JUNE 9 MEDIA RELEASE__The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, June 13. The meeting will be held on the third floor of the Town Hall.
Sponsor: Superior Plus Realtors - Zac Kohli
The Twisted Whisk will be providing the breakfast. Breakfast will be served at 7 a.m.
Program begins at 7:30 a.m. Chief Noah Babcock will be presenting on how the transition from a volunteer EMS department to a full-time EMS department is going, and what we can expect going forward.
The June monthly meeting of the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society will be Wednesday evening, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. at the 1899 Depot, 405 N. Spring Street, in Buckeye Park (a.k.a. Bluffton Sportsmen's Club).
Meeting topics will include a review of the recent Fred Steiner program, Bluffton History Day, committee reports and sharing time for those who bring in items to discuss.
FROM FACEBOOK__The 2nd Annual Dominic Francis Memorial Scholarship Bike & Jeep Run will be held on August 9. This event starts at the Bluffton Fallen Officer Memorial at Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main, at 10:00 a.m. KSU (Kick Stands Up) at noon.
The cost to participate is $25 per bike/Jeep and $5 per rider.
The ride ends at Findlay Moose Lodge #698, where there will be food, 50/50 drawing and raffle items.
MEDIA RELEASE__On Saturday, June 14, the Swiss Community Historical Society will host a blacksmithing demonstration by Keith Sommer, SCHS curator. This is the first of three Second Saturday events to be held at the homestead in 2025.
Blacksmithing was a once-common task at the Schumacher Homestead. Sommer will work with various blacksmith tools for hammering, punching and welding wrought iron and steel, while using a forge fire to heat the metal to “white hot” before shaping into the desired end result.
The Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., has issued its June 2025 newsletter, full of happenings for its members. The 10-page update is now also available by email.
JUNE 2 MEDIA RELEASE__Fred Steiner will present a Swiss family migration program at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, June 5.
The presentation’s focus is on how and why ancestors of area residents immigrated to Bluffton, using the example of Steiner’s maternal great-grandparents, Rudolf and Barbara Amstutz Althaus.
Rudolf Althaus, who immigrated to America from Switzerland in 1845, owned a Bluffton general store and was also a trained landscape artist, painting scenes of Switzerland in oil, selling them to other Swiss immigrants.
