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At 7:00 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, Bluffton Varsity Football will play Patrick Henry at Donnell Stadium in Findlay,1300 S West St, in Regional Finals

Presale tickets are available at www.ohsaa.org/tickets  Prices: $11 Adults and $5 Students.

Cash only tickets are available at the gate. Season passes and reserved seats are not valid for playoff football.

Gates open at 5:30 p.m. The game will be live streamed at: https://bit.ly/FindlayTrojansAthleticsTV

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, will hold a special service of thanks on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, at 9:30 AM.  

The readings are Deuteronomy 8:10-18 and Philippians 4:10-20. The sermon will be from Luke 17:11-19, the account of Jesus healing the ten lepers and only one thanked Him. 

Hymns will be "All People that on Earth Do Dwell; O Bless the Lord, My Soul; Now Thank We All our God; SIng to the Lord of Harvest; and I Am Trusting You, Lord Jesus" 

AE downs Devils, to face Pirates in title game Saturday

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON – The Bluffton High School girls basketball team tipped off its season with a convincing 49-23 win over visiting Cory-Rawson in the semifinals of the annual Lewis Family McDonald’s Holiday Classic tournament Thursday night, November 21

The semifinals were moved up one day so as not to conflict with Bluffton playing Patrick Henry Friday night in the region 22 football finals. 

The Pirate girls (1-0) will take on backyard foe Allen East (1-0) in the championship game Saturday evening at approximately 6:30 p.m.

The two rivals have faced off in the last two McDonald’s tournament finals. AE won last year, while the Pirates took the crown in 2022 with a three-point win. ▶︎

More than 100 chorus members have been rehearsing for Bluffton University's 130th and 131st performances of Handel's Messiah. Performances are on Friday, December 6 in Bluffton and December 7 in Findlay. Free, general admission tickets must be reserved at www.bluffton.edu/tickets

9 other Pirate football players honored

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON – Bluffton High School senior linebacker Landen Worcester was recently named one of three Div. VI All-Northwest District Defensive Players of the Year for football by a local Ohio Prep Sportswriter Association media panel.

The 5-11, 201-pound Worcester was also named first team all-district after leading the Pirates to a 12-1 record (6-1 Northwest Conference) and their second straight regional final playoff appearance.

Cody Depweg of Coldwater and Grant Smith of Patrick Henry shared the Defensive District Div. VI Player of the Year honor with Worcester. ▶︎

Blanchard Valley Health System is pleased to announce it has received Level 7 achievement for the Acute survey selection in Digital Health Most Wired Survey results from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

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