A birthday card shower is planned for Bonnie "Marie" Bourquin, a Mennonite Memorial Home resident, Bluffton, who turns 100 on July 5.
The soon-to-be centenarian was born in Columbus Grove to Ray and Floyd Bogart. She grew up on a farm on Road 12 0, between Columbus Grove and Kalida.
On June 5, 1938, she married Gladwin Bourquin, who died in 2002.
She worked in Toledo and then Michigan. After marrying her husband, who was from Archbold, the couple eventually lived at 213 N. High St., Columbus Grove.
Tbe annual Bluffton Lions Club family picnic is planned for 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, at Twin Lakes Park, rural Bluffton. The club will provide meat, drinks and ice cream.
Club members may bring table service and a covered dish. Persons attending are also invited to bring swim suits and fishing poles.
Members should RSVP to Barbara Plaugher, 419-204-2242 or [email protected] by July 10.
Brandon Anspach, an Ohio Northern University senior mechanical engineering major from Rawson, was a member of the ONU Baja SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) team that finished fifth overall at Baja SAE Wisconsin 2012, held June 7-10 at the MGA Research Corporation Proving Grounds in Burlington, Wis.
The event featured 95 colleges and universities and was sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Like the Arlo Guthrie ballad says, "You can get anything you want, at...the Bluffton farmers' market." Including cultured black tea. The market is open every Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Citizens National Bank parking lot.
