May 2020

Cooperative effort of the Icon and Bluffton chamber; provides all local business details

If you want to know what businesses in Bluffton are open, the Bluffton Icon and Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce can help you.

The cooperative effort of chamber and Icon provides a business status update, and it offers lots of new information as Ohio starts to reopen.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE BUSINESS STATUS REPORT

The report is divided into the following groups for easy access:
• Food
• Leisure
• Retail
• Services
• Worship

Twice a week hosted by Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs

Paula Scott of Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs will begin holding virtual “coffee hours” twice a week. Once you have the link, you can "drop by" or RSVP to let Paula know what you'd like to talk about.

• Thursdays at 6 p.m.
• Tuesdays at noon

Request an invitation (link) at mailchi.mp/c7da482bd3f3/bce-email-signup.

Honoring cyclists or trikers injured or who lost their lives in accidents

Bluffton cyclists and trikers are invited to join in the Northwest Ohio Virtural Ride of Silence at 6:45 p.m., Wednesday, May 20, according to Corwin Croy.

"If riding on the Lions Way Bike path and or community streets, you are advised to ride as an individual and to provide ample space for seniors, couples, families, families with baby carriages, dog walkers, and other cyclists," he said. 

With floods in our memories, what should we call yesterday's Riley Creek conditions?

Bluffton’s flood experiences require news outlines like the Icon to select with care words fitting the weather conditions of the day.

To call Tuesday’s waterflow a flood might be overkill. To call it a deluge, well, that too, is in question. Same with torrent, saturation of water, flash flood and even high waters.

To view the bank of the Riley overflowing into the Buckeye once upon a time was a rare and frightful experience. Not so in 2020. Tuesday’s rain blocked roadways, but hardly touched East College Avenue at Harmon Field. Same to Vance Street and Cherry.

Here's today's installment of the Bluffton High School Class of 2020 Senior Spotlight. Each weekday until the end of May the Icon will feature photos and future plans for four BHS seniors.  Students will be featured in a four-set random order. 

Bluffton American Legion Post 382, has canceled all its public Memorial Day events, according to Dennis Morrison of the Legion.

This year's event canceled are the traditional Memorial Day parade, ceremony at Maple Grove Cemetery and the chicken barbecue.

 

New Leaf Landscape Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235, Ada, has Memorial Day items, and the garden center is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, May 25, Memorial Day.
Phone: 419-634-0351 
Website: www.newleafgardencenter.com

 

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Welcome to the Icon's feature "Wear your mask proudly." We invite viewers to send a photo of themselves wearing a mask. 

It's a way to encourage viewers to wear masks when in public and to recognize those who are thoughtful enough to take the time to wear one.

Send your mask photo to: [email protected].

Enter the Icon's newest contest - winner takes home a Padrone's Pizza

HERE ARE PHOTOS 7, 8 and 9!
This week’s Icon contest took 147 years to put together. 

The Icon invites viewers to enter “My Favorite Year” contest. The winner will receive a 14-inch, 1-item Padrone’s Pizza. 

Click here to view photos 4, 5 and 6.

Jane Shaw reminds Icon vewers that  R COOP, located at 2168 Road R, two miles north of Bluffton, is open this weekend.

Friday, May 22
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 23
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“We have some great decorative, farmstead and vintage items to put in and outside your home to enjoy,” said Shaw. 

“Most are one of a kind. Once gone, they won’t be available again.

R COOP will be open each Friday and Saturday from this weekend through the weekend of June 12-13. Phone: 419-302-2179

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