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Don't do this at home

Actually you can't do this at home, unless you have a diving board. Here's some diving antics at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool. For a video click here.

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God smiled on our 2011 Bluffton Sesquicentennial. For nine days we had good weather and four years of work proved to be a very successful event.

Thank you to each and everyone who assisted our Sesquicentennial Committee.

Do you think in 150 years our successors will honor us as we have our ancestors? Hopefully we will prove worthy.

Beverly Amstutz
Director, Sesquicentennial Committee

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Yesterday morning I asked my husband if he thought the dog's bug bites/rash were making him feeling crummy or if it was just the heat. His response?

"Well, it IS the dog days of summer." Groan.

For more columns by MPS click here.

In the mood for a mystery? Then Monday's Bluffton Public Library movie with a novel destination is just for you. Monday's 2 p.m. movie title has not been announced by the library staff. The only thing known is that it's a "Mystery destination." The movie is free and open to the public.

The Bluffton Cattle Club and the Beaverdam Bunch 4-H clubs will hold a chicken barbecue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday at the Bluffton Middle School cafetorium. Both eat-in or carry-out is available. Tickets are $7.50 each. The proceeds will help support the Jr. Fair livestock auction.

John Gilbert

John W. Gilbert, 95 died at 9:03 a.m. July 22, 2011 at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. He was born Sept. 5, 1915 in Orange Township, Hancock County, Ohio to Melvin Leo and Nellie Gail (Beagle) Gilbert. On April 28, 1940 he married Ruth V. Cunningham and she died Feb. 6, 2007.

He was a farmer in Hancock County until 1950. He had worked at Triplett Electrical Instrument Company, Bluffton where he was a plant manager. He also worked for Breece and Yeasel in Jackson Center, Ohio and in 1976 incorporated his own molding business known as Associated Plastics in Pandora.

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