Linda Jo Tabler, 72, died at 12:35 a.m., Sunday Jan. 18, 2015, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay, Ohio. She was born on Dec. 17, 1942, in Lima, Ohio, to Robert L. "Buck" and Lillian M. (Rasor) Lamb. They both preceded her in death.
On Nov. 9, 1963, she married Jerry E. Tabler and he survives in Bluffton, Ohio.
Diem Lafortune, a Toronto musician, will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 19, at First Mennonite Church, in a Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.
LaFortune is a 2013 Canadian Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year nominee by the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
According to Chappell-Dick, “Her album Beauty and Hard Times is a varied collection including Acadian fiddle tunes, Celtic, prairie Cree drums, and the accordion and strings-fuelled tunes of the Jews and Romany in Eastern Europe.”
Julie Stratton (left) holds the basket while Aphaphanh Nussbaum picks three winners in the final 3/50 Project this year. The winners and stores where they entered the contest are Jackie Fry (The Food Store, Greg's Pharmacy, Luke's); Cindy Tenwalde (Shirley's, Et Cetera, Ten Thousand Villages) and Jeanne Wehri (Spectrum Salon, Town and Country Flowers and Communty Market). CLICK HERE FOR 3/50 DETAILS. The program will return next fall.
Discussion of the abandoned gas station and restaurant on State Route 103 were among discussion points at the Jan. 15 Bluffton Airport Advisory Committee meeting.
Solo and Ensemble Adjudicated Event was held on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Lima Senior High School. Congratulations to the following Bluffton students:
Class "A"
Mark Bixel - Violin Solo - Superior
Mark Bixel - Piano Solo - Superior
Class "B"
Isaac Andreas - Violin Solo - Superior
Tad Steiner - Viola Solo - Superior
String Quartet - Superior - Mark Bixel, Sarah Siders, Emma Woodruff, Jack Neff
