Trinity Lutheran Church, Jenera,will host a Red Cross blood drive on
Saturday, April 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Trinity Lutheran School
gym, 105 Allen Street.
Phone 1-800 Red Cross to schedule an appointment or visit www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: TRINITYJENERA.
Bill Gordon, executive director of the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, GOBA, shares a laugh with local volunteers who chair various aspects of the June 21 event. Gordon spoke to the Bluffton chamber on Friday and met with chairpersons following the breakfast. GOBA anticipates 2,500 bicyclists spending the day in Bluffton on June 21.
Fifty years ago this week Bluffton experienced the sound of “a thousand freight trains.”
That sound was the Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, tornado.
At 9:45 p.m., it ripped across the rural Richland and Orange Township landscape. It was like no other natural disaster experienced prior or since then in this community.
Had the tornado’s path been one mile north it would have struck the Village of Bluffton. Had it been 600 feet farther north it would have hit 32 planes parked at the Bluffton Airport.
Dr. Diana Kleman, an assistant professor of social work at Bluffton University, will address elementary teachers’ perceptions of working with children in foster care during a campus colloquium on Friday, April 17.
Free and open to the public, her talk will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall.
DELAWARE, Ohio - In the first meet-day good weather conditions experienced yet this outdoor season, the Bluffton University men’s and women’s track and field team sent representatives to Ohio Wesleyan University to compete in the All-Ohio Championship. The day produced champions, school records and a number of personal-best performances.
