All Bluffton Icon News

The Village of Bluffton is the new owner of property between Taco Bell and Comfort Inn. The land was presented to the village as a gift valued at $50,000 from its owner, George Kentris of Findlay.

Richard Ramseyer, president of the Bluffton Pedestrian and Bike Pathway steering committee and a member of the Bluffton Lions Foundation, made the announcement during the June 13 Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Ramseyer handed the deed of the property on behalf of Kentris to Mitch Kingsley, who represented the village at the breakfast.

This is the third of a three-part series on winners of the 2014 Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition. Todd Larson is the second place winner. For more information about the annual competition contact: [email protected].

You don’t have to ask Todd Larson to tell you about his passion for barbecuing.

He’ll volunteer it.

Big engines, big gasoline appetites, and boy are these beauts! Main Street Bluffton will boast this familar scene on Friday afternoon. It's the 47th annual Bluffton Lions Club Festival of Wheels. A story with more details is on this page.

Roger Hoffman, plant manager of Peerless Ohio Glove, went to work on June 11 just as he had for the past 15,000 days, or so.

That’s 41 years on the job in the same building with the same company.

Most viewers have switched jobs several times, but not Roger. Asked if he thinks of himself as the “ultimate Baby Boomer” because he works for the same company he started with in 1973, he answers: “No!”

“I actually have coffee every morning with guys I know were also at the same job close to, as long, or longer than me,” he says.

One of Bluffton's signature summer events - 47th Bluffton Lions Club Festival of Wheels Cruise-In takes place on Main Street Friday.

The show includes antique cars, classic cars, golf carts, tractors, fire engines, motor cycles, Cushman's plus an arts and crafts area.

Rudi Steiner, a 1961 Bluffton High School graduate, may well deserve a master’s degree in Bluffton automotive science 1945-1961. During this period he watched who drove what and sometimes, why. Here’s a summary of the Bluffton’s chrome and fin vehicle age from one who observed it first hand. This column is reprinted from "Bluffton, A Good Place to Miss."

By Rudi Steiner

Pages