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The top bowling game and series scores at Southgate Lanes for the week ending April 4 are attached to this story.

Guy Neal will discuss his 2012-13 review of his roles as a Bluffton University faculty member and coach during an April 11 campus colloquium. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.

The churches of Pandora and Gilboa are offering food boxes for households in the Pandora-Gilboa School District. The boxes are designed to provide nine meals for a family of four.

In order to pick up a box, you must register by calling 419-384-3038 by 5 p.m. on April 15th.  Boxes will be available to be picked up on April 26th, the last Saturday of the month, at 11 a.m. at the Grace Mennonite Church located at 502 East Main St., Pandora.

Purse Bingo is coming to Bluffton at 7 p.m. on April 24, at the middle school cafetorium. 

Tickets, $30 each, are available at Riley Creek Pharmacy in Pandora or Greg's Pharmacy in Bluffton, or by calling 419-303-8262. All proceeds will go to the Stephanie Spielman Breast Cancer Research fund at OSU.

Bluffton University will host the annual Riley Creek Festival beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 12, in the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.

“Ducks of the Round Table” is the theme of this year’s festival, which includes games, inflatables, live music and other entertainment. The event is free—except for lunch—and open to the public. Lunch, to be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., is $8.25 for adults and $4.50 for children.

It’s clear that spring arrived in Bluffton as indicated by reports in Monday’s Bluffton’s council agenda.

Consider:

   • Go Green is scheduled to begin grinding brush in the Spring Street brush dump.

   • The village service department will turn on water at the village parks this week.

   • Bluffton’s spring clean up is set for May 17-26. Dumpsters will be placed in the Spring Street brush dump.

   • On March 31 the last of the previously frozen service lines in the village finally thawed.

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