June 2023

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Bluffton Exempted Village Schools will hold a Board of Education Meeting at 7:30 p.m. on June 27, 2023 in the Elementary Media Center, 102 S. Jackson St.

The meeting agenda:

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The following agenda outlines the Village of Bluffton Council Meeting to be held at 7:00 p.m. on June 26, 2023 at Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main St. (also attached as PDF.)

AGENDA

Opening Ceremonies

Call to Order, Mayor Johnson presiding

Pledge of Allegiance

Minutes

Approval of the minutes for the Village Council meeting held on Monday, June 12, 2023

Bills

Public Comment:

Committee Reports

Insurance Committee:

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The Apollo Career Center High School has issued the attached June board agenda for the regular board meeting scheduled for Monday, June 26, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. 

The meeting will be held in Apollo's Board room. 

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Bluffton University was recently named to the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s 2023 Transfer Honor Roll in recognition of the dynamic pathways the university has created to support community college transfer students.

Bluffton is one of the 208 colleges and universities selected for the honor. Colleges were named based on PTK’s “Transfer Friendliness” rating.

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Autism Life Center, a local nonprofit, will host an Autism "Rocks!" rock painting event from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 8 at Ottawa Metro Park, Wyandot shelter house.

Organizers note, "This is our largest family friendly community event of the year!  Our goal is to bring the community together to raise Autism awareness and acceptance by painting rocks with autism information on the back. 

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The Bluffton Lions Club board will hold a planning meeting on July 11 and the July club meeting is canceled while the club reorganizes following the death of president Jim Bemiller. The club notes that Bemiller had been active with Lions for 33 years. 

On June 1, eight Bluffton Lions served a community meal at the Senior Citizens Center. Seventy-two meals were served and donations totalling $167 were collected, which will be donated to the Food Pantry.

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Prior to the June 26 regular council meeting, the Village of Bluffton will hold Natural Gas Aggregation Public Hearings at 6 and 6:30 p.m. at Bluffton Town Hall.

The public hearings are an opportunity for residents to address council on the topic of natural gas aggregation. 

Aggregation was approved by Bluffton voters in the May 2 election with 279 yes votes and 39 no votes to the following:

Proposed (Resolution) Gas Aggregation Village of Bluffton A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage Shall the Village of Bluffton have the authority to aggregate the retail natural gas loads located in the Village of Bluffton, and for that purpose, enter into service agreements to facilitate for those loads the sale and purchase of natural gas, such aggregation to occur automatically except where any person elects to opt out?

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St. John’s United Church of Christ, 223 West College Ave., is inviting the community to its 150th anniversary Street Fair on  Saturday, August 12 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. The street fair will take place on West College  Avenue between S. Lawn and S. Jackson, right next to the Church. Featuring food, entertainment, kids’ activities, crafts, games and historical displays, there will be  something for everyone to enjoy.

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In 1943 a Bluffton man sat beside General Pershing in a bus

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

Spoiler alert – You’d better read this entire feature to the very end.

The longest-running column in the Bluffton News titled “Mainly Personal,” ran weekly from the very early 1940s to the late 1960s.

Next to sports and obituaries, it was the most watched-for column in the paper. Ted Biery created it, Milt Edwards continued it and Charles Hilty kept it going.

What was it? Let’s put it this way–It was 80 years ahead of Twitter, TikTok and any social media conception imaginable. It included several very short pieces on Bluffton residents and former residents, basically being themselves.

At the bottom of this story is a 1943 sample of one of the columns.

Here is a Bluffton brush with history, posted in the April 8, 1943, Bluffton News Mainly Personal column.

Meeting an internationally famous general most unexpectedly was the experience last week of Willard Lee, residing northwest of town, while on a bus between Toledo and Detroit.

Lee took a seat in the bus beside an elderly looking gentlemen and the two struck up a conversation touching on such topics as the weather, crops and the war.

CONTINUES

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By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton Sardines summer swim team defeated visiting Wapakoneta convincingly in a Western Ohio Aquatic League meet on a cool and overcast Thursday evening, June 22, at the Bluffton Community Pool.

Bluffton won the combined team event decisively, and swept the boys and girls dual meets.  

The Sardines handily won the overall event, 792-444. Bluffton beat the Wapak boys 388-221, and defeated the visitors 404-223 in the girls dual meet.

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