Basketball Coaches Association.
Senior center Ayla Grandey was selected to play for the Red team in the girls District 8 All-Star Game Sunday, March 30 in the Elida Fieldhouse at 6:30 p.m.
Grandey was named first team All-District 8 for Divs. I-V. She led Bluffton in scoring and rebounds. The Pirates girls basketball team ended up 13-10.
