The Bluffton Lions Club will begin to sell “Shopping Spree” tickets at the Bluffton Community Market and at other locations in Bluffton starting on March 28th.
Drawing for the 90-second spree will be held on April 29th. Proceeds from this project goes to the Bluffton Lions Scholarship Fund.
A pair of Bluffton University softball players were honored for their work on the diamond in Florida over the past week. Juniors Jess Kuzara (Flat Rock, Mich./Huron) and Chloe Shell (Covington) led the Beavers to an 8-2 mark at the Gene Cusic Classic and were named HCAC Hitter of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively.
Robert A. Amstutz, 76, of Beaverdam, died at 4:20 p.m. March 9, 2014. at Bluffton Hospital. He was born Oct. 6, 1937, in Bluffton, to the late Jess and Mary Burkholder Amstutz. On June 30, 1957, he married Peggy A. Lewis and she preceded him in death on July 29, 2013.
Mr. Amstutz retired from Ex-Cell-O/Airfoil-Textron, Bluffton. He was a member of St. John Mennonite Church, Pandora, and a member of the Gideons, where he was active in their jail ministry. He was also active with Transport for Christ. He was a graduate of Beaverdam High School.
Note:This is the first in a series of stories on Bluffton businesses and organizations written by Bluffton University students in an Intro to Journalism class taught by Dan Fultz.
By Jessica Parker
The Bluffton Elementary PTO is an organization dedicated to the betterment of the Bluffton elementary school and the entire school community.
Melissa Knauss, president of the Bluffton PTO, shared about the PTO in an interview earlier this winter.
It's official: Luke's Bar and Grill's white bean and ham soup is the winner.
Two hundred hungry Bluffton soup-eaters attended and 170 voted at Maple Crest's eight soup cookoff on Thursday.
The winner was Luke’s Bar & Grill (Bluffton), with white bean and ham soup.
For the first time ever, there was a tie for second place by Henry’s, of Ottawa, with cream of broccoli and Jeanne’s Kitchen (Bluffton) with butternut squash soup.
Touches from the Heart of Glandorf took third place with white corn chowder.
