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First Mennonite Church is taking a shower this week. The steeple bricks are being power washed, motar is being checked and eventually a new roof will go on the steeple. Click for for photos and a video.

Workers are taking the First Mennonite Church to the showers this week. A power wash to clean bricks and check for loose mortar with an eventual replacement of the steeple roof is underway. 

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All Bluffton school doors, as of March 27, are now locked while school is in session. Visitors are required to "buzz in" to gain entrance into the specific building.

Each building office has a camera and video screen showing the "buzz-in" entrance of its building. The photo with this story shows the middle school entrance.

Katherine Kreuchauf, president of the Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation, is the speaker of the Friday morning, April 12, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

The breakfast is free and open to the public. It takes place in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall. Breakfast serving starts at 7 a.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30 a.m.

Following the breakfast, at 8:45 a.m., the chamber will hold a free social media workshop. Members may chose to attend one or both of these free events.

The Bluffton Senior Center has a tour bus going to the Smokey Mountains for five days, four nights departing on May 13, according to Bob Painter. 

The trip includes five spectacular shows, four deluxe breakfasts, four full-course dinner shows, including the Hatfields & McCoys, The Smith Family, The Dixie Stampede and the Comedy Barn.  Visit the Titanic Museum, Dollywood, The Smokey Mountain Opry and a two- hour guided bus tour of the Smokies.

There will be a blood drive at the Pandora United Methodist Church, 108 Washington St. (Route 12), Pandora, on Thursday, April 18.

The drive is from 1-6 p.m. and is sponsored by Pandora United Methodist Church and Riley Township Fire Department of Pandora.

To schedule an appointment, call the Red Cross at 419-523-4810 or visit redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: PANDORAUMC

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