Hilty Home, Pandora, is the recipient of a $39,600 Safety Intervention Grant check, presented May 12 by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), according to Jason Cox, Hilty Home administrator.
Steve Buehrer, administrator, CEO of Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, presented the check.
The grant enables Hilty Home to purchase lift systems to protect employees from injury by easing the process of transferring patients.
The Village of Beaverdam will dedicate its new town hall at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 18, according to Roberta Beemer, Beaverdam mayor.
The new town hall is located at 101 W. Main St., Beaverdam and will be open to the public in an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Construction of the new town hall was begun in 2013 and was completed earlier this year.
Remember Bluffton College's Madrigal Singers? Here they are from the 1977-78 school year. There are several Bluffton-Pandora residents in this group:
Right to left: Vickie Altstaetter, Jenny Lugibihl, Lawrence Matthews, Sandy Stemen, Jeff Boehr, Dave Follett, Roger Gill, Curt Roeschley, Jon Krehbiel, Paula Smith, Diane Brickman, Jodi Lugibihl and Cindy Ramseyer.
The Northwest Conference track meet takes place Thursday and Saturday, May 15 and 17 at Spencerville High School.
On Thursday, the field events will begin at 4:45 p.m. with running events start at 5 p.m. Saturday field events start at 10:30 a.m. and running finals at 12:30 p.m.
Results will be posted on Baum's page as soon as possible following the meet events on Thursday and Saturday.
Bluffton High School's baseball team defeated Allen East 3-0 in the opening sectional tournament game on May 10. The Pirates face Ottawa-Glandorf on the road on Thursday, May 15.
Julian Harnish, a senior at Bluffton High School, shared his gift of music with Maple Crest elders in an outstanding piano recital on May 11.
The classic composers were covered with the performance. Julian began piano lessons at age 5 and has been playing ever since. His current teacher is Lucia Unrau of Bluffton University, and his next recital will be at Bluffton University on May 18.
Among those attending his Maple Crest performance was his former piano teacher, Wanda Pannabecker, a Maple Crest resident.
