• Chamber of Commerce breakfast features Peter Suter
• Chamber-BCE workshop at 8:45 a.m. features Dr. Samuel Heiks
• Both events free and open to the public
CHAMBER BREAKFAST
Peter Suter, co-founder of Shirley’s Gourmet Popcorn Co., Bluffton, is the featured speaker of the Friday, Oct. 12, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Breakfast serving starts at 7 a.m. The program begins at 7:30 a.m.
The breakfast takes place on the third floor of the town hall. Jeanne’s Kitchen will provide the breakfast.
Friday, Oct. 12, First National Bank will host a football game takeover at Liberty-Benton High School stadium to celebrate their Kasasa banking accounts.
The event, which will include free admission to the first 200 fans, free giveaways throughout the game and $50 donations made to each team’s school for every touchdown during the game, is a way for First National Bank and Kasasa to give something back and say thanks to the local community for its ongoing support.
The Bluffton University men’s soccer team was defeated 3-0 by Earlham College on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. The Beavers fell to 2-8 overall and 0-2 in the HCAC while Earlham improved to 3-7-2 overall and 1-0-2 in the HCAC.
Senior Ben Kaufman (Ottawa-Glandorf) was recently named Heartland Conference Player of the Week for his work at Rose-Hulman on Saturday. Kaufman is the third Bluffton player to be honored this season and the second on the defensive side of the ball. Fellow linebacker Joe Maldonado took home Player of the Week honors following Bluffton's 20-0 shutout of Kenyon in week one.
The Mennonite Memorial Home (MMH) campus was a hub of activity on Sept. 29 as part of the Bluffton Fall Festival.
From 10 am to noon, visitors could peruse the Silent Auction items, eat lunch and pick up delicious home-baked goods from the Service Group’s bake sale.
Outside, the fun continued with craft tables with items for sale made by residents of the MMH campus and face painting, kiddie train rides and a hay dig for kids.
Fall Festival day at Maple Crest (Sept. 29,) was full of several events.
By 10 a.m. a colorful array of 31 tractors, 8 engines and one corn shredding machine was lined up ready to be examined.
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Maple Crest residents got a big kick out of riding up and down the rows of machines in a sulky pulled by TR Steiner’s tractor. For all who participated, the experience was a reminder of our agricultural heritage, and for many, it was an opportunity to relive farming moments in their personal histories.
