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By Paula Pyzik Scott
Bluffton Middle School's Night at the Museum event on Wednesday, May 7 drew a large audience for student poster presentations in the gym and cafetorium. The school was abuzz with family and friends learning about student research that spanned continents and thousands of years of history.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, May 9. The meeting will be held on the third floor of the Town Hall.
The breakfast sponsor is Jacomet's Martial Arts. The Circle U Waffle Co. will be catering the breakfast, which is served beginning at 7:00 a.m.
The 7:30 a.m. program will be Building Your AI Brain by Courtnee R. Morris, technology coordinator for Bluffton Exempted Village Schools:
MAY 1 MEDIA RELEASE__The next program in a series coordinated by the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society, Swiss Family Migration with Fred Steiner, takes place at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, at the Bluffton Public Library.
Steiner’s photo presentation will tell the story of his great-grandparents, Rudolf and Barbara Amstutz Althaus. In 1845, at age 23, Rudolf immigrated to America from Switzerland. After traveling throughout the Midwest, he settled in Bluffton in 1857 and married Barbara Amstutz, who was born in Wayne County, Ohio and was also of Swiss lineage. Rudolf’s brother, Gotthard, also immigrated to the United States. He moved to rural Bluffton and was a farmer.
APRIL 30 MEDIA RELEASE__Over 850 volunteers will be spread out at project sites throughout the county next week during United Way of Hancock County’s Days of Caring event.
The biannual volunteer event matches employees of area corporations and small businesses with nonprofits and other service agencies in need of some extra hands. Spring Days of Caring will run May 5-9, with 861 volunteers working to complete 85 landscaping, building, organizing, painting, planting and construction projects for 32 different organizations.
The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association will hold a Blessing of the Bikes--including motorcycles, trikes, bikes, scooters and more--on Sunday May 4 at 1:00 p.m.
The event will take place at the English Lutheran Church parking lot at 111 Grove St.
