Mobile Meals of Bluffton is looking for volunteer drivers to deliver meals. Drivers are needed on the second Monday and the third Friday of each month. Meals are delivered only in the Bluffton community, a task that takes only 30-45 minutes.

Delivering Mobile Meals is a practical volunteer project that helps people in our community.   If you would like to help out with this worthwhile, important volunteer work, please contact Mary Ann Ring, MMH volunteer coordinator, at 419-358-1015, extension 248.

Bluffton’s new visitors’ Guide “Explore Bluffton,” a 46-page full-color booklet will be on downtown store counters on Tuesday.

Published by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, the guide includes a list of all chamber members and other businesses in the community, plus lots more.

The guide includes the following sections:
• Welcome to Bluffton
• Bluffton past and present
• Visiting in Bluffton
• What do see and do in Bluffton
• Living in Bluffton
• Doing business in Bluffton
• Photos of the community

If you’ve not marked Saturday, June 28, on your calendar, do so now. That’s the date that Bluffton’s going up in the air in all sorts of decorative colors and sounds.

It’s the date of this year’s Bluffton fireworks held at Bluffton University’s Salzman’s Stadium.

CHECK ATTACHMENT AT BOTTOM OF STORY FOR TEAM PHOTOS FROM SATURDAY.

Community Markets and parent company Fresh Encounter, Inc. are doing their part to help alleviate food shortage concerns throughout the state of Ohio by donating over $13,000 to area food banks and shelters.

April showers bring May flowers. If the first week of April is any indication of the rest of the month, it will be a wet month. According to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, 2.68 inches of rain fell in the Icon viewer area during April 1-7.

For a complete daily weather summary, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Bluffton schools will present a program showcasing its latest classroom technology during the Friday, April 11, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The program is in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.

In addition, Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will announce the three winners of its 2014 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition. The first place winner receives $5,000 in business start up costs; second place $1,000 in business start up costs; third place, a one-year free affiliation with BCE’s services.

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