The "traditional" emergency room entrance to the Bluffton Hospital will be closed during construction this week at the hospital.
Other construction plans include:
Concrete blocks are continuing to be laid for walls
Concrete is being poured for the parking lot on the corner of Kibler and Harmon roads. This parking lot will be for associate, volunteer and physician parking.
Completing underground plumbing for the new surgery area
In late June the village recognized Jo Souder who provided funds for the Bluffton town hall tower clock restoration. The project was donated in the memory of Lois E. Basinger (1918-2006). Dick and Jayne McGarrity provided the following information about the restoration.
Jo Souder and Lois Basinger shared a passion for antique clocks and travel, having accumulated quite a collection. Often they would purchase a clock that needed repair and take it to Cincinnati or even Chicago for repair.
Swiss Day, held on Sunday, June 27, this year celebrated both the 50th anniversary of the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Community Historical Society and the completion of restoration work on its historic Schumacher House at the Swiss Homestead on Bixel Road.
Bluffton Hospital construction update for the week of June 28 has been announced.
Contractors will be laying block foundation and plumbing for the new surgery area near the corner of Garau and Harmon Road.
The fine grade of the new parking lot at Harmon Road and Kibler Street will be completed.
Weather permitting, concrete pour may begin for the new Harmon Road/Kibler Street parking lot later this week. This will make some areas of the Harmon Road parking lot unavailable.
