The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, October 14. The meeting is held on the third floor of the Town Hall, 154 N. Main St.
The Bluffton High School student of the month for September 2022 is Hannah Davis, a senior with a 4.000 GPA. She is the daughter of Jane and Jon Inniger of Bluffton and Tim and Wendi Davis of Findlay.
Hannah is a member of the National Honor Society and Latin Club. She received student of the year in Latin 1 her sophomore year and in CP English 11 her junior year.
If Bluffton is a Swiss community, where are the mountains? is the topic of a presentation given by Fred Steiner at 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 17, at the Bluffton Public Library.
The talk explores the background of Swiss immigrants who settled the rural area between Bluffton, Pandora, Columbus Grove and Beaverdam, beginning in the 1830s.
In a PowerPoint presentation, Steiner will share stories and photographs of some of these first settlers. He will also provide some of the reasons that the Swiss left Europe for America.
PANDORA--Mahlon Marvin Geiger, 88, passed away October 8, 2022. Mahlon was born February 23, 1934 in Pandora to the late Monroe and Anna (Hofstetter) Geiger. He had previously been married to Phyllis Kersh and on April 22, 1989 he married Anne Balmer Geiger who survives.
