Jackie Short of Findlay is the new executive director of Richland Manor, 7400 Swaney Road, Bluffton.
Short assumed the position on Jan. 28. She comes to Richland Manor after serving as director of Briar Hill Health Campus, North Baltimore. Both are part of the Trilogy Health Services.
Prior to joining Trilogy, she served as assistant administrator of Shawnee Manor.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Airman 1st Class Tabetha Clark, a .50-caliber machine gun gunner and driver with the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, recently deployed from the 4th SFS, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.
Clark, a 2007 Bluffton High School graduate, deployed to work with an elite group of security forces airmen with the 455th ESFS, a quick reaction team known as the "Reapers."
Working with her hands seems to be second nature to Bluffton resident and wood worker Jackie Frey.
Maybe it's in her family genes. She owns a wooden ball massager that her great-grandfather carved. Also in her collection are several items created from metal that her maternal grandfather created to prove that he could do the job of a machinist.
Frey, a former staff member at Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton, shared many of her own pieces and talked about her hobby during a Feb. 10 program attended by nearly two dozen persons, mostly residents, at Maple Crest.
Things are moving quickly on the Mennonite Home Communites of Ohio's Green House project on Augsburger Road. Trusses are in place and roof work is underway.
Officials are now projecting a completion of construction in early July with a move-in slated for early November. Persons may also follow construction progress at mmhliving.org/news or go to the MHCO facebook page.
Randy Keeler, Bluffton University faculty member, bikes for a good cause. The stationary bike in the Marbeck Center kiva is part of a fund-raising project for Bluffton University students headed to Chicago for some voluntary service projects during spring break.
Campus students, faculty and staff sign up to ride the bike to urge others to donate to the cause.
A $2,000 matching gift from an anonymous donor means donations accepted through Feb. 19 continue to make a major impact in the Maple Crest Memory Garden and Pier Project, according to Daren Lee, director of marketing of Maple Crest Senior Living Villages, Bluffton.
On Feb. 11 Maple Crest held a pancake breakfast fundraiser to launch its Memory Garden project. From that event over $1,300 was raised by the more than 200 persons in attendance who enjoyed nearly 900 pancakes.
