Blanchard Valley Health System is successfully encouraging traveling nurses to sign on as associates for the long term.
The ranks of traveling nurses nationwide increased after the COVID-19 pandemic, with more nurses wanting to take these temporary roles for financial and scheduling reasons.
A special Thanksgiving Day service will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 23.
Pastor Matt Nowak will lead the service based on Psalm 129. Readings for Thanksgiving are 2 Samuel 7, Philippians 4:4-9, and Luke 7:36-50. The Choir will sing “Sing to the Lord of Harvest.” Other hymns will be “How Great Thou Art, Now Thank We All Our God,, Great is Thy Faithfulness and For the Beauty of the Earth.”
The church will be decorated with harvest items and is handicapped accessible. More information is at www.tlcjenera.org or 419-326-4685.
After the rematch, both teams boast 12-2 records; the two Pirate losses coming to Grove by seven points apiece.
By Cort Reynolds
FINDLAY__The Bluffton High School football team rallied furiously in the second half, but a last-ditch drive stalled in Columbus Grove territory to end their season with a 17-10 loss to the rival Bulldogs in the Division VI, Region 22 final thriller on a wet and cool Friday night at Donnell Stadium in Findlay.
BHS Financial Literacy classes visit local non-profit shop
When it comes to Christmas presents, it may seem like kids these days are only interested in electronics. Not so with the students in Michaeline Lovell’s financial literacy classes at Bluffton High School, who picked out some hypothetical gifts for themselves on a field trip to Ten Thousand Villages store, on Main Street, Bluffton. These high school seniors enjoyed selecting coffee, tea, chocolate, jewelry and other gifts that are considered Fair Trade.
Although Ten Thousand Villages looks like a regular gift shop, it is a non-profit with a mission: to eradicate poverty and preserve the environment. Fair Trade is a movement that changes the way international trade works through better payment, decent working conditions, ecological preservation and a fairer deal for farmers and workers in developing countries. Believe it or not, the first Fair Trade store in the United States was created right here in Bluffton fifty years ago.
Bluffton University’s Fall Chamber Ensemble Concert will be presented at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19 in Yoder Recital Hall.
Under the direction of Dr. Roy Couch, the Bluffton University Brass Quartet will perform a varied program including music by Gustav Holst, George M. Cohan, J.S. Bach and Zequinha Abreu as well as traditional folk songs.
Northwest Ohio – Wildlife District Two
During the early two-day white-tailed deer gun hunting season in the disease surveillance area, State Wildlife Officer Ryan Kennedy, assigned to Hardin County, received a report of a hunter with no hunter orange. Officer Kennedy located the bowhunter, who was sitting in a tree stand dressed in full camouflage. The bowhunter was issued a citation for not wearing hunter orange during a deer gun season. The subject pleaded guilty and received a $200 fine. It is important for every hunter, regardless of hunting implement, to wear hunter orange during any gun season.
