The Bluffton Lions Club will begin meeting in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall. The first meeting is at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 15. Joyce Barga will speak on the “Guiding Light” home for pregnant teens.
The current Lions newsletter is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
The ghosts of history past will come to life at the Allen County Museum, Lima, on Thursday, Oct. 17.
Have a conversation with Ben Faurot, Sheriff Jesse Sarber, or Lieutenant Commander Edmund Taylor. Chat with Elizabeth MacDonell about her electric car. Former first lady Martha Washington will tell you about Mount Vernon while the Meadow Gold Milkman will share stories of home deliveries. Aurelia McCullough will narrate her story of traveling to Ohio via Conestoga Wagon.
Natasha Trethewey, the Poet Laureate of the United States, will deliver Bluffton University’s annual Keeney Peace Lecture at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Founders Hall.
Trethewey will read from her work—including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 collection “Native Guard”—during her presentation, titled “On Poetry and History.” The event is free and open to the public.
The Village of Bluffton's Safety Committee will be meeting Monday, Oct. 7 at 11a.m. at the Town Hall according to Nancy Kindle, village fiscal officer.
The year is 1963 - according to the license plate on the turned-over truck. The scene is the construction of one of the Interstate 75 overpasses around Bluffton. We don't have the specific information about this accident, but the photo reveals the following:
1 - Bluffton fire department responded. Truck number 2, a late 1930s-era Mack, is parked in the southbound lane. Is that Charles Swank of the fire department, talking the the man in the sunglasses?
