Senior Center celebrates 45 years in November
45 years on Main Street.
It’s a busy month in November for the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St.
The Center will celebrate its 45th anniversary with an open house from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5. The celebration includes cake and hors d’oeuvres. Following the open house is one of the twice-monthly community meals, which starts at 6 p.m.
During its Monday, Nov. 9, annual meeting, members who died from Nov. 1, 2014, through Oct. 31, 2015, will be remembered.
The memorial service will recognize:
Ara Ellen Woolley
Dorothy D. Skelly
Marcene Spangler
Windell Zumkelr
Richard Glasser
Ruth Griffith
Olan (Bill) Wilkerson
Donna Lutz
Michael Homsher
Don Dalrymple
Ralph Rammel
Elizabeth McDowell
Forest (Bud) Kantner
Marie Place
Doris Turner
Durand Dudley
Richard “Butch” Gladwell
Betty Steiner
Irene Hamman
Charley Shepler
Ruth Bartels
Pauline Bauman
Faye Eley
Doris Clevenger
Harley Childs
Margaret Houshower
The annual meeting will also include an election of board officers. Members up for election are Mary Amstutz, David Herr, Becky Marshall, Gene Balmer and Russell Koontz.
November also marks the beginning of a new season for peanut brittle. The first session is Monday, Nov. 2, at 8 a.m. Volunteers are needed to make the candy, according to Tonya Meyers, director.
A Christmas garage sale is Friday, Nov. 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Several additional items take place in November. Open the November newsletter at the bottom of this story to read additional information.
Stories Posted This Week
Thursday, October 15, 2026
- DeWine announces $200M Rural Health Transformation program award
- Herb program with Marge Lafollette, Oct. 15
- Prairie seeding activity at Bluffton University, October 24
- Food for thought: Choline for the brain
- Results for 5K on October 2, Bluffton University Homecoming event
- 15 minutes with Sherry Miller, senior center activities coordinator
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 14
- CANCELLED Main St. closure on October 15
- Frederick Clyde Warren founded True-2-Form Plastics
- October 15 Bluffton Schools athletics lineup, streaming
- Pirate boys soccer beats Wapak in regular season finale
- Pirate girls soccer defeats Liberty Center
- Mennonite pastor to explore ‘good news’ in creation
- Bluffton University earns recognition in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Obituary for Deborah "Debbie" Welch, 74
- Spirits and exorcism presentation during University Spiritual Life Week Forum
- Dodging bullets: Bluffton oral history 90+ years after Dillinger robbery
- Nora Matthews named BHS Student of the Month for September 2026
- ICAPP analysis on charter status and local autonomy
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 13
- Bluffton area Women in Business meeting October 15
- Leo club glasses collection
- Night at the (Swiss Historical) Museum, October 24
- Woodcarving ornament workshop at Swiss Heritage Center
- Barefoot nature walks at the Nature Preserve
- Pirate volleyball seeded 4th
- Beavers sports roundup, October 6-11
- Bluffton leaf pickup scheduled for last week of October
- Pirate boys soccer shuts out Bellefontaine
- Watch an after school movie at the Bluffton Public Library
- Dunlap awarded OSBA humanitarian award