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Bluffton area residents on Colorado rail trip

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Tonya Meyer, director of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, provides us with a minute-by-minute trip to Colorado taken by 40 area residents.

By Tonya Meyer

Bright-eyed and ready for adventure, 40 friends of Bluffton Senior Center boarded a Buckeye Charter bus the morning of July 20 heading for Chicago and parts West.

It was a sizzling hot day as Chicago greeted us with temps topping 100 degrees.

The Bluffton Athletic Boosters have several August events planned prior to the beginning of the 2011-12 school year.

Bluffton junior high and high school youth are invited to an End of Summer Youth Blast Sunday, Aug. 7, at the Presbyterian Church on Main Street.

High school and junior high youth are invited to join in on pizza, games and a movie on the lawn. Cost is $2 per person or $5 for three or more youth from the same family. All high school youth (from youth entering sixth grade on up) are invited to this event, so tell all of your friends

Cement petunia

Sort of like a petunia in the onion patch. This stray is growing between the Vine Street curb and the sidewalk. It apparently grew from seed from last summer's downtown flower pots.

A 29-year-old woman was recently indicted by an Allen County Grand Jury for her role in connection with a serious traffic crash on Dec. 9, 2010, in Bluffton, according to Bluffton police.

Bluffton emergency services responded to an injury traffic crash at 5:49 p.m. on Harmon Road in front of Bluffton Hospital. A vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed struck a tow truck that was parked along Harmon Road, according to the police report.

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