Four members of the Bluffton Creative Writers Club, won awards at the Ohio Poetry Day Association’s 77th annual Ohio Poetry Day Contests, held Oct. 24-25 in Troy.
Local award winners include:
•Ruth Naylor, Bluffton
•Lynn Saunders, Elida
•LaRee Little, Elida
•Christina Walton, Pandora
Naylor led the Evan Lodge Workshop on Oct. 25. Poets present read their winning poems from the other 35 contests.
Bluffton University’s music department has announced the soloists for its 119th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, in Founders Hall. Soloists are Dr. Helen Allen, soprano; Stephanie Schoenhofer, mezzo-soprano; Justin Berkowitz, tenor; and Lance Ashmore, baritone.
Hilty Preschool and Child Care Center, Pandora, recently received a Two-Star Step Up to Quality Award from the State of Ohio, according to Heather Sanchez, director.
Step Up to Quality is Ohio’s rating system for learning and development programs.
Alice V. Niswander, 89, of Bluffton died 5:35 am, Nov. 12, 2014, at Bridge Hospice, Findlay. Shewas born July 3, 1925, in Lima to the late Amos and Phoebe Steiner Oyer. On Aug. 28, 1948, she married H. Ray Niswander and he preceded her in death Dec. 13, 2010.
