Pavel Shekochikhin, Bluffton, and a student at Apollo Career Center, proved his skills in welding recently. He won second place in the Skills USA Welding competition. He advances to state competition. Shekochikhin is a senior in the Apollo Career Center welding program.
Bluffton University sends students abroad every year to learn about diverse cultures. But the university rarely gets to thank the hosts for those cross-cultural experiences in person.
The opportunity arose this week, though, when two visitors from Botswana came to Bluffton to see for the first time the campus and community that sent groups of students to the African nation in 2007 and 2009, and will do so again this May.
Moderate icing possible for the northern AEP Ohio area is predicted Thursday night and early Friday.
A developing winter storm over the southern plains on Thursday will track into the Ohio Valley by Friday.
While its still to early to pin down exact amounts preliminary information suggests the possibility of moderate freezing rain accumulations (perhaps 1/4" - 1/2" ice) in a band from Muncie, Ind., to Canton.
On Wednesday evening, according to AEP's forecast, it appears the main icing threat is north of Columbus.
Bluffton High School girls' basketball season ended in the opening sectional tournament round on Feb. 22. Leipsic defeated Bluffton 62 to 48 in a contest at Ottawa-Glandorf.
A box score of the game plus a season summary may be found as attachments at the bottom of this story.
Pandora council voted to retain the services of Scott Basinger, village solicitor for 2011. The action took place at Pandora's most recent councl meeting.
To view minutes of the meeting open the attachment at the bottom of this file.
