If you have a green thumb, enjoy growing flowers, or want to try your hand at an arrangement, you are encouraged to enter the third annual Mennonite Memorial Home flower show. This year's event is Saturday, Sept. 24.
Cash prizes will be offered.
There are two categories and themes for the Creative Division:
Theme (1a) is "October Splendor." It includes any fresh floral either purchased or from your garden.
Exhibitors wanted for Maple Crest 2nd Annual Antique Tractor show.
Maple Crest Senior Living Village seeks a few good antique tractors. The senior living village is preparing for its second annual antique tractor show on Saturday, Sept. 24. The show will take place during the Bluffton Fall Festival.
Maple Crest extends an invitation to persons who have antique tractors or engines to exhibit their antiques. Last year among tractors shown included a 1944 John Deer D, a 1939 Minneapolis Moline Model R Cab Tractor, an engine made in Bluffton and other antiques.
Chad Grieser will become the branch manager of the Bluffton Chase office on Sept. 16. Grieser, a native of Jenera, has worked in the Bluffton branch for 2 1/2 years. Prior to being named branch manager was a personal banker.
Grieser is an Arlington High School graduate. He has attending Bowling Green State University. He and his wife, Ashley, live in Findlay with their two children, Ethan, 10, and Ellie, 8.
Bluffton University will host Game Day @ Bluffton Saturday, Sept. 3, when the Beavers meet Kalamazoo College in their football home opener at 2 p.m. at Salzman Stadium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children; children under 5 are admitted free.
Before the game, a picnic-style lunch will be available in a tent at the stadium from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost is $6.
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Several interesting events are scheduled for September at Maple Crest. Icon viewers may now view the September calendar. It is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
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