Bluffton council will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 2, according to Judy Augsburger, mayor.
The meet is to discuss a petition to expedite an annexation of Bluffton University’s Swinging Bridge Nature Preserve property into the Village of Bluffton.
Joyce Elaine Cupples, 74, died on Sept. 27, 2017, at the home of her daughter in Monticello, Wisc., after a two-year battle with metastatic ovarian cancer.
Joyce was born on Feb. 12, 1943, in Bluffton to the late Grant Wayne and Pauline Mae (Badertscher) Zimmerman.
She was preceded in death by her husband John Fox, of Ada, and was married to Robert Cupples on Aug. 7, 2010.
Joyce was employed as an administrative assistant at Ohio Northern University and at the Ada First United Methodist Church. After retirement, Joyce volunteered at Lima Memorial Hospital.
Marvin Foster took this impressive night time sky photo during Friday's Paulding-Bluffton HS football game. More of Foster's photos are available by clicking here.
Bluffton Family Recreation, 215 Snider Road, invites area residents to “repurpose your shoes,” though a shoe collection held Oct. 2 to Dec. 1.
This is BFR’s fourth shoe drive, which generates money for BFR programs and recycles old shoes. BFR earns money for shoes collected. Since 2014, the project has generated over $4,000 to BFR.
Last year’s drive, BFR’s largest ever, generated $2,021. Jenny Pilarowski, BFR board member, said that 25 pair of shoes fit in each bag and this year’s BFR’s goal is to collect over 200 bags.
By Cara Echols, university public relations student writer
With a bald head and graying beard, John Parent, a Bluffton University student, doesn’t look like a traditional student at first glance, and his resume looks just as different.
The senior English major with a concentration on adolescent/young adult education from Delphos, is not only a full-time student at Bluffton but also a husband, a father of seven, a full-time regional sports editor and mayor of Delphos.
