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Southgate open registration is closed

Posted by Paula Scott on June 22, 2022 - 5:08am

The Southgate Open, an annual fundraising event for local non-profits and families, has filled all golf team slots for the August 13 event at Bluffton Golf Club.

Southgate Lanes also announced: 

  • Joe Lewis music on the patio
  • Team payments: $300 in advance; $340 on the day of the outing with 100% of the extra $40 going to the Bluffton food pantry

Last year this outing donated just under $10K.

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Events
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Are you getting your BFR discount?

Posted by Staff on June 21, 2022 - 12:19pm

Have Bluffton Family Recreation membership or been considering one? The nonprofit fitness and recreation center offers membership discounts to:

Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce members

Clergy

School employees

Veterans

And to employees of:

Blanchard Valley Health System

Bluffton University

Citizens National Bank

First National Bank

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Bluffton Family YMCA
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Alven and Marilyn Osting (Brunn) to celebrate 70th wedding anniversary

Posted by Staff on June 21, 2022 - 12:10pm

Alven and Marilyn Osting will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary on July 4, 2022. Alven and Marilyn were married July 4,1952 at Delphos St. John’s Church in Delphos.

They also will each be celebrating their 90th birthdays later this year. Marilyn was born October 28, 1931 and Alven was born November 15, 1931. They share four boys and one girl, Phil, Jeff, Rob, Chris and Cheryl.

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People
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Healthwise mobile clinic is June 24 at BPL

Posted by Staff on June 21, 2022 - 12:10pm

On the last Friday of the month, the Ohio Northern University Healthwise program provides a mobile health clinic with free health screenings at Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main St.

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Health Services
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Second life ahead for historic barn

Posted by Paula Scott on June 21, 2022 - 8:30am

The barn at Dan and Cindy Basinger's is getting ready for a second life at the Schumacher Homestead, 8350 Bixel Rd. This week crews are carefully disassembling the 1850s Swiss Settlement barn so it can be repurposed as a Heritage Center for the Swiss Community Historical Society. 

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Letter: Volunteerism furthers the mission of non-profits

Posted by Staff on June 21, 2022 - 7:46am

Volunteerism! Most of, if not all non-profits depend on the volunteers to further their mission. Without volunteers the Boy Scouts of America would not be able to serve millions of youth nationwide over the past 120 years with the leadership, character, citizenship and fitness training that makes youth prepared for life and the leaders of tomorrow.  

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Letters
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