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Senior citizens serving dinner Friday night at car show

The Bluffton Senior Center will serve sandwiches and salads of Friday evening, June 15 during the Bluffton Festival of Wheels.

Sloppy Jo sandwiches, hot dogs and chili dog sandwiches will be served along with a salad bar, desserts and drinks. All food is sold ala cart.

All the salads are homemade by the senior citizens' ladies. Serving starts at 4 p.m.

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Annual pie auction big part of Relay for Life

The sixth annual Relay for Life pie auction takes place at 7:45 p.m., Friday, June 22, at Bluffton University's Salzman Stadium.

In 2006, the first Relay for Life Pie auction was held and it has been an annual event ever since. The pies are judged with the first three places being announced as the pies are auctioned.

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

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

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

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

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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