US Banker (also known as American Banker) magazine has listed Pandora Bancshares, Inc., the Pandora-based single-bank holding company of First National Bank of Pandora among the Top 200 community banks and thrifts in the United States with less than $2 billion of assets at Dec. 31, 2010.
Pandora ranked 186th nationally. First National Bank of Pandora is one of just 17 Ohio banks that made the annual Top 200 list published in the magazine's June 2011 edition.
The Bethel Church of Christ will host a Bluffton Block Party on Saturday, Aug. 13 from 5-8 p.m. at the Riley Creek Mercantile parking lot located at 246 Cherry St.
There will be live music, food and activities for the kids. The community is invited to bring lawn chairs and join us for an evening of family entertainment.
Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., invites the public to its annual community "Concert on the Lawn", Sunday, Aug. 14, from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
"Come and enjoy the Caribbean music of Pantasia steel drum band from Findlay High School. Since its inception in the spring of 1997, Pantasia has garnered an impressive reputation as an educational and entertaining instrumental music ensemble," said Julie Stratton of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio.
Kathleen Mikkelsen provided this Stauffer family photo.
Seated are Isaac and Catherine Herr Stauffer. Standing from left are their children, Ruth Stauffer Stuckey, Chester Stauffer, Raymond Stauffer, Mabel Stauffer Minck, Howard Stauffer, Emmet Stauffer and Florence Stauffer Hamilton.
Each of the children graduated from Bluffton High School. The family lived on South Lawn Avenue in the home where Basil and Rosemary Meyer live today (152 S. Lawn Ave.)
