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Agenda for Aug. 19 Bluffton School Board meeting

The Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Board of Education will meet on Monday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Bluffton Elementary Media Center.

The attached agenda includes an opportunity for the involvement of visitors, a report of transfers from the general fund to acitivity accounts, contracts for staff and substitute teachers, a policy update regarding therapy dogs in school and administrative reports.

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BEVS Summer 2024-2025 newsletter--here and in your mailbox

The following Bluffton Exempted Village Schools newsletter for Summer 2024-2025 is appearing in hard copy in mailboxes across the district. It includes a letter from Superintendent Greg Denecker, financial information for the 2023-2024 general fund, permanent improvement projects, new additions to staff (including new elementary school principal Kori Bernal), event and no school dates and contact information.

Evelyn J. Conley worked at Ada VFW Post #9381

Evelyn J. Conley, age 91, of Lexington, Kentucky, formerly of Ada, passed away on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at the Homestead Post Acute in Lexington, Kentucky. 

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Bluffton Fire Department is a huge History Day hit

Stay tuned for our photo story

By Paula Pyzik Scott

You turn on the tap and the water flows all day, every day. Is there a fire? You call 911 and the Bluffton Fire Department comes in mere minutes armed with high tech trucks and immense water power.

Shannon takes bronze in World Masters heptathalon

As shared on Facebook, Bluffton's Janean Shannon (on right) is the bronze medalist in the women's heptathalon for the 2024 World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. What's a heptathalon? Long jump, high jump, javelin, shot put, 800 meters, 200 meters, 80 meter hurdles, 

Bluffton University welcome for class of 2028 includes "Becoming Rooted" speaker

New students to be welcomed into the academic community at Bluffton University

Dr. Sarah Fedirka, associate professor of English and chair of English, philosophy and religious studies at University of Findlay, will be the featured speaker at 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, in Yoder Recital Hall as Bluffton University welcomes the class of 2028 during its Opening Convocation.

Fedirka will share “Becoming Rooted” and consider how we become rooted in community, history and ourselves. Fedirka will explore the mystery by which in letting go, we become more grounded.   

Fedirka received her graduate degrees from Arizona State University where she studied Anglo-American literary modernism. Fedirka has been at UF for 13 years and teaches a variety of courses, some of her favorites being American literature survey courses. Believing in the interconnectedness of all things, Fedirka deeply appreciates how words make meaning.  

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