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An after-hours pool party fundraiser is planned for the Brockert/Mikesell families at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool from 6 to 9 p.m., Sunday, July 17.

Admission is $3 a person (sorry, pool passes not accepted). Donations are being accepted. Pizza will be available for sale. A silent auction is also part of the event.

All proceeds from the event go to the Brockert/Mikesell families.

The Icon spotted this Ohio plate at the Wheels' Fest. Any one with an idea of its meaning, let us know.

The Mennonite Memorial Home is needing a Mobile Meal driver. This volunteer position is for just one day, on the second Monday of each month.

The Mobile Mealdriver would deliver meals at 11:30 a.m.. Meals are delivered to those living within the village. To volunteer for this position, please contact Mary Ann Ring, Volunteer Coordinator, at 419.358.1015.

The Bluffton High School class of 2006 will hold a five-year reunion later this month. The reunion is at 5 p.m. (food will be ready at 6 p.m.) Saturday, July 23, at The Bluffton Community Sportmen's depot on Spring Street.

The cost is $10 per person. Class members are asked to bring their own beverages.

Bluffton University will offer two mathematics workshops Aug. 9-11 for middle and high school math teachers and intervention specialists.

Aug. 1 is the registration deadline for both "Become a Master Teacher in Middle School Probability and Statistics Topics," taught by Marilyn Link, a retired teacher from Coldwater, and "Using Rich Problems to Learn and to Teach Good High School Mathematics, Course 2." That course, which differs from last year's similarly named workshop, will be taught by Duane Bollenbacher, an adjunct faculty member at Bluffton.

O. Genice King, 82 of Bluffton died at 4:39 a.m. July 14, 2011 at Mt. Carmel East Hospital, Columbus. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral and Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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