Clifford Edwin Marsh, 70, of Lakeview, Ohio and formerly of Bluffton passed away peacefully on February 19, 2025.
A service to honor and celebrate Cliff’s life will be held at 4:00 p.m., Saturday, March 8, 2025 at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton. Visitation will be on Saturday, March 8, 2025 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
The Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District has issued the attached 12-page Spring 2025 newsletter which is also available as a print mailer. Content includes:
Director's Corner "Core Focus" by Tyler Black
2025 Summer Day Camps
Naturalist Notebook by Dan Hodges, "It Starts at Home!
Spring programs for March, April and May
Ottawa Metro Park Campground season opening in April
Donations
Cooperative Park Improvement Grant awards for 2025
Volunteer training in March and May
Volunteer opportunities
Pulling of invasive weeds at Motter Metro Park is scheduled for May 5. Volunteers can sign up via the Volunteer Portal, VicNet.
Bluffton High School has announced that on Tuesday, February 25, Juniors will be taking the ACT. In order to have the best testing environment for the Junior Class, there will be no school for 9th, 10th, and 12th grade students.
This is the second in a series of four columns about the four greatest Pirate men's basketball games I ever saw. In the first column, Ron Lora and Jim (Spike) Berry wrote about the game against State-Ranked Bellefontaine (Fourth in Class A) in which the Pirates prevailed in the old Bluffton High School gym. In this column Spike Berry writes about a second game in that same 1954-1955 year, the tournament game with Bluffton going against undefeated Willshire.
The Bluffion-Willshire Game
Spike Berry: Thirteen teams played in the Non County Tournament with three teams going to the District at the Celina Field House. The Bluffton Pirates made the trip as one of the three teams, the first trip for the Pirates since 1942. We played the game at the Celina Field House, and 69 years later the Celina team still plays there.
