The annual Holiday Gift Silent Auction begins at 9:30 a.m. on Wed., Nov. 1 and ends on Nov. 22 at 5 p.m. This is a great place to check some gifts off your holiday gift list and benefit your library (and community) at the same time!
Each package has a “Buy Now” price, as well as a minimum start bid.
Judith Ann Orr, 69, of Beaverdam died Oct. 30, 2017, at 5:59 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System. Judy was born Jan. 23, 1948 in Bluffton to the late Clarence and Norma (Bushong) Burkholder. On March 29, 1968, she married David Orr who preceded her in death on April 27, 2016.
Judy was a homemaker.
Survivors include a special nephew, Bryan (Casey) Burkholder of Columbus Grove and several nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
Judy was preceded in death by a sister, Linda Goecke and a nephew, Jeffrey Burkholder.
Gift certificate drawings, merchandise discounts, free gifts and free copies of a new children’s book take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4, in the annual Downtown Bluffton Christmas Open House.
Ten businesses are part of a mailing shopper – the shopper is attached at the bottom of this story. Each of those businesses has special discounts.
For more details go to: Bluffton Downtown Merchants on Facebook.
“Several years ago, my daughter spent many nights in the Toledo Hospital Pediatric ICU. The Ronald McDonald house was a great place to take a break from being in the hospital with my daughter....I am so grateful to be able to give back to the Ronald McDonald House."
The Dough Hook is teaming up with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Ohio to bring a Thanksgiving-style meal to persons in need this holiday season, according to Marlena Ballinger of the Main Street deli.
A special Bluffton council meeting was called for tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 31) at 8 p.m. in the Bluffton town hall to discuss the police department K-9 program.
The notice of the meeting to the media was made at 4 p.m. on Monday.
Bluffton council passed by emergency legislation authorizing the purchase and training of a police K-9 from funds donated to the K-9 project.
A book release celebration for “Education with the Grain of the Universe: A Peaceable Vision for the Future of Mennonite Schools, Colleges, and Universities” will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Musselman Library Reading Room.
Edited by Dr. J. Denny Weaver, professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton, the book features how 18 contributors shape philosophies of Mennonite higher education as they explore intersections of educational theories and practices with Anabaptism, Mennonite thought and peacemaking.
Blanchard Valley Hospital was recently honored with an “A” grade in the Fall 2017 Hospital Safety Score, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
The Hospital Safety Score uses 30 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. More than 2,600 U.S. hospitals were assigned scores in Fall 2017.
