Bluffton University will honor three alumni and a former faculty and staff member at its annual alumni awards banquet on Homecoming weekend. The Commons, in Marbeck Center, will be the site at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12.
The late Jean (Hoover ’47) Triplett is this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Service Award, presented to alumni who have dedicated their lives to heartfelt service to people, community or church.
St. John’s United Church of Christ's beef and noodle dinner, a Bluffton tradition, is back and slated for Friday, Oct. 19. Come and get a good home-cooked meal before the Bluffton High School homecoming football game.
The dinner will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 pm in St. John’s Oppermann Hall, which can be accessed from College Avenue. (223 West College Ave.)
The dinner includes homegrown beef, homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, cole slaw, roll, homemade pie and beverages.
Lots of events are planned in October at Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton.
Among those events from 2 to 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, is a "meet the author" program in the family room.
The newest book publications out by Maple Crest residents are “An Alzheimer’s Primer,” by Joanne Niswander, based upon personal family experience, and “Where Flows the River
Twee,” by Claralice Wolf, inspired by her life in Thailand.
Other October events are listed on the October calendar in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
The Swiss Community Historical Society will host a fund-raiser hog roast after the Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Schumacher Homestead, 8350 Bixel Road.
Tickets may be purchased at the Homestead during the Festival, or in advance at The Black Lab on Main Street in Bluffton.
Bluffton celebrates the arrival of fall at its ninth annual Fall Festival, Saturday, Sept. 29, at five locations in the community.
Most events are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Mennonite Memorial Home
Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 W. Elm St., is the hub for all free transportation. Visitors may park at one of the venues and enjoy free horse and wagon rides, or vans that goes to other locations. The vans arrive and depart every 15 minutes from Maple Crest, Swiss Homestead, Bluffton Middle School, downtown and the Mennonite Home.
