If you missed the ringing of your doorbell on Tuesday night from a United Way volunteer, you can still contribute to this year's drive.
THE PLEDGE FORM IS IN A PRINTER-FRIENDLY ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.
The 2013-14 United Way of Bluffton, Beaverdam and Richland Township has a goal of $24,500, which supports 10 community organizations. A printer-friendly copy of the donation form is found in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Or, you may make a contribution by visiting Citizens National Bank.
The Bluffton Fall Festival is Saturday, Sept. 28. Events take place in several locations around Bluffton. This is part of a series detailing events at specific locations. This story tells about events at the Swiss Community Historical Society homestead.
The annual Fall Festival at the Homestead will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. by the Swiss Community Historical Society of Bluffton and Pandora. The Schumacher Homestead is located at 8350 Bixel Road between Bluffton and Pandora, and the event is free and open to the public.
A new bowling season recently started at Southgate Lanes, Bluffton, and there's two very familiar bowlers among the many men and women who study the pins each week.
Jim Baumgartner, 83, starting bowling at Southgate Lanes, Bluffton, in 1960. The year it opened. He's still bowling there.
Bob Badertscher, who says he's a couple months younger than Jim, started bowling at Southgate Lanes the next season, in 1961. And he's still bowling there.
What started as a family adventure in 1998 turned into 15 years of an established business in downtown Bluffton. That family adventure is The Black Lab Trading Co.
Ben Sprunger bought the historic building located 121 N. Main St., that has housed many businesses over the 100-plus years. Some of these businesses include an opera house, general mercantile store, Basinger's Furniture, Jan’s and others.
The 2013-14 United Way of Bluffton, Beaverdam, and Richland Township goes door-to-door Tuesday evening, Sept. 17, according to Duane Bollenbacher.
"When the campaign worker comes calling at your door, please greet the volunteer and thank the persons for volunteering to help," he said. "Please consider that every donation that you can make, big or small will be used locally to help you, your family, your neighbor, and the entire community."
If you are not home, or cannot help at that time, you may take or mail your contributions to Citizens National Bank.
Bluffton University will honor an activist, an artist, a diplomat and a retired economics professor at its annual alumni awards banquet on Homecoming weekend. The Commons, in Marbeck Center, will be the site at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11.
Lenna Mae Gara, who attended Bluffton in 1948-49, is this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Service Award, presented to alumni who have dedicated their lives to heartfelt service to people, community or church.
Activities are planned in many locations in the 10th annual Bluffton Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28.
The community-wide festival offers lots of family-oriented events, free and open to the public, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.
Dr. Alex Sider, an associate professor of religion at Bluffton University, will address “The Ethics of Doing History for Theology” in a campus colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Sider is Bluffton’s Harry and Jean Yoder Scholar in Bible and Religion. That five-year appointment—made last fall—provides him with annual funds to support scholarly research and writing in areas related to Anabaptist-Mennonite life and thought.
