Business

Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend, according to Jeff Kantner, owner.

The event includes several special sale items including:
• Sign up to win a $300 gift card
• Sign up to win one of five $30 gift cards
• 30 percent off everything in the store under $30
• 10 percent off everything in the store over $30 (not including sale items)

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs today (Oct. 10) announced prize money and seminar dates its 2015 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.

SEVERAL ATTACHMENTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY PROVIDE COMPLETE DETAILS ON ENTERING THE COMPETITION.

• First place prize is $4,000 in business start-up costs.
• Second place is $1,500 in start-up.
• Third place is $500 in start-up costs.

Regina T. Shumaker, 102 Magnolia Lane, Bluffton, has opened a business handling residential snow control and yard maintenance. The business, Fyrwomyn’s Service, LLC, reflects Shumaker’s background as a retired fire fighter and EMT.

“I saw a need for snow control and yard maintenance in Bluffton,” she said, after relocating here in 2012 to take care of her ailing mother.

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will sponsor the Friday, Oct. 10, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast program.

The free chamber breakfast is at 7 a.m. with the chamber meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.

The program serves as the launch of BCE’s fifth annual Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition. It also will provide chamber members with a progress report of BCE activities over the past year.

Smith Realty Professionals, 147 N. Main St., Bluffton, announce a new residential property listing.

The property is at 22616 Township Road 51, Bluffton, and is listed at $349.000. For more details on this listing open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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