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Smart Hearts sets meeting schedule

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2011 - 5:33am

Smart Hearts, a heart health education and support group at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay, has set their spring meeting schedule. Meeting dates, topics and presenters are:
Feb. 7 - "If you can't stand up, stand out!" - Video by Mike Schlappi
March 7 - Congestive heart failure - Linda McCoy, RN
April 4 - Implantable cardiac defibrillators & pacemakers - Kristi Kohli, RN
May 2 - Heart care 2011 - Dr. Jerome Beekman

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Junior class selling Pirate tee shirts

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2011 - 5:23am

The Bluffton High School Junior Class is selling Bluffton Pirate t-shirts with an exciting new logo on them as a Post-Prom fundraiser.

The shirts come in red or black. Samples of the t-shirts are on display in the high school cafeteria.

Order forms can be picked up and orders placed in the high school office or at Sports Warehouse. The order deadline is March 1, 2011.

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Regional news
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Time for a swim

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2011 - 4:35am

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Here's a photo appropriate for a cold winter day. It shows Bluffton youth on inner tubing on the Buckeye. Paul Diller took this color slide photo. Can anyone identify the swimmers or the era of the photo? (Jim Diller collection)

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Historical Bluffton
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Anyone who dismissed the power of small change look at this Pennies for Peace figure: $2,886.51.

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2011 - 4:00am
Third graders on the way to the bank

Anyone who dismissed the power of small change look at this figure: $2,886.51.

That's the amount of money collected at the Bluffton Elementary School from Dec. 1 to Jan. 14 for the Pennies for Peace Program, service learning project. Click here to read earlier story on this event.

According to Beth Raeburn, teacher in charge of the project, donations came in the following amounts:

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People
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Two new stamps coming to Bluffton post office

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 24, 2011 - 3:27am
Lunar new year stamp

Two new postage stamps are available in Bluffton this week.

On Jan. 22, the U.S. Postal Service issueed the fourth of 12 stamps in its Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Rabbit begins on Feb. 3, 2011, and ends on Jan. 22, 2012.

On Jan. 27 a stamp recognizing the 150th anniversary of Kansas statehood will be issued.

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Regional news
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Shadow boxing

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 23, 2011 - 8:09pm
Shadow boxing

The January sun creates interesting shadows on an Sunday afternoon in Bluffton.

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