A $2,000 matching gift from an anonymous donor means donations accepted through Feb. 19 continue to make a major impact in the Maple Crest Memory Garden and Pier Project, according to Daren Lee, director of marketing of Maple Crest Senior Living Villages, Bluffton.
On Feb. 11 Maple Crest held a pancake breakfast fundraiser to launch its Memory Garden project. From that event over $1,300 was raised by the more than 200 persons in attendance who enjoyed nearly 900 pancakes.
Bluffton residents Amy Roby, representing Tastefully Simple, and Brandy Cox, representing Mary Kay Cosmetics, join Heather Blankenship of Findlay, representing Premier Designs, in an open house later this month in Findlay.
The open house is from 12:30 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25, at Blanchard Valley School, 1700 E. Sandusky St., Findlay. The event includes an afternoon of fun and food and a display of the products these women represent.
Wait until next year. That's where all the basketball games will tip off. The Bluffton University health and fitness center work continues to proceed this winter.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce is in the midst of its 2012 new membership drive and the benefits of a chamber membership have never been better.
With its 151 members, the chamber invites businesses, industries, organizations and individuals to consider a membership this month.
Several benefits come with a Bluffton chamber membership. New members who join in February receive a 10 percent discount in their 12-month membership.
Here's a classic Bluffton swimming pool photo. Originally a 2 1/2 by 4 inch snapshot, we've enlarged and enhanced for Icon viewers to study closer. The period is the early 1920s.
This is north side of the Buckeye, just to the west of today's shelter house. The man on the pier is probably Steiner Geiger, who was the life guard and swimming teacher. The bath house is behind him. Notice the diving boarrds and the rope that crosses the quarry. The rope divided the "shallow" end from the "deep" end.
