Three summers ago Bluffton celebrated its sesquicentennial. This year it’s Columbus Grove’s turn.
The 150th anniversary celebration of the Village of Columbus Grove takes place now through June 22. Events take place daily and will conclude with a parade on Sunday, June 22, in downtown Grove. The parade starts at 1:30 p.m.
For a look at daily activities taking place this week open the printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton council takes a breather tonight. After holding sessions where the mayor resigned, a new mayor was appointed, and a sidewalk ordinance was approved, tonight's agenda appears to be pretty light.
Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, reports that 33.07 tons of refuse was dumped in the Spring Street Recycling Center in May.
Other items on the agenda are found in the attachment at the bottom of this story.
As the Bluffton area prepares for the Relay for Life event on Friday, June 20, downtown businesses are showing their support.
The Relay planning committee has hung shoes above store fronts. Purple is the official color for this year’s theme: Believe.
The shoes remind everyone of the battle that cancer patients face each day while fighting this disease. The Relay for Life event format encourages everyone to “walk a mile in support of cancer research.”
During the May clean up the village reports 33.07 tons of refuse was collected over a two-week period at the Spring Street recycling center.
Using an estimated figure of 4,000 residents in Bluffton, how many pounds of crap was dumped per resident during spring clean up? First off, 33.07 tons is 72,906 pounds. The answer is 18.2 pounds.
This fact begs the question: Is every person in Bluffton – babe in arms to elder at Maple Crest – collecting 18.2 pounds of junk each year, or slightly over 1.5 pounds per month?
Students from Wisconsin and Minnesota will study music at Bluffton University with the help of scholarships they earned as winners of Bluffton’s 2014 Performing Scholar Competition.
Kyle Johnson-Evers of Muskego, Wis., and Anna Cammarn of Albertville, Minn., have been awarded renewable scholarships valued at $80,000 and $72,000, respectively, over four years.
