FROM BLUFFTON ICON - Fred Steiner, owner of Ada Icon, is the featured speaker at the 113th annual membership meeting of the Allen County Historical Society held at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 25, in Lima.
Steiner’s presentation is on the Western Ohio Railway, an electric interurban that passed through Main Street on Bluffton from 1906 to 1932.
His presentation title is “115 years ahead of its time, or what are those rails doing under Main Streeet?”
The talk will include dozens of photos of the interurban in Bluffton and stories about how it impacted the village.
By Fred Steiner
Completing my civic duty, on Friday I had my second appointment with the Needle they call Moderna.
Was it lovelier the second time around? Emphatically yes.
Everyone could use a little needling now and then. Especially now.
And, everyone who gets the Needle should tell others to get it. That would make the world a better, safer place. So, I’m telling you about it.
Plus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today: “Fully vaccinated people can gather indoors without masks with other vaccinated people and small groups of unvaccinated people in some circumstances.”
Note: This replaces a list posted last week and is a corrected list from that story.
The following students from Hardin County, Bluffton and Cory-Rawson were named to the Dean’s List for fall semester 2020-21 at Ohio Northern University. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must attain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and be enrolled full time.
By Fred Steiner
It is a certainty that “The Covid-19 Era” will resonate with us as “The Great Depression” did with our parents and grandparents.
The message “never throw anything away because you never know when you might need it,” is among the what-did-your Depression era grandparents and parents teach their Baby Boomers children?
That Great Depression generation’s continual reminder that things may be great today, but, once upon a time that wasn’t the case, can only mean they experienced something that we know very little about today.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has issued the following statement on the situation at the U.S. Capitol:
"This is an embarrassment to our country. This must stop immediately.
"The President should call for the demonstrators to leave our Capitol Building. The final step in the constitutional process of electing our president has been disrupted.
"The stopping of the count of the Electoral College votes has occurred because the security of the U.S. Capitol has been breached by a violent mob.
"As a nation of laws, this is simply not acceptable. Lawlessness is not acceptable. This is an affront to our Constitution and everything we hold dear.
