One of the longest relationships in the Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) network is with Drive Time Driving Instruction, LLC, owned by Doug and Sara Kisseberth of Jenera. We recently asked Doug and Sara to reflect on the growth of their business and what they’ve learned during their entrepreneurial career. Watch the video interview attached.
Q. Drive Time Driving Instruction celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020. When did you first think about creating this business?
Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp today appointed Robert E. Sielschott of Lima to the state’s Small Business Advisory Council.
Sielschott is a partner is Sielschott, Walsh, Keifer and Regula and Sherer, CPA, with an office on Bluffton's Main Street.
The council is a nine-member panel that advises on government rules and regulations and helps identify those that place unnecessary burdens on Ohio’s job creators.
Allison Burghaze is the April Bluffton High School student of the month.
She is active in several organizations at Bluffton HS including SADD Club, Drama Club, Spanish Club, Art Club, FCCLA and orchestra.
She was a member of the golf team as a sophomore, junior and senior. She received the textile and design award and has also received academic, choir and orchestra letters.
FROM ADA ICON - Ada Board of Education hired Vince Halliday as its new head boys' basketball coach in a special meeting last night.
He replaces Jon Cook who was hired in October, 2020, as varsity boys' coach following the resignation of Drew White earlier in October. White coached at Ada for three seasons.
Halliday brings with him many years of basketball coaching experience. He has spent the past 14 seasons as the head coach of the girls' basketball program at Lima Senior, where he is a teacher. He leaves the Lady Spartans as the career leader in coaching wins.
Ada Icon spring intern,
Mana Hashimoto's
ONU capstone project
FROM ADA ICON - Mana Hashimoto, a spring 2021 Ohio Northern University intern for the Ada Icon, created this video.
Her video is a senior capstone project. Its focus is on clothing Mana wears in the U.S. versus what she wears in Japan. She's taken a humorous approached – we think – by not showing her face.
Mana is a senior writing and multimedia studies major, from Mie, Japan. Following graduatation she hopes to return to Japan where she will look for full-time employment in her profession.
Bluffton Senior Center is opening slowly as covid-19 rules change almost daily. Here’s events planned in May at the Center, according to Tonya Meyer.
Fred Steiner provides two presentations on his recent book “Bluffton Anthology: A Creek Runs Through It.”
The first is at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 5, and the second on Thursday, May 13. Covid restrictions limit the audience to 10 persons at each presentation. Reservations are required by calling 419-358-8971.
By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Host Bluffton defeated Leipsic 5-1 in a non-league softball contest Friday evening.
The Lady Pirates improved to 4-10 with the win against their future NWC opponent. Leipsic fell to 7-7 with the defeat.
The Viking girls scored in the first inning on a solo home run by losing pitcher Jocelyn Hermiller. But Bluffton tied it with a score in the bottom of the third frame.
By Cort Reynolds
COLUMBUS GROVE - Visiting Bluffton lost to Columbus Grove 9-6 in a Northwest Conference softball makeup contest Saturday afternoon.
The Lady Pirates fell to 4-11 and 2-5 in the NWC with the defeat that snapped a modest two-game win streak. Grove improved to 9-7 and 2-3 in the NWC with the win.
Bluffton plated three runs in the top of the first frame, but CG matched it in the home half of the first.
Grove edged ahead 6-3 with single runs in each of the second, third and fourth innings.
Joyce Anne Conrad, 72 of Columbus Grove, died April 30, 2021, at Mercy Health - St. Rita's Medical Center, surrounded by her family. Joyce was born Sept. 21, 1948, in Bluffton to the late Francis and Dorothy (Augsburger) Williams. On Aug. 25, 1972, she married Ronald Conrad who preceded her in death in 2011.
Joyce graduated from Bluffton High School in 1966 and was a homemaker. She was a member of Ebenezer Mennonite Church and she enjoyed gardening, flowers and feeding the birds. Joyce was very involved with the Tuesday Lunch Bunch from church.
