As some of the old timers tell it, Greg Conkling showed up here like a lost kitten sometime around 1986. He hung around until we got used to him and permitted him to stay.
At least, that’s the way I heard it. Maybe you heard differently.
The next meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club will take place Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 12 p.m. at Maple Crest.
This lunchtime meeting will feature Lion Dr. Bob Goulding as the guest speaker. Dr. Goulding, a Toledo optomitrist, long-time Lion involved with Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation, and civil war history buff will speak on “Johnson’s Island civil war prison”.
If members wish to reserve a meal, please go to [email protected] by Wednesday, Jan. 2 to submit a reservation.
New Year serenaders are invited to meet at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31 at Mennonite Memorial Home 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton, according to Dick Jordan. The event is an annual tradition encouraged by the Swiss Community Historical Society.
Warmup for singers at 4:45 p.m. for those desiring it. Following serenading at MMH, singers will go to Maple Crest at 6:30 p.m. where they will sing at Maple Crest's new year's eve party.
Three Bluffton holiday lawn displays were chose winners of the 2012 Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce residential lighting contest.
The winners are:
First place - Derek and Jamie Snyder, 95 Riley Creek Court, winner of $200 in chamber gift certicates. Second place - Jim and Sue Kinn, 105 Riley Street, winner of $100 in chamber gift certificates. Third place - Kevin and Shelby Cluts, 252 S. Lawn Ave., winner of $50 in chamber gift certificates.
These look more like October temperatures than December. Here's the high, the low and precipitation and snow recorded for the past seven days in the Bluffton-Pandora area, provided by Guy Verhoff, weather observer.
Community meals, Bingo, monthly potluck, quilting...exercise class. Those are just part of the January events scheduled at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.
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