The Bluffton Sportsmen’s Club will hold the 2024 Trout Derby on Sunday, May 5 at Buckeye Lake, accessible from Main St., Snyder Rd. and Spring St. The club member who catches Trout No. 1 on Derby Day between 2:00-4:00 p.m. will receive ½ of the jackpot plus $1,000. The prize is redeemable through the Sportsmen’s Club.
The Swiss Community Historical Society will hold its Spring Meeting on Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 p.m. in the Patio Room at Maple Crest. Gary Wetherill will give a presentation on the native people who lived in Ohio prior to settlers arriving in in the late 1700s.
The following meetings and an Arbor Day celebration have been scheduled by the Village of Bluffton. The meetings will be at the Bluffton Town Hall, unless noted.
Tree Commission (Arbor Day Celebration) on Saturday, April 27 at 10:00 a.m. at the Bluffton Community Pool
CORRECTION: An additional book credit has been listed.
At this writing on Tuesday, just seven tickets are still available for the annual Friends of the Library Tea at Bluffton Public Library on Thursday, April 25 from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
The guest speaker is local author Perry Bush, a professor of history who has written three books:
Dancing With the Kobzar, Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America and Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won, and Peace, Progress and the Professor: The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith.
Tickets for the formal tea are $20.00; cash or check accepted.
