Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) is accepting entries for its “Big Idea” business concept contest. The contest is open to residents in Allen, Hancock, Putnam and Hardin counties.
RULES AND ENTRY FORM IN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY
The contest offers cash prizes for the best new business concepts submitted, according to Denise Durenberger, BCE executive director and assistant professor of business at Bluffton University.
Citizens National Bank will host a series of free seminars featuring Robert J. Morgan, Senior Consultant with Austin Associates, LLC.
Business owners are invited to hear Morgan present his economic forecast for 2014. He will discuss current market conditions and what he expects to see in regards to unemployment, housing and the challenges facing business owners in the upcoming year.
Farthing Real Estate and Auctioneers, Findlay, announce the sale of four parcels at public auction at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 26, on the premises at 3576 and 3598 State Route 103, Bluffton.
The property includes 58 acres of farm ground and woods, two homes and buildings, farm equipment and personal property.
The owners are james and Imogene Benroth and Judith Houdeshell.
For a complete listing of the items at auction open the attachment at the bottom of this story.
New Leaf Landscape Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235 north of Ada, has a fall planting sale going on.
The sale includes 25 to 50 percent of all potted shade and flowering trees and specially marked balled and burlap flowering shade and evergreens.
Selected container grown shrubs and evergreens are 25 to 50 percent off. Ornamental grasses are 25 percent off.
Tea roses and fruit plants and water garden plants are 50 percent off. The greenhouse has a clearance area including arbors, trellis, pots and other items.
The Garver brothers of Ada have upholstered nearly every thing imaginable since opening Fine Touch Furniture and Upholstery. This fact is well known by many of their Bluffton customers.
The 513 N. Johnson St., Ada, business, opened in 1986 after brothers Randy and Dan Garver left Findlay Furniture, where they learned the upholstery trade.
