Citizens National Bank will host a free seminar for businesses, titled "Health Care Reform: The Impact on Small Business", on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Courtyard by Marriott, 936 Greely Chapel Rd, Lima.
Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. followed by the one-hour program at 8 a.m. The seminar is presented by Group Benefits Agency, Inc., a preferred partner of the Community Bankers Association of Ohio.
Bluffton University arts and events: November 2010Events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
Nov. 1 Visiting Writer's Reading: Crystal Wilkinson, author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street, 4 p.m., Musselman Library
Nov. 2 Forum: "From Nowhere to Naturalist: An Interpretive History of Mr. Todd Crail," by Todd Crail, Bluffton graduate and Ph.D. student at the University of Toledo, 11 a.m., Yoder Recital Hall
Trick-or-treating in the village of Bluffton is from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 28. Halloweeners wanting their photos on The Blufton Icon may stop at 226 Grove St., between 6 and 7 p.m.
Looking for a place to hang out and have fun with your friends or family? Read, learn and play during "National Gaming Day @ Your Library."
On Saturday, Nov. 13, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Bluffton Public Library will host special gaming programs for all ages to celebrate the popularity and educational value of video and board games.
Face "The Ugly Truth" at Bluffton Public Library! On Tuesday, Nov.9 at 3:30 p.m., the Bluffton Public Library will host a "Wimpy Kid Release Party" to celebrate the arrival of The Ugly Truth, book number five in the popular series for kids.
Children ages 7-15 are invited to attend the party dressed in purple to match the latest book cover. Prizes will be awarded to winners of WIMPY Bingo and a copy of the new book will be given away as a door prize. No registration is required.
Bluffton Icon viewers get their chance to vote on the name of the Bluffton Sportmen's Club number number 1 tagged trout for 2011. Tom Augsburger and Ryan Matter of the club, invited The Icon to create a poll for viewers to pick the trout's name.
The trout derby is the first Sunday of May. Next year's derby will celebrate Bluffton's 150th anniversary.
Three possible names were selected by club members as the number 1 trout.
For any musician, making a New York debut is a big deal. To be a college student and make a New York debut, that is huge.
Four Bluffton University students made their New York debut Oct. 21 with a piano recital in historic Steinway Hall. Pianists Brandon Fullenkamp, a senior from Wapakoneta, Stephanie Patterson, a junior from Findlay, and Tim Yoder, a junior from Dalton, performed alongside Dr. Lucia Unrau, professor and chair of music. Fullenkamp debuted a piece composed by fellow student James Brake, a junior from Ohio City.
Floyd C. Dickman, a children's literature specialist, will present "Outstanding Picture Books of 2010" on Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Kreider Room of Bluffton University's Marbeck Center.
Free and open to the public, identical hour-long sessions will begin at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sessions for Bluffton third-grade and home-schooled students will be held in the same room at 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Bluffton residents should expect high winds up to 50 to 60 miles per hours and heavy thundershowers between noon and 3 p.m., according to AEP.
Wide-spread high winds and severe thunderstorms will hit the AEP East Utilities today. A major storm over Minnesota rapidly intensified during the overnight hours. The strong cold front associated with the storm has already produced wind gusts of 45-55 mph with isolated gusts to 75 mph in severe thunderstorms across Missouri and Illinois.
Geraldine Mae Grismore Bucher, 93, died Oct. 22, 2010, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. She was born Aug. 8, 1917, in Bluffton to Allen and Cora Burkholder Grismore. Geraldine married S. Vinton Bucher on May 4, 1941, and he preceded her in death on Good Friday, 2009.
Mrs. Bucher graduated from Bluffton High School and attended Bluffton College. Geraldine and Vinton lived and worked on a farm next to her parent's farm. She worked as a telephone operator in Pandora and then at Triplett Corp. for more than 20 years.
