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By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School varsity softball team lost to visiting Lincolnview 15-6 in a Northwest Conference makeup game Saturday afternoon, April 30.

The Lady Pirates trailed just 7-6 after a high-scoring first three innings.

But the defending league champion Lancers plated six runs in the fourth frame, and added five more in the fifth to pull away.  

By Fred Steiner, BlufftonForever.com

If you attended Bluffton High School in the late 1950s or 1960s and took chemistry or driver’s education, Wilford Geiger was your teacher.

And, here’s an opportunity to see Mr. Geiger as a toddler.

With every hair in place, these three Geiger children pose for a portrait in 1912.

The three, from left, are Beulah Geiger Gooding, Wilford O. Geiger and Estella Geiger Pugh.

Know your trees or wish you knew them better? The Village Arboretum, located on the Lake Street shore of Cob Lake at County Line Road, has a variety of labeled trees that are rapidly responding to warmer weather. Click the underlined title to reveal the tree shown here.

During Bluffton University's spring semester--which is wrapping up with finals the week of May 1--athletes visited Bluffton elementary and middle schools for a series of "High-five Fridays."

Baseball coach James Grandy reports that at first some children didn't know what to make of the line-up of young men and women who were there to encourage them and celebrate going to school.

By April 29, he notes, children were "sprinting through the line." It proved to be a fantastic experience for the university guests and K-12 school hosts.

Five youth will be confirmed in the Christian faith on Sunday, May 1, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera.

Several members of the Bluffton Scrap Artist Quilters worked on sewing baby quilts during a recent retreat at Bluffton Town Hall, with over twenty-five quilts to be donated to Allen County Children Services in Lima.

The sewers spread out over the large third floor meeting room, where they meet on a regular basis.

Money for the fabric was donated by Thrivent.

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