The first free Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting of 2010-11 is at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 10, in the third floor of the town hall. Jerry Lewis, owner of the Bluffton McDonald's Restaurant, is the speaker.
Care to go geocaching? Here's the second (and the first) coordinates in The Icon Dash for Cache contest. Prizes are in each cache. There are six in all. Click here for more background on this contest. In the meantime, here are the first two cache coordinates.
COORDINATE NUMBER 1 - RELEASED SEPT. 4
"Bluffton's New View"
Jodi Brauen holds an angel gourd. She and her husband, Don, will hold an open house offering hundreds of decorative gourds that they have created just in time for several fall holidays. Their open house is Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19, at their 7140 Tom Fett Road residence. To view other photos of their gourd creations click here.
By Fred Steiner, one-time trombone player in the BHS marching band
There I was, minding my own business, on the goal line at Harmon Field on Friday night.
Suddenly the drum major ("field commander" is not in my vocabulary) blasted three of four times on the whistle. The next thing I knew I was marching out on the field with the BHS marching band.
It was my first venture on the field in 43 football seasons. That's so long ago that Elida, Ottawa-Glandorf and Bath were on the schedule the last time I looked.
Recent tennis results for the BHS girls netters show a close loss at Napoleon and three doubles teams placing at the Fostoria Invitational (at Findlay) Jess Hunter, Liz Diller and Rachel Sehlhorst lost singles matches at Napoleon, while the doubles teams of Ashlin Gable/Emily Sprague and Kristi Geiser/Shannon Koch were victorious.
Gable/Sprague remained undefeated at Findlay, taking the No. 1 doubles title, while the doubles teams of Geiser/Koch and Hunter/Diller each placed third.
Like Santa and Mrs. Claus, Don and Jodi Brauen are busy in their workshop these days. The Brauens, though, aren't making toys. Instead, they're creating tiny white ghosts and snowmen, fat, round scarecrows, angels, and dark red apples hanging side by side on a string - all from the assorted varieties of gourds they raise in a field next to their farmhouse.
