The Findlay·Hancock County Chamber Agri-Business Committee has awarded seven $500 scholarships to Hancock County students who are planning to, or already pursuing, a career in an agriculturally related field. The scholarships were funded with money raised from the committee’s annual Farmers’ Share Breakfast at Brugeman Lodge at Riverbend and Fresh Whole Hog Sausage Sale.
Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) has named Barbara Plaugher the BVHS associate of the year and has nominated her for the Albert E. Dyckes Health Care Worker of the Year Award, presented by the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA).
Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora, an affiliate of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio (MHCO), recently completed a project involving the replacement of its walk-in cooler and freezer.
The new $35,000 unit was custom made for Hilty Home by US Cooler, Quincy, Ill. The new unit features a sloped roof versus a flat roof that the prior unit had. This will enable the water to flow off the top as opposed to standing, thus increasing the life of the unit.
Julian Harnish is living in a pretty exciting week.
At this moment he is on his way to China with his family. The Bluffton family will be there until mid-June while Julian’s father, Stephen, is on a Bluffton University sabbatical.
That’s not the only exciting thing that happened to the BHS junior in the past five days. On April 20, he finished in second place in the high school piano division of the 2013 Young Artists’ Competition sponsored by the Friends of the (Lima) Symphony.
Bluffton Brownies Troop 20012 recently had an adventure in downtown Bluffton where they searched for symbols of the community, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, leader.
