June 2015

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BREAKFAST STARTS AT 8 a.m.
We are open for breakfast at 8 a.m., Tuesday-Friday and serve breakfast all day! It’s fresh and homemade. Hope to see you soon.

JUNE 9-12 LUNCH SPECIALS

TUESDAY
Tomato bisque
Turkey Reuben
Pulled pork
Italian chopped salad

WEDNESDAY
Meatball soup
Fish platter
Chicken fajita wrap
Shrimp avocado salad

THURSDAY
Minestrone soup
Lasagna roll ups with side salad
Shepherd’s pie with side salad
Strawberry spinach salad

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The Bluffton Area Relay for Hope wishes to thank the following donors of items in this year's silent auction. The auction list is posted elsewhere on the Icon.

Dwight & Norma Rader, Jerry & Betty Burkholder, Lori Powell State Farm Ins., Toledo Walleye, African Wildlife Safari Port Clinton, Columbus Magic Mountain, Lowell & Joyce Rossman, Legacy Feed Store, Boehm’s Freezer Beef,

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Everything from a corn hole game to gift certificates to area businesses.

This year's Bluffton Area Relay for Hope silent auction provides dozens of bidding opportunities for visitors and relay participants.

The silent acution is from 6 to10 p.m. in the Bluffton Family Recreation gym, 215 Snider Road. It takes place during the Relay, which this year is held at BFR.

The winner bidders do not need to be present at the close of the auction.

An attachment at the bottom of this story includes the items on this year's auction.

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Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St. Bluffton, announces the following features for the month of June:

●Beer-Poached Swordfish Steak in sauce over white beans, roasted tomato, baby carrots and olives

●Seasoned Pork Chops with smoked gouda grits, fried cabbage, arugula and balsamic blackberry sauce

●Cajun Shrimp Carbonara with andouille sausage, bacon, tomato, peppers, shrimp and gorgonzola

●Chicken Ranch Flatbread—our house ranch dressing, mozzarella, seared chicken, bacon, tomato, cheddar cheese, green onion

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Spectrum Salon, 442 N. Main St., Bluffton, celebrates its first anniversary in business with an open house on Wednesday, June 10, according to Mandy Kinn, owner.

Click here for story announcing the shop's opening in 2014.

"We want to thank all our customers for their suppport in the past year," said Kinn. "The Wednesday open house offers snacks, drawings for prizes and an opportunity for everyone to see what we offer."

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New Leaf Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235 Ada, has some great gardening gifts for 'Green Thumb Dads' on Father's Day.

These range from gift certificates to fruit trees, garden tools, berry plants, OSU and Michigan items, bird houses, bird baths and feeders, to trees, shrubs and rose bushes.

In addition New Leaf has a large selection of gardening supplies.

Open the attachment at the bottom of this story for more details.
New Leaf
419-634-0351
www.newleafgc.com

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Dancers' Elite dance recital is at 7 p.m., Saturday, (doors open at 6 p.m.) and 2 p.m. Sunday, (doors open at 1 p.m.) at the Bluffton middle school. Tickets are $7 at the door.

Deb Garlock can’t get off the dance floor. That’s because she took her own advice and followed her dancing dreams.

For the 35th dance season, young dancers, directed by Garlock’s Dancers’ Elite Studio, will close their year’s classes with a “Follow Your Dreams” dance program this weekend.

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The new phrase at Common Grounds is “break an egg.”

Actually two eggs.

This month the Main Street coffee shop added omelets to its breakfast fare. These are on the menu every Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings until 11 a.m., according to Phil Zimmerly, owner.

“You can create your own omelet,” said Zimmerly. He explained that customers have lots of choices.

For example: customers may choose any three of the following items for the custom-made omelet:
• Spinach, green peppers, red peppers, red onions, cheddar cheese or feta cheese.

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The following area residents recently graduated from Ohio Northern University, Ada.

Lauren Hector, daughter of D. Keith and Rhonda Hector, 111 Tr 20, Mount Cory, Summa Cum Laude from the College of Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design. Hector is a graduate of Cory-Rawson High School.

Tessa Howe, daughter of Jerry and Cindy Howe, 6275 Bentley Rd, Bluffton, College of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in management. Howe is a graduate of Bluffton High School.

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Genevieve Elaine (Buhler) Fast, died on May 17, 2015, from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was born in Bluffton, Ohio, on June 1, 1927, and was the oldest of four children born to Leucile and Gerhard Buhler.  

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