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MHCO Service Group has April 24 barbecue fundraiser

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 11, 2021 - 11:12am

The Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio Service Group will hold a chicken barbecue fundraiser from with curb pick up 4 to 6 p.m., Saturday, April 24, at Bubba C BBQ, 158 N. Jackson St., Bluffton.

Proceeds will support the purchase of a handicap accessible van to help MHCO elders attend area doctors’ appointments and family related trips that would not otherwise be possible.

With the barbecue fundraiser held last year along with support from area businesses, churches, and others the Service Group has raised close to $30,000.

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Events
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Bluffton Boy Scouts food drive on Saturday

Leave items for pickup on your front porch by 9 a.m.
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 11, 2021 - 9:30am

Bluffton Boy Scout troop 256 will “scout for food” on Saturday, according to Brad Taylor.

Bluffton scouts will canvas the community to pick up donations placed on front porches.

Canned food and non-perishable items may be donated. As in previous years, the scouts are collecting food that will be donated to the Bluffton Community Assistance Program’s food pantry, located in the St. John’s United Church of Christ.

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Regional news
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Emmanuel UCC fish fry March 12

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 11, 2021 - 9:26am

Emmanuel United Church of Christ, 8375 Phillips Road, Bluffton, will hold a fish fry from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 12. Tickets are $9 each.

This is a drive-thru take out only (no dining in) and you may pay with you pick up your meals. No tickets are needed

Meal includes four pices of fish, cheesy potatoes, green beans, apple sauce, desseert and tartar sauce.

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Worship
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John Ulrich Amstutz and Katharina Amstutz

Our Swiss connection - part 17
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 11, 2021 - 6:48am

This is the 17th installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.
This column’s focus is on John Ulrich Amstutz, a farmer and tradesman, whose farm was located on the south side of the Allen-Putnam County Line Road, just east of where the Suter Morning Star Cider Press is today.

On his farm, John U. had a jewelry shop, clock shop, cider press, cane press for sorghum and a machine shop. He was also an undertaker and made over 400 coffins in 43 years.

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Columnists
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Sensus will replace 1,450 Bluffton water meters

Meters installed last summer cost the village $400,000
Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 4:39pm

Remember last summer when village employees replaced the water meter in your lawn?

The project involved 1,450 meters, each containing a radio transmitter that sends water usage by household to the village for monthly billing purposes. That project took all summer to complete.

This fall, after discovering some glitches in about 277 of the radio transmitters, Sensus, the company serving the contract announced that it will replace all 1,450 radio devises in the meters at no cost to the village, according to Jesse Blackburn, village administrator.

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Regional news
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Montez Archer named to the D3football.com Team of the Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 10, 2021 - 4:13pm

 Bluffton University freshman Montez Archer Jr. (Detroit, Mich./Martin Luther King) followed up his Heartland Conference Player of the Week by being named to the D3football.com Team of the Week.

Archer had a career day in just his second collegiate football game on Saturday. The starting cornerback was one of six players from the Heartland Conference to be honored nationally this week. He helped lead the Beavers to a 49-14 road thumping of Manchester University on Saturday, March 6, 2021.

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Bluffton University
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