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Free school supplies available on Aug. 1

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 28, 2015 - 12:16pm

Free school supplies are available to children on the free and/or reduced lunch program within the Bluffton School District.

Distribution is from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 1, at St. John's United Church of Christ, 223 W. College Ave., Bluffton. Call 419-358-5641 for details.

This is a program of the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.

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Regional news
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Can you identify this intersection? It's from 1973

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 28, 2015 - 8:28am

This photo requires a little imagination. Dick Boehr snapped the picture on Feb. 17, 1973. His view is from what is today the A to Z Meats property on the southwest corner of Main and Jefferson.

He is aiming at the Sohio service station, across the street (most recently Kirtland's Auto Sales). the two houses north of Sohio are about to be razed. In their place will be a Lawson's   store. It eventually will be owned by Kirtland's Auto.

Those are some pretty big gas hogs in the photos.

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Historical Bluffton
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$100,000 scholarship goes to PGHS's Olivia Velasquez

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 27, 2015 - 6:53pm

A Pandora-Gilboa High School graduate is headed to Harvard thanks to a $100,000 RMHC/HACER National Scholarship.

Olivia Velasquez, the 2015 PG valedictorian, is the scholarship recipient. She is the daughter of Rick and Amy Velasquez of Gilboa. She is one of only four students to receive the national scholarship.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) and Jerry Lewis McDonald’s representatives presented Velasquez in a formal ceremony last week in the Ottawa McDonald’s.

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People
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LuLu's opening day

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 27, 2015 - 6:27pm

It was a busy morning at Lu Lu's Diner, 114 E. College Ave., Bluffton. The diner's opening day was on Monday. Lu Lu's is Bluffton's newest business.

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Lu Lu's Diner owner: "We couldn't have asked for a better opening day"

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 27, 2015 - 5:51pm

“How exciting is this? Everyone is amazing. We couldn’t have asked for a better opening day. We were busy all day.”

That’s how Justin Musil of Bluffton’s newest business, Lu Lu’s Diner, talked about the diner’s opening day on July 27.

The diner, at 114 E. College Ave., formerly housed Ideal Images. An earlier announcement of its arrival was reason for great conversation and anticipation in Bluffton.

Tom and Sheena Dotson, of Tommy Tires, own the building and are leasing it to Justin and Amy Musil of Elida.

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Business
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American Heritage Girls Troop finishes first full year

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 27, 2015 - 1:37pm

Bluffton’s American Heritage Girls Troop OH2505 finished their first full year in May. 

This photo, taken at the May awards ceremony, includes,fFront row, left to right: Kya Hixon, Kynzie Ewing, Kaylee Fensler, Aubrey Clevidence, Grace Lemley, Eliana Hixon.

Back row, left to right: Zoe Shank, Abbie Lemley, Adelaide Kinn and Ivy Augsburger

They recently took advantage of one of the recent rain-free days to earn much of their Outdoor Skills badge.  

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