Bluffton Scrap Artist Quilter's club will hold its annual fall festival quilt show at Maple Crest from10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 25.

Each year over 200 people attended this one-day show.
This year's quilt show's theme is "Quilts From Our Area: Past and Present."

Entries are from quilters in the Bluffton area as well as club members. These items represent many ways of quilting, items and sizes.

Eighty quilted items on will be on display. A full-color brochure will have a picture of and provide specific information relating to each piece.

Alee Gratz-Collier

So, Alee, what year did you graduate from BHS?

2004.

Where do you work?

At the Revolver Restaurant, Findlay. I'm a waitress.

Tell me about the best tip you ever received.

We pool our tips. One night there was a guy who was showing off. He was with another couple. It might have been a business dinner. The dinner cost $150 and he tipped $200.

If you ever had a vanity plate, how would it read?

Rachel Crawford

Rachel Crawford, an interior designer with the architectural firm of R.D. Neff & Associates in Bluffton, recently passed the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) Examination.

Passage of the Examination and earning the NCIDQ credential signifies that Crawford has met the standards for education, experience and examination for interior designers in North America.

By Mary Pannabecker Steiner

Like Santa and Mrs. Claus, Don and Jodi Brauen are busy in their workshop these days. The Brauens, though, aren't making toys. Instead, they're creating tiny white ghosts and snowmen, fat, round scarecrows, angels, and dark red apples hanging side by side on a string - all from the assorted varieties of gourds they raise in a field next to their farmhouse.

Click here to view photos of the gourds.

Ron Friesen will present a program about vintage 1930s-era toys at Bluffton Public Library on Monday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. Participants are invited to bring their favorite toys to share.

A special event prize drawing will also be held, with the winner receiving four tickets to the Ohio Northern University Freed Center production of Knuffle Bunny.

Susan Lehman Sommer

What was your BHS graduating class? Did you have both baccalaureate and commencement ceremonies? What do you remember about that?

I'm a member of the BHS Class of 1965. We had both baccalaureate and commencement -- but I don't remember much about either.

Share some memories of the old grade school. What grade were you in when they opened the new building? Do you remember the first day...or at least the first few weeks?

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