Bill Yokas, senior vice president for manufacturing at DTR Industries, Bluffton, is the featured speaker at the 7:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 13, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The breakfast will be held in the third floor of the town hall.

The breakfast is open to the public, however persons planning to attend must RSVP to [email protected] by noon, Wednesday, Nov. 11.

By Fred Steiner

Recently it occurred to me that I would soon (on Nov. 9) enter my sixth decade of existence. Wanting to make the event memorable I asked my wife for suggestions on how to celebrate it.

She immediately went on Facebook and asked a host of people who I hardly recognize what I ought to do 60 times on Nov. 9. Several yawned. A couple responded.

It was my nephew, Nate of Homewood, Illinois, whose response caught my attention. He suggested to "drive the trailer to the dump 60 times."

Allow me to explain.

NDN is found on a black vehicle usually parked on Grove Street or in the Riley Court parking lot. The initials stand for Ned (and) Deb Niswander.

Belles & Beaux
Scores bowled on: Nov. 1
Men's High Game
Wayne Diamond 246
Jeff Bugner 233
Derek Dukes 201
Steve Swisher 199

Lima artist H.A. (Herb) Vonderau has several paintings on exhibit in November at Common Grounds coffee shop on Main Street, Bluffton. The artist does house and people portraits and other themes. He attended Ft. Wayne Art Institute, Community College of Rhode Island and Rhodes State College.

He teaches drawing classes at Otterbein Assisted Living Homes, Cridersville. His work has been featured in galleries in Rhode Island, Florida, Ohio and Indiana. His work is also regularly featured in local coffee houses.

This plate requires some thought. The major hint is that it is on Dr. Mark Yoder's vehicle. Imagine you are in the chair and the doctor asks: "Better one, or better two?"

The Bluffton streetscape program will have its official ribbon cutting on the Blaze of Lights afternoon, according to Fred Rodabaugh, Bluffton mayor.

The longest ribbon in Bluffton ribbon-cutting history will stretch across Main Street in front of the town hall prior to the start of the Blaze parade. The ribbon cutting will take place is a brief ceremony at approximately 4:55 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28.

By Tanya Pike

On trick-or-treat night last week I was driving down the street of a modest neighborhood in town. The mostly ranch style houses were festive with Halloween decorations. Most were gently scary - grinning pumpkins, orange blinking lights, ghosts made from bedsheets swaying in the trees. The kids were just beginning to emerge from their houses, bags at the ready to haul home their candy stash.