Bluffton Family YMCA

Team registration underway now

Bluffton Family Recreation is now accept teams for three holiday soccer tournaments.

Here's holiday soccer tourney schedule:
• High school boys’ tournament is Saturday, Dec. 17
• Adult open tournament is Sunday, Dec. 18
• High school coed tournament is Wednesday, Dec. 21

Contact BFR for details at 419-358-4150 or register online at www.bfronline.net

 

Bluffton Hospital and BFR know you can do it!

Icon viewers can join the “Race to Rudolph,” a Bluffton Hospital walking challenge.

The challenge is for all participants to walk 75 total miles (150,000 steps), which happens to be the distance from Bluffton Hospital to Rudolph, Ohio, and back again.

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Participants will keep a daily log of steps and record those steps on a card provided to them.

Once those steps are completed, the participant will submit the walking log for a chance to win some prizes.

Rookie sports, basketball, dodgeball, tiny tots, soccer and swim lessons

Several November and December programs for youth gett underway this week at Bluffton Family Recreation, according to Joseph Beagle, director.

Here’s the class update:
Rookie sports - Tuesdays, 4:15-5 p.m.
For ages 4-6, youngsters will play a variety of sports

K-3 basketball - Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
For youth from Kindergarten, first, second and third grades

First session starts Nov. 6

It's not too late, but time is getting short.

Team registrations are still being accepted for fall indoor BFR soccer competition. Session I is from Nov. 6 to Dec. 17. The deadline to register is Friday, Oct. 28. The team fee is $460.

New this fall is a holiday soccer tournament set for mid-December for all high school leagues. Watch for more details on the tourney.

New BFR turf installation begins Friday morning - replaces 19-year-old original

Q: Notice anything missing from this photo?

A: The turf is gone. (But, a new turf is coming.)

After 19 years and who-knows-how-many soccer matches, Bluffton Family Recreation is replacing the original turf on its indoor soccer field, according to Joseph Beagle, BFR director.

The original turf was removed earlier this month. Friday morning a new turf will arrive and installation will be underway all day.

Cheryl Hohenbrink: "She does everything to make class safe for me"

Note: The Icon recently posted a feature on Sue Sheehan and the fitness classes she instructs at Bluffton Family Recreation. Here is a follow-up on that story from Cheryl Hohenbrink:

I started with Sue Sheehan about eight years ago. Since that time, I have had six surgeries on both my feet for heal spurs plus basil cancer on my eyelid.

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