The Social Work Club at Bluffton University is collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the West Ohio Food Bank.
The club hopes to collect 500 items in its "Trick-or-Canning" drive. Donations may be left in boxes placed at Marbeck Center on campus and at Community Market and Common Grounds in Bluffton. The drive continues through next Monday, October 31, Trick-or-Treat night in Bluffton, when club members will also visit homes in the community to collect items.
The Bluffton Icon welcomes S&K Mower, 9280 N. Dixie Highway, Bluffton, as its newest advertiser.
Steve Swank, owner, invites Icon viewers to visit the shop for a snowblower pre-season sale and fall clearance on lawn mowers, going on now. S&K's phone number is 419-358-7638.
S & K hours are:
Monday -Friday: 7:30-5:30
Closed on Saturday:
June-March
The Bluffton Lions Foundation officials presented a program recognizing Charity Corvette Raffle event volunteers, shared results of the 2011 raffle and planning information about the 2012 event on Oct. 18.
The back drop for the picture is the actual sponsor banner displayed over the top of the Corvette. The sponsors are Tom Ahl Family of Dealerships, Arby's Restaurants, Colonial Surface Solutions, Don Snyder Excavating Unlimited, Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bud's Chevrolet-Corvette, Ken Lugibihl Auto & Truck Center and Masterpiece Signs & Graphics.
Thirteen members of the Bluffton Lions Club collected trash along County Road 313 and State Route 235 on Oct. 22.
Andy Armstrong, chair of the environmental services committee said the club does the highway trash collection service project twice year in the fall and spring.
Lions participants are, from left, Dick Ramseyer, Gene Long, Fred Rodabaugh, Tom Edwards, Tim Closson, Willis Sommer, Dale Metzger, Ron Lora, Lowell Hostetler, Morris Groman, Jan Emmert, Stan Clemens and Andy Armstrong.
Mindy Young, daughter of Ron and Vicki Young (Vicki is a DTR associate), covers her face during Sunday's BFR Halloween party. Click for more photos and a video.
James Grandey, head baseball coach at Bluffton University, is among this year's inductees into the Muskingum University Athletic Hall of Fame. He and three others will be inducted on Saturday, Oct. 22.
Grandey played baseball and football at Muskingum, where he graduated in 1999 with the William G. Moore Outstanding Senior Male Athlete Award. He had also been Muskingum's top freshman male athlete and, as a senior, was the university's nominee for the Clyde Lamb Award as outstanding male athlete in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).
