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Letter: I can't seem to put down "Bluffton Anthology"

Eagerly waiting for the next edition of "A creek runs through it."
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 10, 2021 - 4:40pm

Icon viewers:
Much as I try, I can't seem to put down this book I purchased on Amazon  last week. 

Good trick to keep people reading – sprinkle their name onto a page every now and then.  Dang if it doesn't take me all the way back to the summer of 1958 when I moved to 150 Grove Street. 

 Rudi's essay hooked me right off the bat, but tell him for me that gasoline was not 30 cents a gallon, it was 27.9. 

That off my chest, I am collecting a whole bunch of corrections to mistold stories. 

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NNO - it's back!

Bluffton's most family-oriented event of the summer returns Aug. 3
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 10, 2021 - 1:12pm

National Night Out is back.

Bluffton’s most family-oriented event of the summer returns after a one-year cancellation, according to Matt Oglesbee, Bluffton police department lieutenant, heading up the event.

The evening generally attracts upwards to 2,500 persons.

This is the 7th Bluffton NNO celebration and it takes place Tuesday, Aug. 3, at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool.

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To the finish line

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 10, 2021 - 1:10pm

Ethan Roby races to the finish line in Monday's opening swim meet of the season. Bluffton defeated Ada at home. The Sardines travel to Kenton for a Thursday, June 10, meet and then to Van Wert on Monday, June 14. The next home meet is versus Westside on Thursday, June 17.

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Triplett Foundation awards $5,000 grant to Child Development Center

Enables the purchase of an outdoor screened area in its playground for infants and toddlers
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 10, 2021 - 1:04pm

The R.L. and Etta L. Triplett Foundation, based in Bluffton, this spring awarded a $5,000 grant to the Bluffton Child Development Center, according to Tomm Triplett of Ft. Wayne, Ind., president of the foundation board.

“The grant enables the Center to purchase an outdoor screened area in its infants and toddlers playground area,” he said.

“Without the screen, staff members are required to put sunscreen on each of the children each time they go into the playground area in spring and summer.”

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Shirley's 99th birthday party Saturday

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 10, 2021 - 9:20am

Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn Co., 117 S. Main St., Bluffton, celebrates Shirley's 99th birthday on Saturday, June 12, according to Peter Suter.

BOGO bags of popcorn. All sales are donated to charity and a free copy of "Timothy Troyer Tries," book goes with each popcorn purchase.

"All in-store, retail sales will be donated to the Leipsic Community Center," said Suter.

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Rudolf, Gotthard and Henry Althaus

Our Swiss connection - part 29
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 10, 2021 - 6:15am

This is the 29th installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.

Three Althaus brothers Rudolf, Gotthard and Henry, each born in Landschaft, Bretzwil, Canton Basel, Switzerland, came to the America separately in the 1840s and 1850s. The village of Bretzwil is located about 25 miles south of Basel, Switzerland.

Rudolf lived in Bluffton. Gotthard and Henry lived on farms in the Swiss Settlement.

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