Basketball anyone?

Looking at the daily high and daily low temperature for the past seven days, it would appear that Mother Nature is playing a game of basketball. See for yourself:

Date High Temp. Low Temp. Prec.

July 13 85 66

July 14 89 65

July 15 91 71 trace

July 16 89 71

July 17 91 66

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This is just a note of praise for Blanchard Valley Hospital. I'm amazed that some people go off to some "big city" for surgery and/or treatment, when we have the very best right here in Bluffton and Findlay, at the Blanchard Valley Hospital association.

I have just finished going through cardiac rehabilitation at BVH, and I can't say enough good about the staff and facilities right here in Findlay.

Chad Kinnear is a sales engineer for Latrobe, Pa.-based Kennametal Inc., covering much of northwest and west central Ohio from his home in Lima. For two weeks in June, though, he had a rare opportunity to see how his company, a supplier of metal-cutting tools, does business on the other side of the world.

Kinnear, who is pursuing a master of business administration degree at Bluffton University, was among the eight members of a delegation that represented the university on a study tour of China.

Four Bluffton University students are serving as pastoral interns this summer in churches from Florida to Idaho as part of Mennonite Church USA's Ministry Inquiry Program.

Participating from Bluffton are juniors Chalsi Eastman from Norwalk, at Bay Shore Mennonite Church in Sarasota, Fla.; Ethan Hershberger from Upper Sandusky, at Upper Milford Mennonite Church in Zionsville, Pa.; and Megan Neal from Arlington, at Oak Grove Mennonite Church in Smithville, along with senior Matt Weaver from Millersburg, Ohio, at First Mennonite Church in Aberdeen, Idaho.

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Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1969 held its class reunion this past weekend.

Attending, front row: Karlyn Reichenbach Holt, Rita Reiman Teders, Beth Buist, Valerie Devier Eikenbary, Sue Neuenschwander Cupples, Shirley Brauen, Nancy Tripplett Swart, Rosemary Spinelli, Carolyn Neufeld Huffman

Second row: Mary Basinger Heyneman, Mary Hanthorn Gratz, Judy Sumney Dailey, Rene Shelley, Loretta Niedemire Bessette, Erika Gellert

The new Bluffton Hospital Emergency Department entrance is now open. The entrance used in the past is now closed. That's the official word this week on the hospital construction progress.

Other construction updates this week include:

Former Bluffton resident Marcia Travis Kilgore, born, July 20, 1945. died of a heart attack on July 4, 2010 at her home in Aurora, Colo. A memorial service was held July 10, in Aurora. She is survived by her husband, Jerry and children, Nicole Anderson and Brett Kilgore. Local survivors are brothers, John (Tony) and Dave Travis, and sister Betsey Angus of Bluffton.