Richland Manor Health Campus, 7400 Swaney Road, Bluffton, is hosting a community tractor show on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 from 10 a.m.to 1 p.m. The free event will include a showing of a variety of tractors and family fun for all ages.
Complimentary food and beverages will be provided. Residents’ families and members of the community are invited to attend. If you are a tractor owner and would like to display your tractor at the show, contact Richland Manor at 419-643-3161.
The folk-pop duo Coed Pageant will perfom at the Bluffton town hall on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. along with Trevor Bechtel and Chris Jennings. Prior to the music will be a Fall Equinox Dinner celebrating delicious local food, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick of the Bluffton village cultural affairs committee.
The Blanchard Valley Hospital Environmental Services department, Findlay, also known as housekeeping, has received the 2012 Environmental Services Department of the Year Runner Up award from Health Forum’s Health Facilities Management magazine and the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE).
The Bluffton Schools will hold a district-wide open house on Monday, Sept. 24. The elementary school will be open from 6 – 7 p.m., the middle school from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., and the high school from 7 – 8 p.m.
Several community organizations will have booths set-up in the elementary gymnasium and information will be available on ways to provide support to the school and community.
Today, McDonald’s announced that the company will list calorie information on restaurant and drive-thru menus nationwide, including Ohio, to further inform and help customers and employees make nutrition-minded choices.
The Bluffton Lions Foundation is moving the drawing for its Charity Corvette raffle car, at noon, Saturday, Sept. 29, from the Bluffton Family Recreation Center to the Bluffton Farmers' Market Main Street location.
The Farmers market is located in the Citizens National Bank parking lot between the Post Office and Citizens National Bank.
It will soon be easier to pay Bluffton village utility bills.
The Village of Bluffton will soon offer electronic fund tranfer as a method for utility customers to pay their monthly bills.
Here's how it works: This is an automated bank debiting service going directly from the customer's checking account. For utility customers to receive this service they need to complete an application form (which is available as printer-friendly attachment at the bottom of this story), and attach a "voided" check or deposit slip for the village's records.
15 minutes with Preston Huddleston, Bluffton University student
Interview by Derek Woods, Bluffton University student and Icon intern. Derek is a Broadcasting and Journalism Major from Springfield, Ohio, and is starting safety for the Bluffton University football team.
Preston, where are you from, where did you go to high scool and what position do you play for the Beavers?
I'm a senior, defensive end, from Benton Harbor, Michigan – Eau Claire High School.
