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CORRECTION: This meeting begins at 6:00 p.m.

The November meeting of the Gardeners of the Bluffton-Pandora Area will take place at 6:00 p.m. on November 7 at the Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main., Bluffton. 

The topic is "Fall & Winter Gardening Variety Pack." Learn which perennial plants can still be split, how to plant spring bulbs like tulips, daffodils, iris, and which plants you can start in the middle of winter from hardwood cuttings and using milk jugs to start perennial seeds in the snow.

The tale of Bluffton's first teenage speeding ticket

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

Take a wild guess. You’ll be way off.

In which year was the first Bluffton teenager pulled over by a Bluffton police officer and charged with speeding?

Would you believe 1919?
The holders of this distinction are Raymond Stratton and Tesla “Tubby” Stearns. These Bluffton speed demons may have raced at the unheard speed, topping perhaps 15 miles per hour,  and in so doing created an incredible racket.

The story as we understand it follows from an interview we had with “Tubby” in 1989, when he lived at Mennonite Memorial Home, 70 years after the incident. First, a little background on these two potential juvenile delinquents. Stearns was a 1918 Bluffton High School graduate and Stratton was a 1919 grad. 

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