CLICK FOR A VIDEO. Roman Shank gives Santa a grin. Mr. Claus was busy Tuesday evening at the Bluffton Public Library. He arrived on the 1923 Studebaker truck and talked with youth of all ages. Additional photos in this series show a photograph from the library lawn looking in the window, Braden Weyer, Madelyn Agner and on the truck Amos and Audra Smith.
GROB's program prepared students for technician-level careers in robotics, computerized numerical controlled (CNC) machines, computer aided drafting and design (CAD) and the total flexible manufacturing network.
GROB Systems, 1070 Navajo Drive, Bluffton, holds its next apprenticeship open house at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8. GROB apprenticeships provide students opportunities to be paid while they learn.
Apprentices are enrolled at Rhodes State College in Lima. At Rhodes, they earn a company-paid associate’s degree while working and earning an income.
Lay leaders, youth groups, Sunday school classes, families, retirees and young adults are needed to assist with worship services and Bible Studies at Mennonite Memorial Home and Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton.
Opportunities at Mennonite Memorial Home include:
• Assisting residents getting to and from worship services
• Leading a worship service
• Leading the music at a worship service
Conducted by Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services
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The holidays can be a particularly difficult time to cope with the loss of a loved one and the Tree of Remembrance memorial service provides a forum where families can come together to express their grief, but also find peace for years to come.
Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services will hold its Tree of Remembrance memorial service on Sunday, Dec. 9, at The Centre at Bluffton, 601 N. Main St., for those who have lost a loved one this year or in years past.
Persons attending may begin arriving at 1 p.m. A brief memorial service is at 2 p.m.
Frances Delta Scoles, 105, died peacefully of natural causes on Dec. 3, 2018, at Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. Frances was born Aug. 12, 1913 in Bluffton to the late Alfred and Adele (Grant) Criblez. On Dec. 6, 1936, she married Guy Scoles who preceded her in death in August of 1982.
Frances graduated from Bluffton High School and attended Bluffton College. She was a homemaker and was a lifetime member of St. John's United Church of Christ in Bluffton where she was active in the Women's Groups and was a Sunday School teacher.
