Temperatures on Saturday, Jan. 8, froze large sections of the Little Riley Creek. And, it appears that the waste water drain at the Grove Road bridge became a shelter from the storm for at least one outdoor animal, perhaps a cat.
The inset photo on the right shows the same pipe 24 hours later, as temperatures rose, ice melted and we assume the animal high tailed it or dry ground. Meanwhile, on other sections of the stream, other wildlife made their own impressions on the snow.
Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio (MHCO) has announced the following volunteer opportunities, effective January 2022. MHCO requests that all new volunteers serving at MHCO to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Persons interested may contact Chris Moser, [email protected], 419-358-1015 extension 263.
Mennonite Memorial Home
Medical Transport drivers: (Licensed driver to take residents to Bluffton, Lima, Findlay doctors’ appointments)
The Quarry Farm Nature Preserve in rural Pandora is celebrating National Hat Day on January 15.
To join in the fun, wear your favorite warm hat and take part in their Annual Hat Day Night Hike from 6 to 7:30 p.m. If the sky is clear, you'll see the waxing moon just two days before it is the full January Wolf Moon. Cookies and hot chocolate will follow in the Seitz Family Pavilion.
The answers to the following questions are nobody’s business but your own. If you can answer yes to any of these questions, it may be time you took a serious look at what this behavior might be doing to your life.
Questions to help you decide if you have D.A.B. (Damaging Addictive Behavior):
At 6 p.m. on January 25, Anne Coburn-Griffis and Sophie the Pig of The Quarry Farm Natue Preserve will join the Bluffton Public Library for a fun animal book discussion. The event is open to adults and teens.
The book to be discussed is The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery. Register at the library by January 18 to check out your copy of the book.
This program is planned to be held in person at the library, 145 S. Main St.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is asking hunters in Hardin, Marion and Wyandot counties to submit their deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing for the remainder of the 2022 deer hunting season.
Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr's (“All The Light We Cannot See”) 2021 release, Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, ISBN 978-1-9821-8967-9) is dedicated to librarians: past, present, and future. Some of the novel occurs within a library in whatever time and location is being reported in these joined stories of five distinctly different characters.
James Meredith Day, age 66, passed awaay on December 21, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium. James, born and raised in Ohio, was a loving father, son, brother and husband, preceded in death by his father J. M. Day and mother Geneva Day, previously of Bluffton 1967-1971. (JM Day was a professor of music for Bluffton University and Geneva, a kindergarten and first grade teacher for Bluffton City Schools).
