Decorating for the holidays? The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce has a prize for that. The chamber sponsors a residential holiday lighting contest to help spread the Blaze of Lights spirit throughout the village.
$1000 in Chamber Bucks will be awarded in 2022. There will be five categories each with a $200 prize. They are:
Best Overall
Best Lights
Best Decorations
Mayor’s Choice *
Chamber Choice *
To be considered for the Best Overall, Best Lights, and Best Decorations categories, an email including your name, address and phone number must be sent to [email protected] with the subject line “Residential Lights” or mail to Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 142, Bluffton, OH 45817 by December 2nd.
The Bluffton High School girls basketball squad defeated visiting local rival Lima Central Catholic Tuesday night 47-40 in non-league action to keep its record unblemished.
At the November Board of Education meeting for the Bluffton Exempted Village Schools, the 2023-2024 School Calendar was established, providing a total of 180 days of instruction and 3 days of Staff Service. The full calendar is attached and highlights are below.
Serendipity brought civil engineering student Vini Vieira de Souza from Brazil to Northwest Ohio, where at every turn he’s encountered people with an Ohio Northern University connection who are as committed to helping him succeed as he is to succeeding.
This summer, his journey brought him to Wessler Engineering in Bluffton, Ohio where three ONU alums are showing him that relationship-building — that distinctive ONU attribute — is an excellent foundation not just for college, but for life
Dr. Martina Cucchiara, associate professor of history at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, “Life and Death in the Shadows: Hiding Jews in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe during the Holocaust,” at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December. 2 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
Cucchiara’s topic was inspired by the Bluffton University student play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” In July 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation. After more than two years, in August 1944, the Germans discovered their hiding place and arrested the family along with four other Jews. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.
The first of three Advent services at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 30.
Join us in thanking Wendy’s of Bluffton for advertising in both the Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon. The restaurant is located at 352 State Route 103, phone 419-358-0413.
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COLUMBUS – According to provisional statistics, 16 people were killed on Ohio’s roadways this Thanksgiving holiday. During the five-day reporting period, from Wednesday, November 23 at midnight through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 27, 16 people were killed in 15 fatal crashes. In 2021, there were 14 fatal crashes in which 17 people were killed.
Of the 16 killed this year, two were pedestrians, 10 were not wearing a seat belt and six crashes involved impaired driving.
Bluffton University will host the Holiday Collage Concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 4 in Yoder Recital Hall.
Become wrapped in the sounds of the season during this holiday concert where the Bluffton music ensembles come together to celebrate. Singers and instrumentalists from the University Chorale and Concert Band will present a selection of holiday music including a medley of favorite Christmas songs.
The 2022 Blaze of Lights celebrations have kicked off the Christmas season in Bluffton: holiday music now plays for downtown shoppers during the day and the lights of the Ream Folk Art Display will sparkle at night through the first of the year.
The 36th annual Blaze of Lights Festival on Saturday, November 26, was attended by exceptionally large crowds along the Main St. parade route from the neighborhood of Boutique 415 to College Ave. Although blankets, hats and gloves were in evidence, the weather was pretty spectacular for late November in northwest Ohio.
