Thank you so much to the voters of Allen County for the passage of our Senior Citizens Services Levy! The seniors thank you as well. We will now have just the one levy in Allen County to go before voters every 5 years. It includes a renewal of our .5 mil levy and an increase of .5 mil. We will stop collecting on a .3 mil levy that was also in place. The agencies that share this levy include Bluffton Senior Center, Delphos Senior Citizens, Allen County Council on Aging, and Senior Citizens Services of Lima.
Dr. Jeffrey Bouman, director of the Service-Learning Center at Calvin College, will discuss “Serving to Learn, Learning to Serve: Deepening Connections between Pedagogy and Practice, Locally and Globally” in a Bluffton University Forum on Nov. 17.
Free and open to the public, the program will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.
Bluffton University is hosting a discussion of the Syrian refugee crisis at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
The program, featuring speaker Corine Dehabey of US Together in Toledo, is free and open to the public.
US Together, which also has offices in Columbus and Cleveland, is a nonprofit agency that was founded in 2003 in response to the needs of refugees and immigrants in central Ohio. It coordinates, organizes and initiates services to those who are unable to stay in their native countries.
It's Nov. 22, 1969, in downtown Bluffton. Main Street businesses are in the midst of the most major makeover in the town's history. Awnings are being added to businesses.
The businesses in this photo are, from left, Rice's Tot Shop, Bluffton News, Bruce Shelly Nationwide, Dr. Allan Yoder, optometrist, and Greding Hardware.
Interesting to note that after 46 years there's still a newspaper, insurance office, optometrist and hardware in those businesses.
Dick Boehr took this photo. Notice the steps at the Tot Shop (today Bluffton News).
Cheryl and Thom Craig and Larry Core will be at the Bluffton Elementary School at 8 a.m. on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, to show 4th graders the correct procedure on folding the American flag.
Members of Bluffton American Legion Post 382, Boy Scouts and Bluffton High School students will meet on the lawn by the high school and College Avenue at 10:30 a.m. for a ceremony about Veterans Day.
Fred Rodabaugh. Commander of the Post will speak briefly and Misha Groman, will speak about the correct procedure of retiring a flag. Flags will be burnt in accordance to regulations.
