The next Crime Victim Services information session on volunteer guardianship is January 23, according to Elysia Bush of Bluffton, director, Elderly Victim Ministry and CVS Guardian Programs.
The sessions take place in the CVS training room, 220 N. Elizabeth St., Lima from noon-1 p.m. or 6-7:30 p.m. A light meal is served.
Court-sworn guardians of the person are needed to make decisions related to social services, housing and healthcare for individuals unable to make those decisions solely by themselves.
The Board of Trustees of Bluffton Public Library announced its meeting schedule for 2020. Meetings will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the library's Board Room at 145 S. Main St., Bluffton. No meetings will take place in July or December.
Board members are Elizabeth Hostetler, president; Bob Beer, vice president; Carrie Phillips, secretary; Amy Lehman Mikesell, Robert Scott, Emily VonStein and Nancy Yeager.
In 2020, the Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) will be awarding prizes, holding free brown bag discussions, and expanding the ways it serves small businesses in the four counties surrounding the Village of Bluffton.
The Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition, which begins on Wednesday, January 15, will award $7500 in prizes to new businesses and improving 45817 businesses. Spaces are limited and the Emerging Business division has just three seats left.
To register or learn more about the business plan, visit BlufftonEntrepreneurs.com.
County Line Road work continues by the village this month. Waste water drainage pipes are being installed on the west side of the road from East Elm Street to Cherry.
Bluffton police issues a flood watch for the village for the weekend of Jan. 10-12.
Ryan Burkholder, police chief, sent a Nixle alert at 12:37 p.m. on Thursday. It reads: "National Weather Service has issued flood watch for this weekend. Please monitor forecast for potential flooding."
Alert details state that the severity, urgency and certainty are "unknown." The National Weather Service describes the alert as a flash flood watch.
The northwestern Ohio detailed forecast from the NWS follows:
