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Santa is coming to Richland Manor.

Santa invites the community to Richland Manor at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21. You may have your photo taken with Santa, there are Christmas treats available and you may drop off a letter to Santa at the event.

Richland Manor is at 7400 Swaney Road, Bluffton.

A line of strong late season thunderstorms with possible tornadoes and winds gusting to 70 miles per hour moved across Ohio late Sunday breaking poles and knocking down power lines in several areas of AEP Ohio’s service territory. The severe weather has effected service for both transmission and distribution customers.

The Mennonite Memorial Home Service Group will hold a Friday, Nov. 22, bake sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at MMH, 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton.

The bake sale will be in the MMH lobby.

 

Construction at the corner of Main and College have the attention of Bluffton residents. Roof work is next for the addition to the Fred and Pat Rodabaugh addition.

Several students teacher assignments will be acted upon at Monday’s November school board meeting, according to Greg Denecker, superintendent.

Those include the following Ohio Northern University students from Jan. 21 through May 2:
• Kayle Gorenfio, with Dave Sycks
• Spencer Genson with Kevin King,
• Blade Tacket with Pamela Riffle
• Tony Rader with Scott Huff
• Hillard Crawford with Jackie Bourassa

Downtown Bluffton is starting to take on that holiday appearance. On Saturday members of the Bluffton fire department hung Christmas garland.

Seven days earlier the Ream holiday folk art display was placed on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn.

The next holiday preparation is downtown Bluffton business windows.

For the third year, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce offers downtown businesses a chance to win a “traveling trophy” for the next 12 months, based upon their holiday retail window display.

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