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BCE's June 11 Brown Bag features Marlena Ballinger

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 8, 2020 - 1:37pm

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) new online coffee hours and brown bag events mean you can join us from anywhere and can catch up with reruns if you missed out, according to Paula Scott, BCE director.

The next "brown bag" event is Turning Views into Clicks (phone calls, orders, appointments...)

At 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 11, BCE will be joined by Marlena Ballinger of the Dough Hook Meat Market to talk about the importance of digital content, including calls-to-action, menus, and newsletters.

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Family Hardware now Do It Best Family Hardware

Same products and services, now carrying Do It Best products
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 4, 2020 - 1:28pm

Family Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, is switching to the Do It Best chain of businesses this week, according to Jim Basinger, store owner.

“We will offer the same products and services as always, and we will now carry Do It Best products,” he said. 

These include Do It Best Look brand of paints, and Best Garden brand, which includes garden tools, sprayers and supplies. 

The change-over will involve large assortment of new color paint charts in the Main Street store, in addition to several other product line changes.

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BCE virtual coffee hour at noon Tuesday

Join a conversation with Paula Scott and Fred Steiner
Posted by Fred Steiner on June 1, 2020 - 9:39pm

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) invites Icon viewers to join in a virtual coffee hour as Paula Scott talks with Fred Steiner of the Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon at noon on Tuesday, June 2.

"We'll be discussing what's new with local businesses," said Scott, BCE director. "And, we have lots to talk about."

The conversation will also touch on some new features on the Icons and some behind the scenes look at how the Icon handles local news coverage during the business shutdown.

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R COOP open this weekend

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 29, 2020 - 10:51am

R COOP, 2168 Road R, Bluffton, is open Friday and Saturday, May 29-30, according to Jane Shaw, shop operator.

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Turned upside down by COVID-19

Some guidance, decade by decade, for how to adjust or compensate for the economic impact
Posted by Fred Steiner on May 27, 2020 - 10:00am

By Gary Reese
Faith Investments, Blufton
419-358-4207
Our world has been turned upside down by COVID-19.  

For the most part, we have never walked this road before – personally or as communities.  Many are facing loss of work, depletion of savings, delays in unemployment or other assistance, and so forth.  Others have had relatively few economic adjustments, but they are facing family, health, or interpersonal difficulties.  Times are hard all around.

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You can have your pancakes and eat them too!

Lu Lu's Diner reopens with regular hours
Posted by Fred Steiner on May 22, 2020 - 1:39pm

Please add strawberries to my pancakes.

As Bluffton reopens, Lu Lu’s Diner, 114 E. College Ave., is back in the breakfast and lunch business. The diner reopened on May 21, and is operating with a full staff and its regular hours.

Those hours are Mondays through Saturdays 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sundays 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Employees are wearing masks. The restaurant is being continually sanitized and tables are spread apart for the safety of customers.

Lu Lu’s is owned and operated by Justin Musil, who opened the popular eating spot in the summer of 2015.

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