By Liz Gordon-Hancock
Bluffton Farmers Market is the place to be on Saturday mornings in town. According to the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, our town "boasts the best farmers market in northwest Ohio."
In celebration of our small but mighty farmers market, the Icon will be featuring a vendor each week over the course of the summer.
Icon note: Friday's chamber breakfast provided one of the most informative programs on a topic that affects everyone in Bluffton. We urge viewers to open the attachment to this story for more information.
Bluffton's H 2 O: where it comes from and where it goes.
That topic gained the attention of a Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce full house during its June 14 breakfast week.
Auctions on 309 will hold a public auction in Bluffton on Saturday, June 22. The auction starts at 10 a.m. and takes place at 216 E. Jefferson St., and includes the estate of Deborah Diller. The display ad at the bottom of this story shows items at the auction.
Naturalist Dan Hodges, from Johnny Appleseed Metro Park District, will be teaching on Dragonflies and Damselflies on Wednesday, June 19 at 6 p.m., in the Bluffton Public Library's lower level meeting room.
The library requests you register for this event. This event is hosted by the library.
For more information, please visit their website (link below).
Bluffton Public Library hosts the ONU Healthwise Mobile Health Clinic on Friday, June 28 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The clinic offers free screenings for blood pressure, osteoporosis, and blood sugar and cholesterol, but please note, you must fast for 12 hours to do blood sugar and cholesterol screenings.
The Mobile clinic bus will be parked outside the library.
The Mobile clinic bus will return again to Bluffton on July 26.
The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be parked outside Bluffton Hospital on Thursday, June 27 for a local blood drive from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The bloodmobile will be parked at 139 Garau Street, in the hospital parking lot.
To schedule your blood donation appointment, call 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to redcrossblood.org, sponsor code “bluffchos.”
The Bluffton Cattle Club will be going to the State Fair on July 31. As a fundraiser, the club will be selling chicken barbecue tickets for $8.50, not including dessert and drinks. The dinner will be Sunday, July 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bluffton Middle School. See a Bluffton Cattle Club 4H member to buy tickets.
Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center announces construction of an education center designed to train new physicians.
With the support of local donors, St. Rita’s will soon begin construction on a 48,000-square-foot education center to be built on the corner of Market and Collett streets.
Sen. Sherrod Brown was one of many members of the US Senate who co-sponsored a resolution recognizing Senior Corps Volunteers for over 50,000,000 hours served in 2018 of direct service through more than 23,000 nonprofit, educational, and faith-based community groups nationwide.
Senior Corps is a network of national service programs for Americans 55 years and older, made up of three primary programs that each take a different approach to improving lives and fostering civic engagement.
