100 Years of Boy Scouting!!! Wow!!! Troop 256 from Bluffton has been a Scout Troop since 1939 and Pack 256 started in 1954. Boy Scout Troop 256 is selling T-Shirts Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting. For Information contact Dr. Darrell Groman or any Boy scout in Bluffton.
You may also stop by the Sports Warehouse 111 N. Main Street to purchase these shirts, all proceeds go to the scouts. Come on all past Troop 256 Boy Scouts and Pack 256 Scouts, help support this worthy fund raiser!
Do you realize that our roadsides and hedgerows of the past allowed for abundant migration for birds and butterflies?
These small creatures cannot get far without native grasses and foods such as berries, cattails, wildflowers and grasses that once grew along roadsides. Agribusiness chemical farming techniques have eliminated our traditional hedge rows to make large fields more appropriate for their huge machines to harvest and plow monocrops. And we mow our country roadsides.
When I visited Bluffton recently, I was impressed with all of the beautiful planters along Main Street from Stratton's Greenhouse. What a lovely way to add to the charm and beauty of the community.
I didn't know the X-ray machine was possibly still in the old Walter Gratz shoe store (my friends and I called him Walter Goose because he sold Red Goose shoes), but I remember stepping into it when my parents would take me in to get shoes at the store.
Seeing my foot bones, which were so interesting!, was quite enlightening. Perhaps it led to my daughter's career choice as an anatomist.
