Bluffton University has selected Ben Rath as its head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach, an intercollegiate program to start in the 2021-22 academic year.
Rath graduated from the University of Findlay in December 2018 with a bachelor’s in Sports Business Analysis. He also served as the team captain on Findlay’s men’s swimming and diving team for two years and was named the 2018 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Male Athlete of the Year and the 2018 GMAC/MEC Male Swimmer of the Meet.
Donald Mowery, 92, died March 18, 2021, at Taylor Place in Findlay. Donald was born June 1, 1928, in Allen County, Ohio to the late Jesse and Evadna (Tidd) Mowery. He was married to Hazel Rumsey Mowery and she survives.
Donald was a meter man for American Electric Power.
Survivors include his wife, Hazel Mowery of Findlay; two daughters, Carla (Daryl) Richard of Bluffton, Denise (Tim) Duff of Findlay; a grandson, Jim (Barb) Waldman; five great-grandchildren, Hannah, Jacob, Samuel, John and A.J. Waldman; and a sister, Patricia Moyer of Waynesfield, Ohio.
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The plot is a mystery.
The curtain opened in the first of many off-Broadway spring dramas involving actors of Little Riley Creek last week. We anticipated theatre, but never knew what type or when.
It started when a female hooded merganser showed up a week ago.
After watching this bird, common in the Midwest, but no-so-common on Riley Creek, others joined the cast.
Corrinne Boehr celebrates her 90th birthday on Tuesday, March 23. Friends are invited to mail her a birthday card to:
Corrinne Boehr
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Paul Diller snapped this photo and then very quickly stepped aside as this giant Lima-built Berkshire steam locomotive barrelled toward him at about 65 miles per hour.
We can only guess what the engineer and fireman thought as they approached a photographer, standing in the middle of the rails.
Coming from Bellevue, it was westbound to Lima, and onto Muncie, Indiana, and headed perhaps as far west at St. Louis.
Registration forms for Bluffton Farmers Market vendors are now available at explorebluffton.com/farmers-market. The deadline for discounted full-year reservations is April 16.
New and returning vendors are invited to an online pre-season meeting with Bluffton Farmers Market manager Greg Probst at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23.
Vendor fees for 2021 are $12.00 per week. The full-season discounted fee is $220.00 and reserves a designated spot for the entire season, May-October.
An email from Jan Emmert prompted this column on Bluffton mayors.
Prior to the town hall’s renovation in 2008, there existed a huge framed collection of Bluffton mayor photos. It covered an entire wall.
Every Bluffton mayor’s photograph from its founding in 1861 made up this unusual collection. Today the photos are in two frames on the second floor lobby outside the police department.
Donald Mowery, 92, of Findlay died on March 18, 2021, at Taylor Place in Findlay. Arrangements are pending at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services – Bluffton.
Senior artists and graphic designers from Bluffton University will showcase their most prominent work in a combined exhibit called “Uncovered Perspectives.”
Berlin Fuqua, Ada, Ohio; Autumn Graves, Mount Blanchard, Ohio; and Sarah Heydinger, Tiro, Ohio; will have work on display. The exhibit opens March 15 and runs through April 10 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University’s Sauder Visual Arts Center for faculty, staff and students to view.
