BFR is offering a Red Cross Babysitter Training Class on Friday, July 15, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
Youth ages 11 to 15 are welcome to participate in a one-day training clinic. It will cover topics of working with small children, safety concerns and basic first aid.
Kelly Honse, Red Cross instructor, will lead the clinic planned for 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at BFR. Cost for the training is $43 ($38 BFR member) and includes the clinic, snack, training notebook and CD-Rom and emergency kit. Contact BFR 419-358-4150 to register by July 11.
Lots of chrome, tail lights with large fins, white sidewalls and toss in some Model T Fords. It's coming Friday, June 24. It's Bluffton Lions Club's 44th annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-in.
All activities are held on Main Street and College Avenue, downtown
Sharon Garmatter of the Bluffton Relay for Life reports on some last-minute activities planned this weekend.
"We are still wanting cake donations for the cake walk. Persons may contact Tracy Steele at 419-358-0155," said Garmatter.
"We are trying something totally different this year ," she added. "We are having a rave on Friday night after the fireworks, approximately 11 p.m. (it may be later if the fireworks are delayed).
"This will be aimed at the teens-early 20s. This is a totally legal rave revved up with music, sugar and caffeine," she said.
Visit www.relayforlife.org/bluffton for more details on Bluffton's Relay for Life held Friday and Saturday, June 24-25.
One way or another, we are all affected by cancer and raising awareness is crucial to finding a cure. In that spirit, the Bluffton community will host the 2011 American Cancer Society's "Relay For Life" on Friday and Saturday, June 24 and 25. The event will be held at Bluffton University's Salzman Stadium with the theme, "Birthdays for a Cure."
A photo exhibit hosted by Bluffton University will showcase the work of Will A. Triplett and reveal life in Bluffton as captured in photographs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
