Seth Bixel (left), Project Manager, and Jeff Althaus, Assistant Project Manager, were presented certificates of "leadership and extraordinary service" by the Swiss Community Historical Society for their work on the restoration of the 1843 Schumacher House at the Society's Swiss Homestead on Bixel Road. (photo by Alice Lora)
Swiss Day, held on Sunday, June 27, this year celebrated both the 50th anniversary of the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Community Historical Society and the completion of restoration work on its historic Schumacher House at the Swiss Homestead on Bixel Road.
Summer readers are invited to join the "Pirate Book & Movie Club" at Bluffton Public Library. During the month of July, copies of J.M. Barrie's book Peter Pan will be available at the library's circulation desk.
A discussion of the book will follow a screening of a PG-rated movie based on the book, which will be shown at the library on Thursday, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m.
Joanne Golden, 77, of Bluffton, died at 8:40 p.m., June 28, 2010, at Springview Manor, Lima. She was born Feb. 25, 1933, in Toledo, Ohio, to Lyman and Donna Turner Barns. On Oct. 28, 1980, she married Samuel Golden and he died Sept. 6, 2009.
Mrs. Golden was a homemaker and worked at Richland Manor, Bluffton, for 30 years. She was a member of the Beaverdam Church of Christ and Eastern Star. She was a graduate of Lafayette-Jackson High School.
