You bet, and it was quality merchandise. Dick Boehr took this photo of the former Basinger Furniture store in 1969 - 45 years ago.
Today the building is home of The Black Lab Trading Co.
Here's a couple things to check out:
• The beautiful green trash container
• The condition of the sidewalk
• The business on the south side - was a a Western Auto store?
• Is that a '62 Chevy parked "the wrong way?" (Vine wasn't a one-way street in 1969)
First-year Bluffton University students—members of the class of 2019—sign a banner on their first day on campus that symbolizes their commitment to support each other and to learn together.
The banner will be displayed in Bluffton’s Marbeck Center until their graduation day in four years.
The traditional banner signing followed a welcome from university President Dr. James Harder, who discussed his hopes for the incoming class.
Bluffton University student Emily Huxman, from Waterloo, Ontario, has won this year’s binational C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest.
Her first-place effort earned Huxman, now a Bluffton junior, a $300 cash prize and a scholarship of up to $500 to attend a peace-related conference or seminar.
In the event, which is open to students in Mennonite and Brethren in Christ colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, participants present speeches that apply the Christian peace position to contemporary concerns.
A Tristan Smucker hat trick was significant in Bluffton High School boys' soccer win over Ottovile by a 4-0 score on Aug. 29. Bluffton controlled the game from start to finish.
There are openings for Mennonite Memorial Home Mobile Meal Volunteer Drivers. Volunteers deliver just one day a month and openings are on the 2nd Wednesday and the 4th Tuesday of each month. Meals are prepared by The Mennonite Memorial Home and are delivered with-in the Bluffton Village limits. The delivery starts at 11:30 a.m. and takes approximately 30 – 45 minutes. If you would like to be a Mobile Meal Driver and serve the Bluffton community, please call Mary Ann Ring, volunteer coordinator, at 419.358.1015, ext 248.
