A Bluffton Main Street business is one month old on Aug. 1. Fortman Insurance Services, Inc., of Ottawa, opened a branch office at 115 N. Main St., Bluffton, in the former Book Reviews store front on July 1.
Catherine Fortman of the company told The Icon that due to the expanding number of clients outside Putnam County, the need to expand to a second location made sense. Instead of expanding in Ottawa, the company chose to open a branch in downtown Bluffton.
Four members of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association will receive a life membership in August. Each of the four will turn 90 this month. Those members are James Oberly, Evelyn Lugibihl, Gretchen Lehman and Dorothy Hoffman.
Bluffton Senior Citizens Center's August dinner meeting is at 6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 8. The meal is $6.50 and tickets must be reserved by Wednesday, Aug. 3. Schnipke's Inn, Ottawa, will cater the dinner.
The featured entertainment is Jill Bland, singer. Clarence Kooker is the MC and Marilyn Wymer and friends are hostesses.
The Icon is inviting Bluffton HS sports fans to consider writing sports stories this fall for various Pirate teams. The Icon is unable to pay for the stories, but we can get you into the games free.
Writers can be students, parents or fans. If interested contact: [email protected]
The landscape of Bluffton University is changing as you read this article. With the groundbreaking earlier this month of a new health and fitness center, work is now underway.
The former Bluffton University softball field below Marbeck Center is now a dirt track for heavy vehicles. Dirt is being brought to the site to lift it above the Riley Creek flood plain.
St. John Mennonite Church annexation project into the Village of Pandora will cost the village (including engineering fees) is estimated to be $145,648.50. That estimate was announced at the recent Pandora council meeting on July 12.
Other action at the meeting follow, through the report of the council minutes:
The Pandora Village Council met in Regular Session on Tuesday,
July 12, 2011, at 7:00 PM at the Municipal Building with Mayor, John Schlumbohm, presiding.
Emily S. Burris, a 2001 Bluffton High School graduate, has been accepted to The California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University in San Diego, Calif., where she will pursue a doctorate in Clinical Psychology specializing in Forensic Psychology.
In May she graduated with distinction from Tiffin University with a Master's of Science in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in forensic psychology. She is a 2005 graduate of the University of Findlay where she received Bachelor of Arts in Law, Liberal Arts and Criminal Justice
Administration.
Pandora's Riley Creek Festival is Friday and Saturday, Aug. 12-13. Events on Friday include a car show, outdoor movie, food and carnival games.
Saturday's events include a parade, breakfast and lunch, chicken barbecue, health fair, performers, punt, pass and kick contest for youth, an auction an activities for children.
For a complete schedule open the attachment at the bottom of this story.
Two community meals are planned in August by the Bluffton Inner Church Board. The free meals are at 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4, and 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 18, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St.
The Aug. 4 dinner is sponsored by Bluffton Trinity United Methodist Church. The Aug. 18 dinner is sponsored by the SHANNON Service Club.
Monetary donations support the work of the Bluffton Community Assistance food pantry.
Keith Edwin Moyer, 56, of Rawson, died at 2:27 a.m., July 28, 2011 at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay.
He was born Dec. 6, 1954, in Lima, to Edwin and Dorothea (Tissot) Moyer. Mr. Moyer worked as a police officer for Deshler, North Baltimore and McComb and also worked at McBrown Industries, Rawson. He was a lifetime member of North American Hunting Club and National Rife Association. He graduated from Lima Senior.
Camp Friedenswald, Cassopolis, Mich., has motivated to teach and uphold the Mennonite and Anabaptist faith for over 60 years. Throughout those years, a variety of people have helped cultivate what is now a thriving and efficient camp.
Although staff members and volunteers of Camp Friedenswald come from all over the world, there is a large group of people from the Bluffton and Pandora area who have felt it their calling to serve at Friedenswald.
