June 2012

BFR Tball Registration Underway

Summer Tee Ball registration is open until June 28. Boys who will be ages 5 or 6 and girls who will be ages 5, 6 or 7 by June 1 are welcome to register. BFR Tee Ball will be held at the Bluffton Village Park on
Tuesday and Thursday nights beginning July 5 and continuing to August 2.
Cost per child is $30 ($15 BFR member) and includes a team t-shirt.

Mark Bourassa of Bluffton is one of seven contributors to "The College Union Idea, Second Edition," published in May.

It is the only comprehensive history of the college unions from their early start as debating societies to modern-day facilities at the heart of campus.

Originally edited by Porter Butts in 1971 ("Beginnings" through the 1960s), seven individuals collaborated to add 1970-2010:

Alice I. Wingate, 92, of Bluffton died at 5:40 a.m. June 1, 2012, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born Nov. 24, 1919, in Putnam County to Clarence and Esther Slusser Jones. On Oct. 4, 1940, she married Paul R. Wingate and he preceded her in death on March 1, 2006.

Mrs. Wingate was a homemaker and retired from the Bluffton High School Cafeteria after 16 years and had worked at Triplett Corp., Bluffton. She was a member of Ebenezer Mennonite Church, Bluffton and the Bluffton Senior Citizens. She was a graduate of Bluffton High School.