September 2013

The Bluffton Schools will hold a district-wide open house on Monday evening, Sept. 30.  The elementary school will be open from 6 – 7 p.m., the middle school from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., and the high school from 7 – 8 p.m.

Several community organizations will have booths set-up in the elementary gymnasium and information will be available on ways to provide support to the school and community.

South Bentley Road beyond the Bluffton Stone Co., will be closed all next week for culvert repair. No through traffic will be permitted.

llen County Engineer employees will be replacing the culvert located just south of the stone quarry on Bentley Road. The road will be blocked and no traffic will be able to get through. Vehicles will be able to exit / enter I-75 at Bentley Road without problem.

The work is anticipated to take one week.

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UPDATE:

Thanks to our two viewer comments, we've re-thought this photo. We believe it is the Interstate 75 overpass over the abandoned AC&Y Railroad, east of Bluffton.

The northbound bridge is completed and, actually traffic is one-way on that bridge, while the southbound bridge is still under completion in this photo.

HERE'S WHAT WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT, AND THE INFORMATION BELOW IS NOT CORRECT:

Citizens National Bank, 102 S. Main St., Bluffton, will hold a customer appreciation day Friday, Sept. 20.

The event is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It features free pulled pork sandwiches, brats, chips and cookies. Plus, customers may enter to win door prizes including a grill package.

 

Bluffton's newest cookbook is from an institution with the youngest residents. Bluffton Child Development Center released "Kitchen Classics" cookbook this fall. Copies are available at the Center for $12.

The book has 84 pages of recipes plus an index of recipes and additional information like ingredient substitutions, counting calories, and even napkin folding.

All recipes are from students (with help from their parents).

Here's a sample:

Five Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
From Jessica Dailey, mother of Carter, Caitlin and Coby

Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio (MHCO), Bluffton, was selected as the winner of the “Excellence in Service (Best Practices)” award, presented at a luncheon on Sept. 12, during the LeadingAge Ohio annual conference in Columbus, according to Laura Voth, chief executive officer of MHCO.

Each year, LeadingAge Ohio invites nominations for various awards, which are formally presented at the annual fall conference. 

Lindsay Steiner graduated with a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on Aug. 17.

Steiner successfully defended her dissertation, “The available means of design: A rhetorical investigation of professional multimodal composition,” in July 2013. She is currently working as Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

A celebration of the South Asia ministry of David and Carrie Hartman is hosted at The Centre At Bluffton, 601 N. Main St., from noon to 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 6, by English Lutheran Church. Carrie is the daughter of Bob and Sue Fett of Bluffton and English Lutheran is her home church.

The community is invited to participate in this event, which will provide an opportunity to learn more about the lives of families in South Asia, as well as to support the ministry of the Hartmans as they seek to "build bridges of peace" in the midst of those families. 

 

Richard "Dick" Wayne Young, 61, of Bluffton died Sept. 18, 2013, at his residence. He was born April 17, 1952, in Bluffton to Edison  and Hilda Binkley Young. His mother survives in Bluffton. 

He graduated from Cory-Rawson High School in 1970. He worked at Hills Department Store, Findlay, for 30 years and then at Home Depot. 

He is also survived by his brother, Roger L. Young of Arlington, a nephew, Ryan Young, a niece, Renae Young, and great nephews, Gage and Dayton Young.  Richard was preceded in death by his father, Edison Young.

Frances Maree Gibson, age 72, died on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 3:36 p.m. surrounded by her loving family at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay.

She was born on October 29, 1940 in Wharton, Ohio to Roy D. and Helen D. (Bostater) Searfoss and they preceded her in death. On November 21, 1956 she married Troy E. "Gene" Gibson and he survives in Ada.

Frances was a homemaker. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Lima.

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