Pandora United Methodisst Church will hold a chicken barbecue dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, March 25.
The dinner is at the church, 108 E.Washington St. (State Route 12) in Pandora. Tickets are $8.50 per person (dine-in or carry-out). For ticket information, call 419-384-3782. Some tickets will be available at the door.
Paula Scott, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce CEO, is the speaker of the Tuesday, April 3, Bluffton Lions Club meeting. The meeting is a noon in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
Several additional Lions news items are listed in the current club newsletter, attached at the bottom of this story.
Because of this, MOVE Safe Allen County will conduct a Spring Awareness Campaign to help remind motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians to share the road and to do it safely.
Lima/Allen County has seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities and serious bicycle crashes. Low visibility, distracted drivers, and people that are distracted while walking on streets and sidewalks cause many of these crashes.
Laura Galley, a Bluffton University senior food and nutrition major, will present “Nutrition Assessment of Kenneth Butler Memorial Soup Kitchen, Hancock County, Indiana” during an 11 a.m. Forum on Tuesday, April 3, in the Reading Room of Musselman Library.
Galley, a native of Indianapolis, Ind., will discuss her departmental honors project including an assessment of the food quality at the soup kitchen where she worked as an intern during the summer of 2017.
Mercy Health announces that the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals annual awards program has named St. Rita’s Medical Center as among the highest performing hospitals in the nation.
In addition to being listed among the top large community hospitals, St. Rita’s was also named as an Everest Award winner, which is an honor given to hospitals that have achieved both the highest current performance and the fastest long-term improvement over five years.
Amy Jean Doty, 60 of Bluffton, died March 21, 2018, at Bridge Hospice Care Center in Findlay. Amy was born Aug. 6, 1957, in Lima to the late Lewis and Margaret "Peggy" (Cook) Wilgus. On March 26, 1977, she married Thomas Doty and he survives.
Amy graduated from Spencerville High School. She had been a secretary for First Mennonite Church in Bluffton from 1977 - 1983 and then was co-owner/operator of Doty's Auto Repair in Bluffton from 1983 - present.
She was a member of the Bluffton EMS for 10 years.
