If you could flavor your own pasta, what might you choose?
How about sun-dried tomato, fresh herb, mushroom, roasted garlic or spinach?
One of the Bluffton Farmers’ Market vendors, Alee Gratz-Collier, will have several of those options for sale most Saturdays.
Alee and her boyfriend, Mike Anderson, recently formed River Valley Pasta and each week create a fresh batch of their secret recipe for sale at the market.
“We started making it commercially four months ago,” said Alee. “Before that we experimented on different flavors, sharing with our friends.”
Bluffton had royalty at this year's Allen County junior fair. Sydney Hoff, daughter of Scott and Brigette Hoff, was named junior fair princess. She is a senior at Bluffton High School.
She is a member of Beaverdam Bunch 4-H Club and Future Shepherds 4-H Club.
She received the follow awards at this year's county and state fair:
• Mastering Photography – A, First Place, County Plaque Winner, Ohio State Fair Participant
Jon E. Sprague, R.Ph., Ph.D., director and BCI Eminent Scholar at the Ohio Attorney General’s Center for the Future of Forensic Science at Bowling Green State University, and a leading authority on Ecstasy research, will be speaking at the University of Findlay from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30 in the Davis Street Building, Room 2225.
