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Shuffleboard anyone?

The Bluffton Shuffleboard Club will host a free demonstration and open house for all adult interested in learning the game of shuffleboard or more about the Bluffton club, according to Ralph Peterson, club president.

The event is at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 17, on the courts in Buckeye Park off Spring Street.

The club meets regularly throughout the summer for informal mixers on Mondays and Saturdays at 10 a.m., Thursdays at 4 p.m., and hosts seven tournaments during the season.

Contact Peterson, 419-348-9995 with any questions.

The thirteenth annual Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) Service of Remembrance will be held at Parkview Christian Church, 15035 State Route 12, Findlay, on Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m.

The non-denominational memorial service will honor BVHS patients and residents who died in 2013. All are welcome to attend the service, which will be followed by a reception.

Blanchard Valley Health System has received a grant from the Northwest Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for $58,374 to provide free mammograms to uninsured low and middle income women and men in Hancock and surrounding counties through the Hancock County Mammography Screening Initiative (HCMSI). The mammograms are offered at both Woman Wise Mammography in Findlay and Bluffton Hospital.

Quilted baby blankets, fabric toys, bags, pies and caramel corn, home decor, pottery, fragrances, headbands, hair clips, jewelry made from silverware, wire yard ornaments, handmade wooden tables and lots, lots more.

A MAP SHOWING THE LAYOUT OF THIS YEAR'S SHOW IS IN AN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce's 43th annual arts and crafts show takes up Main Street from the post office to the town hall on Saturday.

Temperatures in the 60s as highs and 40s as daily lows. It must be May. Here's the weather summary for the first five days of May from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

On Saturday, May 10, letter carriers in Bluffton and Beaverdam will participate in the Annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. The nationwide food drive is the largest one day food collection in the country, filling food pantries and food banks.

It is easy to help and participate. Just collect and bag non-perishable food items or paper products and or toiletries and place by your mailbox (early Saturday morning) or bring
them to the Bluffton Post Office.

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