DTR Industries, celebrating a quarter century in Bluffton in 2013, the , is the focus of the Friday morning, May 10, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
The breakfast program will be presented by DTR and it will focus on several of its accomplishments over the past 25 years. Jason Brandt and Emily Peck, DTR associates, will make the presentation.
Celebrates spring with its 42nd annual downtown arts and crafts show on Saturday, May 12. The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce event features over 70 vendors all on Main Street. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no admission charge.
According to Fred Steiner, chamber CEO, this is the largest show in several years. It should attract several hundred persons. “The show is designed as a family event. It’s free and offers activities for all age groups,” he said.
A Mt. Cory family of six is receiving shelter and aid from the American Red Cross of Hancock, Seneca and Wyandot counties.
The family’s home, on North Main Street in Mt. Cory, suffered major damage in a fire on the moring of Monday, May 6.
Red Cross volunteer disaster responders Holly Blaine and Ron Pahl answered the call for help and provided the family of three adults and three children with assistance for shelter and food and also gave the family members comfort kits of personal hygiene items.
By Greg Denecker, Bluffton school superintendent
On May 7, The Bluffton Exempted Village School District will ask for your continued support of the renewal ½ % income tax for permanent improvements.
• This is not a new tax; it is a renewal of an existing tax for three years.
• The tax generates around $600,000 per year.
• This tax will be on the ballot on May 7, to be renewed at the same amount: 1/2% income tax for three years.
• First collection of the renewal would begin in calendar year 2014.
The first Sunday in May – for the past six decades in Bluffton that means the Bluffton Community Sportsmen’s Club trout derby at the Buckeye quarry.
This year’s derby following a time-honored tradition of naming tagged trout number one after a Bluffton icon – and this year’s fish “Big Glove” honors the Bluffton Peerless Ohio Glove Factory. If caught during derby hours, it’s worth – well, the pot keeps growing – lots.
In addition to tag number one there are 250 tagged trout with prizes. Those trout were tagged and released in the Buckeye on Tuesday.
