Richard and Marylin Basinger will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on July 5, 2014. They were married on July 5, 1964, at the First Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio by the Rev. Jacob T. Friesen.
Parents of the couple are the late Amber and Edna Basinger and the late Donald Dillman. Marylin's mother, Treva Dillman Suter resides in Bluffton at the Mennonite Memorial Home.
Kathy Miles is with her lawn chair, a bag full of items and a Wal-Mart Gift card she won in the Thrivent Financial free drawing held at the Bluffton Area Relay for Life. The items were provided by Thrivent Financial.
On June 23 the Bluffton Shuffleboard Club held their first-ever Battle of the Sexes tournament, according to Ralph Peterson, president of the club.
In a tight match, the men won 21-17. Four rounds were played with the men leading by four points after the first round and then holding on to win by just four points.
One shuffler, Sylvia Smith, won all four of her matches.
BVH Associate Named a Top 40 Under 40 Laboratory Leader Blanchard Valley Hospital laboratory manager Shawn Griggs has been named one of the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s (ASCP) “40 Under 40” for his achievements in the medical laboratory field.
Griggs has been a BVH laboratory associate for the past 15 years. A graduate of Ohio Northern University, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in medical technology and completed a laboratory externship at the Boston V.A. Medical Center School of Medical Technology in Boston, Mass.
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.
