The Bluffton Hospital Auxiliary will hold their annual volunteer recognition banquet Friday, May 1, beginning at noon at The Centre of Bluffton, 601 N. Main St., Bluffton. The awards ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m.
At the event, auxiliary members will be recognized for their hours of volunteer service to the hospital. Overall, the Bluffton Hospital Auxiliary includes 54 volunteers who gave 9,285 hours to the hospital in 2014.
The theme of this year’s banquet is “All That Jazz.” Entertainment will be provided by the Bluffton High School Jazz Band.
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the ONU Jazz Band on Thursday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts.
The ONU Jazz Band, under the direction of Bluffton High School band director David Sycks, will take a stroll down memory lane as it explores “ONU Jazz Through the Years.”
Wilmena L. Bigelow, 83, of Bluffton died April 27, 2015, at 7:36 p.m. at her residence. She was born Sept. 28, 1931, in Haviland to Clifford and Margerie Bartels Kent who preceded her in death.
She was a nurses aid and had worked at Helping Hands, St, Rita's Medical Center and Shawnee Manor. She was a member of the Orioles # 173 and Eagles # 370 both of Lima and the Tri-County Family Assembly of God, Bluffton.
Dick Boehr works a shovel at the Shannon Cemetery during the planting of four trees during Bluffton's Arbor Day celebration. The Bluffton Tree Commission conducted the ceremony. Click here for an additional photo and information about the Shannon Cemetery Arbor Day project.
Bluffton University’s annual May Day ceremony is moving to a new time this year—1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 2—but its traditional elements remain the same, including the crowning of a king and queen and the Maypole dance by first-year students.
Filling those roles this year are seniors Jeremy Amstutz of Cassopolis, Mich., and Julia Thomas of Springfield, Ohio—the May Day king and queen—and 16 first-year students who will perform the Maypole dance.
