First National Bank, Bluffton, will hold a firecracker Friday cookout from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, July 6.
The cookout takes place in the bank’s parking lot at 112 Cherry Street. The event is free and open to the public. Serving includes hot dogs, chips and drinks.
Joyce Ann Risser, 81, died June 28, 2018, at Lima Memorial Health System. Joyce was born March 19, 1937, in Lima to the late Jesse and Lucille (Fetter) Augsburger. On June 29, 1956, she married Dale Risser who preceded her in death on March 24, 2014.
Joyce was a graduate of Lafayette High School. She was a homemaker, had previously worked at Triplett Corporation in Bluffton and attended the County Line Church of the Brethren near Ada. She enjoyed helping her husband on the farm, flowers, gardening, canning, baking and playing games with her grandchildren.
Jonathon Lamb, 37, Bluffton, plead guilty to two counts of rape on Tuesday June 26, in Hancock County Common Pleas Cour, according to Bluffton police.
The charges stem from a complaint filed with the Bluffton Police Department in May of 2017 in which officers received a report of a possible sexual assault involving a child.
During the investigation, officers learned that the incident(s) happened in February of 2017 and Jonathan Lamb was subsequently arrested and charged with one count of first degree felony rape with a specification due to the age of the child.
Several program of interest to the public are on the July Bluffton Senior Citizens calendar.
Dan Orzano of the Ohio Department of Commerce will present a discussion on investment and securities fraud. The program is at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 25.
The Hancock Historical Society will present a program at 3 p.m., Monday, July 9. The program topic is “ice cream.”
July’s dinner meeting is at 6 p.m., Monday, July 9. It is a summer picnic. The cost is $8 and tickets must be purchased by July 5. Pat and Harlan Basinger will show photos from the trip to Iceland.
Adults age 18 and up are welcome to the library’s Self Care Mini Conference on July 9 beginning at 6 p.m.
This mini-conference has a broad self-care focus, from traditional to alternative. Registrants will meet with and gather information from local businesses and organizations as well as complete activities to focus on self care.
