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Bluffton Cancer Crushers team's basket raffle underway now at the hospital

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 11, 2012 - 10:31am

Bluffton Hospital associates are participating in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and have formed a team known as The Bluffton Cancer Crushers.

To raise money for this cause, the team is holding a basket raffle. Several baskets are on display in the front lobby of the Bluffton Hospital from June 11 to June 18.

Participants in the raffle may purchase a ticket and place it in the jar of the basket of their choice. Ticket are: $1 for 1, $5 for six, and $10 for an arms length.

Some of the baskets that are displayed are:

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Area county fair dates set

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 8, 2012 - 8:26am

County fair dates for 2012 are now set. Area fairs follow:

Paulding County - June 11 to 16
Allen County - Aug. 17-25
Putnam County - June 18-23
Hancock County - Aug. 29-Sept. 3
Van Wert County - Aug. 28-Sept. 4
Hardin County - Sept. 5-9

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Mennofolk comes to Bluffton for a long weekend of music in July

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2012 - 1:19pm

By Jake Dowling, Icon intern
Mennofolk is returning to Bluffton after several years of absence. It will include three stages of acoustic music over a span of two days according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, director of the event.

"It is definitely an awesome festival," she said. "These bands are really good and I don't know any other venue in northwest Ohio that can pull in bands like this."

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Bluffton Lions Wheels Festival Friday, June 15

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2012 - 10:32am

Bluffton Lions present the 45th Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-In, Friday, June 15.

The event takes place in downtown Bluffton from 2 to 8 p.m. Jeff Houston, 1950s DJ will play music from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The Flag City Cloggers will perform from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the Night Jazz Swing Band will perform on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn from 6 to 8 p.m.

Several Bluffton downtown businesses will hold sidewalk sales all afternoon.

A registration form for car owners is an attachment to this story.

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Artspace/Lima features hand-pulled: Ohio printmakers' works June 16-28

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 6, 2012 - 6:06am

ArtSpace/Lima will mount the special exhibit, Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers opening on Saturday, June 16, 2012, with a public reception for the artists and their friends from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Ellen Nelson Gallery.

Hand-Pulled: Ohio Printmakers entries were solicited from any Ohio artist working in traditional print-making media. The show, which includes 32 works by 18 printmakers, will feature a wide variety of print media, including intaglio, wood, linoleum, and plastic reliefs, lithographs, silk-screen prints, collographs, and monoprints.

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"Madagascar 3" shown at Shannon June 8-14

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 5, 2012 - 3:38pm

Peter Suter of Shannon Theatre announced that "Madagascar 3" (PG) will be premiering at the theatre from June 8 -14.

Show times follow:

2D - Each evening at 7 PM with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30.

3D - Each evening at 9:30 PM with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 4 PM.

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