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Beyond Budgeting (www.gobeyondbudgeting.com) will host a workshop "Leaving a Love Legacy," from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, in Room 9-10 at Shawnee Alliance Church, Lima, according to Beth Boehr, of Beyond Budgeting, 119 Vine St., Bluffton.

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Tribe players battle for open outfield spot

By Evan Skilliter

Spring training is finally underway.

I had the privilege to get the first spring training experience of my life this week at the ESPN Wide World of Sports' Champion Stadium near Orlando, Florida, where the Atlanta Braves played the Washington Nationals.

It was a day I will never forget, an early reintroduction to the best sport in the world. The sights, sounds, and smells of baseball were tickling my senses once again, after a long winter of anticipation.

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Two Afghan women-a filmmaker and a humanitarian-will discuss conditions in their native country Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13, at Bluffton University.

In the first of three events that are free and open to the public, the documentary film "Afghanistan Unveiled" will be shown at 8 p.m. Monday in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton's Centennial Hall.

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Art students in Bluffton's seventh grade created this "group grid" drawing of Vincent Van Gogh, according to Nicole Anderson, middle school art teacher.

"Each student received a small piece of a painting by Van Gogh," she said. "The goal was to duplicate and enlarge the smaller piece using oil pastels."

The students put their pieces back together in order to come up with the large composite, on display in the hallway of the middle school art department. The image is a copy of Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. It was created in January of 1889.

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Fifty-six years ago this month Bluffton High School boy's basketball team reigned as the 1955-56 non-county tournament champions. This photo was taken in the old Celina fieldhouse.

Front row, from left, Bill Herr, Marvin Diller, Jim "Spike" Berry, Jack Fields, Joe Urich, Ron Lora and Jim Fisher.

Back row from left, Dan Gleason, Ron Geiser, Don Alspach, Ralph Reichenbach, Ramon Lewis, Dave Shoemaker, Don Badertscher (manager).

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In anticipation of the trip to Hawaii later this year, the Bluffton Senior Center will host a Hawaiian meal at 5 p.m., Saturday, March 24, according to Tonya Meyers, director.

The meal will include ham with pineapple, sweet potatoes, peas, fruit salad, pineapple up-side-down cake and drinks and will be catered by Schnipke Inn, Ottawa.

There will be a presentation on the Hawaiian trip, including pictures of places that will be seen on the tour. One of the speakers is coming from Hawaii to make the presentation.

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