He’s the result of mixing coffee with an arts and crafts show, town fireworks, a Thanksgiving celebration, several downtown promotions and all of the activities of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Phil, owner of Common Grounds coffee shop, is the new part-time director of the Bluffton chamber. With the job comes the best office view in the village – the very front room in the second floor of the town hall.
Of course, lots of other things come with the job for Zimmerly, who became chamber director earlier this month.
This is the second part of a two-part series on the reopening of Gallery 323. Selected photos of current art for sale are at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton’s newest downtown retail store offers items shoppers will discover only in Bluffton – art by local artists.
The store, Gallery 323, originally opened ahead of the Christmas season in 2014. The idea for the business was to highlight area artists by providing them with a location to sell their work.
Did you know there's a bell in the clocktower of the Bluffton town hall. There is, and now you can hear it. Phil Zimmerly, new director of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, says that Bluffton residents will start hearing the bell ring frequently. A story on Zimmerly is below. If you want to hear the bell ring, click here for a video you won't forget.
One of Bluffton's great blue herons enjoys watching Riley Creek from a tree branch. This one, photographed with a cell phone camera spends mornings in the creek, or above it, near Campus Drive.
Bluffton High School girl’s softball team continues its winning ways, defeating Spencerville 5-3 in recent action.
The win moves BHS to 5-1 overall and 1-0 in the Northwest Conference. Spencerville drops to 2-4.
Averey Rumer had a double and 2 RBIs. Grace Nickels also had a double with 1 RBI. Jazmynn Wilson had a triple. Libby Schaadt (5-1) was Bluffton’s winning pitcher.
Pleasant View United Methodist Church, between Pandora and Bluffton, will host a soup benefit on Sunday, April 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The benefit will include numerous soups, breads and desserts. Individual servings of soup will be available for carry-out.
The benefit is for medical expenses for a student in Cory-Rawson elementary school who has Langerhans Cell Histiocytic (LCH), a disorder that causes the body too accumulate too many immature Langerhans cells that build up in certain parts of the body where they can form tumors or damage organs.
