Lifelong Bluffton resident Vera Burkholder is the June resident of the month at Richland Manor.
She graduated from Bluffton High School and studied to be a teacher at Bluffton College. After graduating she taught 19 years as a first grade teacher at Allen East. She is a lifelong member of the Bluffton Missionary Church.
June worship service leaders at Mennonite Memorial Home were recently announced. Here's the schedule of services:
Sunday, June 3 - Chaplain Bill Herr
Sunday, June 10 - Renee Caskie
Sunday, June 17 - Elizabeth McDowell
Sunday, June 24 - Chaplain Bill Herr
Sunday services are at 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday, June 5 - Carol Clements, St. John's UCC
Tuesday, June 12 - Matthew Zuehlke, Bluffton Presbyterian
Tuesday, June 19 - Steve Yoder, First Mennonite
Tuesday, June 26 - Sister Carol Inkrott, St. Mary's Catholic
Bluffton Lions present the 45th Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-In, Friday, June 15.
The event takes place in downtown Bluffton from 2 to 8 p.m. Jeff Houston, 1950s DJ will play music from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The Flag City Cloggers will perform from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the Night Jazz Swing Band will perform on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn from 6 to 8 p.m.
Several Bluffton downtown businesses will hold sidewalk sales all afternoon.
A registration form for car owners is an attachment to this story.
Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio (MHCO) June "Ask the Expert," program is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St., according to Daren Lee of MHCO.
The program provides adults 55 and over in the greater Bluffton area an opportunity to speak directly to an MHCO nurse and social worker present at each session.
Mennonite Memorial Home held its annual Women's Celebration with two programs on May 21 and May 22.
The first featured a catered meal by Special Occasions and a guest speaker, Anne Stratton. Her presentation was "Toys of the Past."
The second program featured Ron Friesen, an MHCO duplex resident, as the guest speaker. Friesen brought some of his vintage toy collection and spoke on various items.
The area Multiple Sclerosis group Friends Helping Friends will meet Wednesday, June 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the third floor conference room at the Bluffton town hall. An elevator is available.
The guest speaker is Ruth Everett, massage therapist, who will show and discuss relaxation techniques.
For those who missed the May meeting, we were shown how to plant both flowers and vegetables in containers that could be at a height for those who cannot plant things in the ground.
For additional information, contact Tracy at 419-358-0155 or Ruth at 419-996-9770.
ArtSpace/Lima will mount the special exhibit, Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers opening on Saturday, June 16, 2012, with a public reception for the artists and their friends from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Ellen Nelson Gallery.
Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers entries were solicited from any Ohio artist working in traditional print-making media. The show, which includes 32 works by 18 printmakers, will feature a wide variety of print media, including intaglio, wood, linoleum, and plastic reliefs, lithographs, silk-screen prints, collographs, and monoprints.
