BFR Sports and Fitness recently hosted a Universal Cheerleaders Association commuter cheer camp.
The two-day, camp offered area junior high cheer squads professional training. UCA provides cheer camps across the midwest each summer. This year's camp featured squads from Wapakoneta and Kenton.
BFR will next host Challenger's British Soccer Camp the week of July 29. For more information about either camp, contact BFR by calling 419-358-4150.
The "Top Banana" award was given to Wapakoneta's 8th grade squad for most team spirit.
Ten Thousand Villages, 115 S. Main St., Bluffton, has a table linen sale in progress this month, according to Aphaphanh Nussbaum, store manager. The sale goes from July 15 to 31.
Boy one tablecloth and get one 50 percent off. Buy three napkins, napkin ring or placements and get the fourth free.
The Swiss Community Historical Society extends an invitation to all the descendants of Christian and Barbara Schumacher to attend the 2013 Schumacher family reunion this summer.
The event is from 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 4, at the Swiss (Schumacher) Homestead, 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton.
The society will provide pulled pork sandwiches, drinks and tableware. Please bring a dish or dessert to share if you are able.
A tent, tables and chairs will be provided along with tours of the homestead. A program some additional activities are planned.
Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1948 celebrated its 65th reunion on June 21.
Members attending were, front row from left, Ceacle Potee Shields, Peggy Eckenwiler Augsburger, Jean Burkholder Reichenbach, Ester Lugibill Brauen, Marilyn Fett Bullock and Earl Hauenstein.
Back row from left, Mary Jane Burkholder Gilliom, Mary Schmidt Amstutz, Don Herr, Maurice Garmatter and Wade Oberly.
The Hauensteins are next-door neighbors to Mustard Seed Café, 567 N. Main St. When the apricot trees at the Hauensteins began to get heavy with fruit, they asked Rhonda Moor, executive chef at the restaurant, if she would like to use apricots for a featured dish. Rhonda sent her sons, Will and Tucker Neff, across the alley to harvest the fruit.
The feature Rhonda created is Apricot Honey Crepes with almond and honey mascarpone filling.
Chay Reigle may speak for three fellow Bluffton University students when he sums up how he spent part of his summer vacation, in Phoenix, Ariz.
“In just a week,” notes the public relations major, “I beefed up my resume; got real-world experience in journalism; worked alongside professors; attended a convention filled with passionate, socially responsible people; and even got to experience the infamous dry heat.”
