ICBA Independent Banker, the magazine of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), recognized Citizens National Bank, Bluffton, as an outstanding "ICBA 400" community bank performer in its June issue.
The ranking is based on Citizens National Bank's 2011 year-end earnings and operational efficiencies.
All are welcome to the annual Swiss Day potluck and open house, Sunday, June 24.
The potluck, at Ebenezer Mennonite Church, 8905 Grove Road, at 12:30-3 p.m., features a musical program by Wilmer Sprunger and friends of Berne Ind., with an opening by the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Chorus.
Bring a dish, already hot or cold and ready to serve, and your own table service (plates and silverware). Drinks will be provided.
Western Square Dancing is coming to the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center in June, July and August, according to Tonya Myers, Center director.
The dances are:
Monday, June 25
Monday, July 26
Monday, Aug. 27
A beginner's lesson is at 6:30 p.m. followed by dancing for everyone from 7 to 9 p.m. A professional caller will be at each dance. The cost is $2 for members and $3 for non-members.
Rev. James "Jim" D. Kuhn, 79 of Lima, Ohio, died on Monday, June 18, 2012, at St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, Ohio at 5 a.m. He was a former pastor of the Bluffton First United Methodist Church.
Born Wednesday, May 31, 1933, in Burton, West Virginia, he was the son of the late Homer Kuhn and the late Phoebe (Ashcraft) Kuhn. He married Nancy Shuster Kuhn, June 29, 1957. She survives in Lima.
We continue our flight around Bluffton in the late 1940s. Here is the Grove Street-Kibler Street neighborbood. It shows just the edge of Motter Metro Park. If you examine back yards closely you will notice several clothes lines with clothes drying
