This Covid-19 question video series is in cooperation with Ada SAFE 2020. The series is the collective work of experts, community leaders, organizers, parents, and members of the community.
The question is: "Why do healthy kids need to wear masks?”
In the accompanying video, Dr. Anna Kauffman, MD, a physician in Family Medicine and practices in Bluffton, responds.
She received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine and completed a residency in family medicine at the VCU Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency Program.
Bluffton schools offers lunch to go for pickups on Fridays, as school on that day is remote this fall. Students need to sign up by Thursdays to have a Friday lunch.
Take out lunches are available on Fridays at the middle school front entrance from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Students need to go to the school website and click on district lunches at the top of the page, and then “lunch to go sign-up.”
The opening of U.S. 68 within the village of Arlington occurred quietly Saturday morning, Sept. 5, ending the four-month closure to complete the two remaining phases the roadway reconstruction project.
The project includes curb and gutter, drainage and storm sewer from the south corporation limit to Liberty Street; and from Buck Run to just north of Wardwell Street.
The village and the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) completed phase 1 in 2018 when the roadway between Liberty Street and Buck Run was reconstructed.
It appears that the Bluffton and Richland Township residents stepped up to their civic duty and have responded to calls to participate in the 2020 U.S. Census.
The accompanying map shows that between 86 and 95 percent of much of the county including local residents have responded.
In fact, Allen County’s response rate is now at 83 percent. Ohio’s overall rate is 72 percent and the national participation rate is only 67 percent.
