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BFR Sports and Fitness invites all community members to join it in Ohio's seventh statewide" Healthy Ohio Fitness Walk," according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.

The fitness walk takes place at BFR Sports & Fitness all day Wednesday, May 18.

"The challenge to all Ohioans is to collectively walk100,000 miles this day! Let's do our part as a community and participate in a 20- minute one-mile walk, to help reach this goal," said Ennneking.

Each participant will receive refreshments and plenty of drinking water.

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Here's a classic Bluffton centennial photo; Seated and beardless is Gerald "Tuffy" Swank, Bluffton barber. Standing behind him are the Mericle brothers, Dick, Bill and Gene.

Charles Hilty took this photo. Here's his comments:

Note that Tuffy didn't have a beard. Did he not grow one for the Centennial, or is this is posed photo taken just after the celebration ended and he's already shaved at home and the Mericle brothers have come in to get their beards shaved?

The Lady Pirates took a 17-9 loss to Arlington in stride Friday night, as Coach Gillett and the ladies mixed it up a bit.

The Pirates got on the board first, as Molly Lengyel singled to bring in Shannon McKamey from third. Arlington batted in two runs in the first to lead 2-1.

Mariah Welch started off the 2nd inning for the Pirates with a rip to center field for a double. Katie Palte blasted a double down third baseline to score Welch.

Lions from left, Willis Sommer, Fred Rodabaugh, Daryl Shields, Lowell Hostetler, Sue Shields, Jan Emmert, Morris Groman, Tammy Whitlow, John Rich, Dick Ramseyer, Jerry Szabo and Doug Luginbill

Twelve members of the Bluffton Lions Club complete the spring Adopt-a-Roadway community service project on Saturday morning, May 14, by collecting litter and other debris along County Road 313 between Hancock/Allen County Line and State Route 235.

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"The Bluffton Lions twice a year, in the spring and fall, conducts this community service to help keep America beautiful," said Dick Ramseyer.

The Bluffton Lions Club chartered in 1934 by Lions Clubs International and has 80 members.

A little off the top

Sam Reineke clips the shrubs near the door to the Bluffton High School band room. Reineke and Ed Yeager keep the school grounds trimmed this spring.

Bluffton University will offer five summer mathematics workshops for middle and high school math teachers and intervention specialists, beginning June 8.

The 23rd annual workshops, hosted by adjunct faculty member Duane Bollenbacher, are all three-day sessions, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. Each workshop may be taken for 22.5 contact hours of Local Professional Development Committee credit, at a cost of $125, or, on a pass/fail basis, for one semester hour of graduate workshop credit, for $275.

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