Bluffton Senior Citizens Association announces it winter session of Our Version of Adult Learning (OVAL) classes, according to Tonya Meyer, director.
The following classes are held at the Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., and are free (except Feb. 5 class with a pre-registration and fee) and open to the public.
Thursday, Jan. 11 – 9:30 a.m. – Bob Gordon-Hancock, “How the credit card banking industry works.”
Do you have a great idea for a business venture, but aren’t certain where to begin?
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs wants to help people who have business start-up ideas to get those ideas off the ground.
To help launch those ideas and to generate interest in the 2018 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition, BCE launches a weekly “Talk Back” series.
“It’s where business owners and other professionals meet and lead question and answer sessions about starting and maintaining a small business,” said Eric Berdin, BCE director.
The following impacts to traffic related to the reconstruction and widening of Interstate 75 through Findlay and Hancock County are occurring or scheduled to occur in the coming weeks:
Dates to Note: (Dates reflect a one-day delay due to weather from the original schedule.)
Dec. 18 – Traffic will be affected overnight in the southbound direction during preparations for removal of contraflow lane, all Findlay exits closed (details below).
In a surprise announcement, Judy Augsburger resigned her position as Bluffton mayor at the conclusion of Monday’s council meeting (Dec. 18).
Her resignation was not on the agenda distributed on Friday. However, it must not have been a total surprise to the council because at the end of the meeting she was presented a plaque for her years as mayor by Richard Johnson.
Upon the resignation of a mayor, the council president assumes the mayoral position. Johnson, council president, was immediately sworn in as mayor upon Augsburger resignation.
John Lewis Patterson, 54, died Dec. 18, 2017, at Lima Memorial Health System. John was born Jan. 7, 1963 in Lima to John and Barbara (Kohli) Patterson. On Aug. 27, 1982, he married Rachelle "Shelly" (Deerhake) Patterson who survives in Bluffton.
John graduated from Allen East High School and retired as a machinist at Gasdorf Tool in Lima. He was a member of the County Line Church of the Brethren where he played drums in the praise and worship band. John also sang in the Kings Glory Quartet.
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BLUFFTON, Ohio - Senior ANDREW HUNTER (Arlington) has been named the Heartland Conference Player of the Week after leading the Beavers to a thrilling 86-83 overtime win at Franklin College on Saturday, Dec. 16.
Hunter knocked down 7-of-12 from the field, including a blistering 5-of-10 from distance for a career-high shattering 25 points in Bluffton's 86-83 OT win at Franklin. He finished with three steals, three rebounds and two assists.
Lester A. Brien, 92, of Bluffton formerly of Kenton, died at 9:16 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017. at the Bluffton Mennonite Home. He was born on May 4, 1925 in Marion County the son of the late Emmit and Nellie (Clinger) Brien. On July 18, 1945, he married his wife of nearly 70 years, Vera L. Dyer and she died on May 26, 2015.
Lester is survived by his children Linda (John) Harbison of Bluffton, James Michael (Brenda) Brien of Woodville, and Timothy Arden Brien (friend Paula Wray) of Rock Island, Ill.
