Bluffton's 15 minutes of fame continues as the "breaking story" of a six-point buck enters Luke's Bar and Grill on Nov. 5 was featured on CNN on Nov. 10.
The deer broke through the front window of Luke's on Friday, Nov. 5. The incident was captured on several security cameras in the bar. The images were quickly added to the internet and suddenly the rest is internet history.
Fortunately only two customers were in the bar when the deer entered.
The CNN clip came after a Toledo television crew visited Luke's earlier this week.
Evelyn and Darvin Luginbuhl talk with Deb Lehman, R.N., and Crista Nofziger, aide, and her daughter, Lily, during Mennonite Home Health Service's 15th anniversary celebration Nov. 9 at the town hall.
(Photo to come) Were you born in Bluffton? Did your family always live on the nature preserve?
Yes, Bluffton Hospital. My first memories are of the house we lived in on Riley Street, down by the entrance to the Buckeye Park. I also remember riding big wheels on the sidewalks with the Agner boys. I'm not exactly sure when we moved to the Preserve, sometime in the early '80s. Anyways, mom and dad are going on 25+ years out there.
Dick Boehr is this month's speaker at the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The event is at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 12, in the community room of the town hall.
Boehr has been a member of the chamber and the Bluffton Business Men's Association, which eventually became the chamber. He has been in business in Bluffton for over 50 years. His talk title is: "Why Bluffton?"
Events begin at 7 a.m. as Joy Stemen will provide members with free massages. Jonathan Luginbill, Bluffton University music major, will provide instrumental music during that time.
Note: The Bluffton Athletic Boosters recently completed payment on the Ricky Matter Strength and Fitness Center. This story commemorates that event.
Photo and story by Josh Stallings, Icon university intern
The moment you step in the doors of the flawless weight room or enter the gate for a football game, the memory of a very talented and promising young man hits you like a sucker punch to the gut. The two structures are in remembrance of Ricky Matter, a Bluffton High School student who lost his life in a car accident six years ago.
A new pastor for St. John's United Church of Christ (UCC) preached in this Bluffton congregation for the first time on Sunday, Oct. 10.
Rev. Carol Clements, a graduate of the denomination's Lancaster (Pa.) Seminary, has long been active in heeding Jesus Christ's call for service to suffering humanity, even before her entering the Christian ministry as a second vocation.
As part of their learning about Veterans Day, the kindergarten classes at Bluffton Elementary made ornaments for Christmas trees that will be sent to military bases in Iraq.
Some of the kindergartners, their families, and teachers attended a ceremony at Kaleidoscope Farms on Sunday, Nov. 7. The kindergartners presented the ornaments to the veterans that selected the trees. The trees will be shipped as part of 300 trees from Ohio through Project Evergreen. FedEx provides the shipping.
Dr. Jim Zaffiro, professor of political science and coordinator of global sustainability education at Central College in Pella, Iowa, will discuss the building of global sustainability movements in communities at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, in Bluffton University's Yoder Recital Hall. The forum is free and open to the public.
Dr. George Lehman, Howard Raid professor of business at Bluffton University, will discuss economic changes in China over the last 20 years at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The colloquium is free and open to the public.
Last June, Lehman was part of an eight-member Bluffton delegation that visited China for two weeks. "For a business professor, China is the place that has the most action right now," he said. "Our students had a great trip to China two years earlier, and I wanted to see it for myself."
