Bluffton has much to celebrate this coming World Fair Trade Day on Saturday, May 8.
Bluffton is the first town in Ohio to become a Fair Trade Certified Town. During the weekend, at the Bluffton Farmer's Market, the fair trade booth will offering a sampling of fair trade food items while supplies last.
Bluffton meets the requirements of the Fair Trade Federation because there are a number of businesses in town who use and sell fair trade items.
Raymond Victory of Rawson is a lifetime fisherman, but May 2 was the best fishing day he ever had. He caught tagged trout number 1 at the 2010 Bluffton Sportmen's Club fishing derby. The trout is worth over $1,000. He caught the fish on the north bank of the Buckeye.
Bluffton chamber members will hear what the new health care legislation means to individuals and business owners during the 7:30 a.m., Friday, May 14, chamber breakfast in the third floor of the town hall.
Patrick Paule of Savage & Associates, Perrysburg, is the speaker. He specializes in employee benefits for companies and individuals. The focus of his practice is with group benefits such as health, dental, and disability insurance. Other areas include buy-sell agreements, long term care insurance, key employee insurance, and worksite marketing.
Yesterday (April 30) was Arbor Day (celebrated in Ohio on the last Friday in April) and several members of the Swiss Community Historical Society planted Beech, Red Oak, Elm and Sugar Maple trees at the Swiss Homestead northwest of Bluffton. Our mission was to put in trees that were common in the community when Christian and Barbara Schumacher built what was then (1843) the second frame house between Bluffton and Pandora.
