Four Bluffton residents will share their stories on WTLW TV 44's Grace for Today program in early February.
Phil and Sharon Zimmerly, of Common Grounds coffee shop, Jim "Train" King of Ebenezer Mennonite Church and Beth Boehr-Miller, who recently launched a news business, are the guests, according to Christina Ryan Claypool, herself a Bluffton University graduate, and host of the television program, which airs at 9 a.m. each morning.
Here is the Bluffton Methodist Episcopal choir. Fortunately someone took the time to write the names of the members, so today, although most of the names are unfamiliar to us, we, at least know who they are. Beyond that there are several other things in the photo worth pointing out.
First the members: Standing from left, Oren (Soapy), Florence Bogart, (woman unidentified), Alice Lambert Lugibill and Effa Grindell.
The annual Bluffton Middle School Science Fair was held on Jan. 21. There were 23 students presenting projects with 13 receiving a score of superior. Fifteen judges took the time to review these 23 projects, including teachers, retired teachers, engineers, doctors and professors. The students scoring superior have the opportunity to compete at District Science Fair at Ohio Northern University on March 13. They will be competing with approximately 200 of the best projects from an eight-county region.
Students (from left-to-right) in the picture:
Ina M. Ewing, 89, Pandora, Ohio, died at 8:03 p.m., Jan. 21, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. She was born Aug. 6, 1920, to Ralph and Ethel (Pacey) Cherry in Pandora. In 1940 she married Marcus Moser and he died in 1971. She married Cliff Stewart in 1971 and he died in 1972. She married Stanley Ewing in 1976 and he died in 1994.
She was a homemakier and worked in the cafeteria at RCA and Whirlpool, Findlay, She was a member of St. John Mennonite Church, Pandora. She was also a member of the Putnam County Farm Bureau.
