It was a day to visit the past...to have lots of fun, run a 5K, stop at a Home Expo, paint a pumpkin, watch a drama, visit a quilt show, do some shopping downtown, buy a pumpkin pie at auction, and get your face painted.
LOTS OF PHOTOS AND VIDEOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY -
It was Bluffton's 10th annual Fall Festival. Events took place at Maple Crest, Mennonite Memorial Home, BFR Sports and Fitness, Bluffton Hospital, Bluffton Elementary, Bluffton Farmers' Market, First Mennonite Church and downtown Bluffton.
Richard E. Schwab, 74 died at his residence on Sept. 27, 2013. He was born Oct. 17, 1938 in Ottawa, Ohio, to the late Leonard W. and Frances G. (Conine) Schwab. On Nov. 19, 1960 he married Mary Powell Schwab and she survives.
He retired from Lima Ford Engine Plant in 1991 after 34 years. He was a U.S. Army veteran.
Bluffton University wide receiver Shawn Frost (Edison, Ohio/Mt. Gilead) was voted as the HCAC Play of the Week for week 3.
The senior earned the title after voting took place on the HCAC social media outlets of Facebook and Twitter.
Frost's winning play was a one-handed touchdown grab from junior quarterback Nick Sheehan (Monroeville, Ind./Heritage) late in the fourth quarter against Earlham helping the Beavers cap a 36-21 win in the conference opener.
The final voting tally saw Frost garnering 93 percent of the vote.
Where do you start first? Saturday's 10th annual Bluffton Fall Festival has so many choices!
The community-wide festival offers lots of family-oriented events, free and open to the public, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.
To help in your decision-making, here's the entire list of events going on all over town.
One of the activities at the Swiss Homestead during Saturday's Bluffton Fall Festival is bread baking in the society's outdoor oven. Here's a photo from last year's festival.
Bluffton Hospital is offering a new outpatient treatment that destroys pre-cancerous tissue in the lining of the esophagus.
The procedure, called endoscopic radiofrequency ablation therapy using the HALO System, was recently featured in the New England Journal of Medicine as a highly effective treatment for eradication of Barrett’s esophagus, a pre-cancerous condition that affects one to two million adults in the United States each year.
