A: On his bike somewhere between Toledo and Chicago.
Actually, the answer is more involved in that:
Bluffton cyclist Everett Collier takes lots of bike rides around the block, and this summer that block extends for 3,600 miles.
Collier is participaing in the 7th annual Fuller Center Bike Adventure. It’s a bike ride from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Astoria, Oregon. The ride started June 5 and finishes on Aug. 10 – with several stops along the way where bikers will assist in building projects with Fuller Center covenant partners.
The Bluffton Lions club held its June 3 meeting volunteering at the VOSH-OHIO (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity) Pandora, eye glasses recycling center in the United Methodist Church.
The evening included cleaning, sorting, evaluating and reading recycled eye glasses for preparation to distribute to underserved people throughout third-world countries.
Photo shows Lions Ed Yeager, Don Hostetler and Alan Yoder checking glasses on the lensometers. Members of the church provided the meal.
A Bluffton University graduate and his family are featured in the brochure from Blanchard Valley Health System that promotes its new regional cancer care center.
Ada resident, David Dellifield, and his wife, Jami, and their two children Nora and Ian, are featured. Peter Suter of Bluffton is a member of the campaign cabinent for the project.
A copy of the brochure is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Last week, Colleen Lazar of BVHS updated Bluffton chamber members on the project during the June 13 chamber breakfast.
The next Sunday buffet at Maple Crest Senior Living of Bluffton is June 22, according to Daren Lee, director of Maple Crest. The buffet menu includes Monterey chicken with salsa, baked herbed salmon, wild rice, a vegetable medley, dinner rolls, strawberry pie and coffee and iced tea.
The buffet is in the Patio Room at Maple Crest from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. It is open to all adults 55 and older at a cost of $7.50 per person.
The Alzheimer’s Support Group of Bluffton meets the third Monday of every month at 3:30 p.m. in the library of Mennonite Memorial Home. Facilitators include E. Koogler, LSW, and T. Herrmann, RN.
An Alzheimer’s diagnosis is not required. Support is offered to caregivers as well as to those affected by dementia or cognitive changes.
