LIMA–The Lima-Allen County Safe Community Coalition reports there were 2 (two) fatal traffic crashes on Allen County roadways during the month of November 2022 for a total of 14 fatalities this year. One fatality recorded for this month was a result of a crash that took place in October.
The tables attached represent fatal crashes in Allen County for the entire year of 2022 (through November).
OTTAWA – The Bluffton swim team won a four-team meet against Ada, McComb and St. Henry at the Putnam County YMCA Monday evening. (Individual results HERE.)
The Pirate boys and girls each went 3-0 in the dual meet event.
In the combined boys/girls scores Bluffton beat Ada 95-58. They also defeated St. Henry 110-47 and splashed McComb 118-6.
The 2018 release of The Grinch is the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time. The movie surpassed Home Alone and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 release). Dr. Seuss’ 1957 book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" was the inspiration for many movie adaptations.
Holiday movies started playing on television in October of this year. They are a major draw for viewers. Although there is no statistic on how many Christmas movies we will watch on average this year, there is an abundance of opportunities. The media releases suggest 170 new Yuletide movies were made this year with the Hallmark and the Lifetime channels accounting for 66 of them.
Country music star, Blake Shelton and his mother, Dorothy Shackleford have worked together to produce Christmas movies for the Hallmark channel. The 2022 movie was the fifth installment of their series titled Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas. This movie premiered on November 26, 2022.
With so many hours of Christmas movies available to watch, what is the harm? Christmas can be an ideal time to binge-watch movies. One after another!
St. Mary Catholic Church, 160 N Spring St., Bluffton, has announced the following schedule for Masses during the Christmas and New Year season. The schedule is also posted on our Classifieds page with other worship schedules under “Events of Interest.”
Bluffton entrepreneur Holly Craycraft recently opened a brick and mortar shop for hand + home at 622 S Main St, Findlay. The Icon asked her a few questions about how this new phase of her goat milk soap and lotion business came to be.
Tell us about yourself and hand + home co.
Hi! I am Holly Craycraft, and I own hand + home co. I live in Bluffton, where I have a small herd of dairy goats that I raise and milk to make goat’s milk soaps and lotions. I just opened a brick and mortar shop in downtown Findlay that expands upon my farm business.
County Line Church, 4227 N Hardin Rd, will hold a Christmas program at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, December 18, followed by the regular 10:30 a.m. service. Children’s church will have a separate Christmas party during the regular worship service.
On Christmas Day, December 25, County Line Church invites everyone to a short Christmas service at 10:30 a.m.
New internet provider announced; two stop sign supplements installed
By Andy Chappell-Dick
The December 12 regular meeting of the Bluffton Council was brief, just 35 minutes. (Scroll down on https://www.bluffton-ohio.com/council for an archive of meeting packets.)
COMMITTEES
Utilities - Councilor Dave Steiner made an announcement that noticeably energized the room. The Cincinnati-based tech startup Omni Fiber will become Bluffton's newest internet service provider next year, when it plans to install a network of fiber optic cables in town. The new fiber optic cables will be added to existing AEP utility poles, and buried in neighborhoods where services are already underground.
The Omin Fiber website states that standard speeds are "up to" 500 Mbps, with enhanced packages of four times that speed. Costs will be comparable to the existing providers.
Tree Commission - Councilor Ben Stahl reported for the Tree Commission. Several tree maintenance tasks around town were handled by commission members themselves, rather than hiring out the work.
COLUMBUS–At the Ohio Middle Level Association annual state conference, held in Columbus November 10-11, 2022, head cook Rosanne Garmatter and the 8th grade team at Bluffton Middle School received special recognition.
Garmatter, who is the head cook at Bluffton Middle School and Bluffton High School, won a Northwest Ohio Regional Award.
Dominion Energy is sharing the following “scam red flags” and urging customers to watch out for utility scammers. This advice applies to scam calls in general.
"Even if the caller ID says Dominion Energy, our customers should be on alert about demands for immediate payment and threats of service disconnection," said Utibe Bassey, Dominion Energy's vice president of Customer Experience. "That is not how we do business. When any warning sign is present, hang up. Never share personal information."
