LEXINGTON, Va. - On Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th of March, the Bluffton University men’s and women’s teams opened their outdoor campaign at the Washington & Lee Track & Field Carnival with a bang, bringing home two event champions, a host of qualifiers for upcoming championship meets, as well as a number of personal-record performances.
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will award cash prizes and gifts-in-kind valued at $7,000 to winners of its Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition. The awards night, open to the public, is from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 21, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall. Winners will be announced at 7 p.m.
BCE calls this year's event Bluffton Oscars and Dessert Wars.
Tig Intagliata tries on the sorters hat at a Harry Potter mystery dinner held Sunday night at First Mennonite Church. With the assistance of some adults, the senior high youth group held the mystery dinner as a fundraiser for their upcoming participation in the Mennonite Church USA's conference in Orlando, Fla. Helping Tig register guests are Lori Nester (left) and Rhonda Winstead. In the Harry Potter books and movies, the enchanted sorters hat sorts students into Hogwarts houses. Shannon Thiebeau is director of youth ministries at First Mennonite.
Ohio Department of Transportation released the following details of Interstate 75 construction around Findlay. The following impacts to traffic related to the reconstruction and widening of Interstate 75 through Findlay and Hancock County are scheduled to occur in the coming weeks:
Edith Lenore Burkholder, 92, died March 18, 2017, at 3:15 a.m. at Lima Convalescent Home. Edith was born June 21, 1924, in Columbus Grove to the late Jesse and Helen (Moore) Lentz. She married Jim Burkholder who preceded him in death on April 17, 1993.
She had worked at Terry's in Bluffton and Northland Lanes in Lima.
