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The Quarry Farm News for Winter 2023 has been released including details about  scheduled events such as the annual Hat Day Hike on Sunday, January 15.

Readers are also invited to send an email if interested in setting up a program. Contact facilitator Anne Coburn-Griffis for more information.

Read the newsletter HERE.

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, January 13.

Blanchard Valley Health System-Bluffton Hospital is the breakfast sponsor and Greenhorn will be providing the breakfast.

Breakfast will be served at 7 a.m.

Program begins at 7:30 a.m.

Presentation: Myron D Lewis, President and CEO of Blanchard Valley Health System, will give an update on the state of healthcare.

Chamber director Jim Enneking will also give an update on new member software.

How many Blufftonites have befriended this duck that stands out amongst the mallards on village waterways? Some call him George. Follower and photographer Lyle Henry notes that the duck has been a Bluffton resident for more than a year and a half, and that while his first Trout Derby was a little unsettling for George, he's gotten used to it.

The Bluffton Board of Zoning and Building Appeals will meet at 7:00 p.m. on January 10 in the third-floor Community Room at the Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main St.

Applicants Ryan and Jessica Meyer are asking the Village of Bluffton for permissions to convert the former True Word Tabernacle church at 104 East Elm St. into a multiple apartment facility. Allen County Assessor's records show the 9,844 square foot building was constructed in 1920 and renovated in 2004.

A packet for the January 9 regular meeting of the Bluffton Council has been issued. The meeting will take place at 7:00 p.m. on the third floor of Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main.

The 33-page document includes:

- Agenda

- Voucher Report

- Covid- 19 Report from Allen County Health Department (community risk level high)

- Proposed Ordinance No. 01-2023 regarding publishing changes to the Code of Ordinances

Kay L. Ziessler, 80, passed away January 9, 2023 at the Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay.  Kay was born August 19, 1942 in Bluffton to the late Denver and Olive (Schumacher) Zimmerly.  On May 11, 1963 she married Owen Ziessler and he survives.  

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