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Register online by May 7 and save $7 per camper

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Bluffton Family Recreation offers Camp Laffalot, a new camp this summer, and registration is now underway, according to Joseph Beagle director.

 Camp Laffalot will be held at BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday to Friday, July 10-14.

Register on line by May 7 at www.laffalotcamps.com using promo code 7FOR7 and receive $7 off the registration fee.

“Laffalot Summer Camp offers kids 6-12 years old a week of fun activities that will leave them smiling, exhausted and ecstatic,” said Beagle.

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Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2, comes to the Shannon Theatre for a Friday, May 5, 12:01 a.m. premier.

That means fans will start lining up on Main Street sometime on Thursday, May 4.

According to Pete Suter of the theatre, tickets sales for the midnight show will go on sale at 11 p.m. on Thursday.

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After 18 hours being posted on Icon's Facebook the story of the new coffee shop owners is hiting the ceiling.

The post has reached 17,970 people.

It has 60 shares and 165 "likes."

Also, 32 comments.

Based upon the above, this is, so far the story of the year in Bluffton...and it's still reaching people.

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Jeff Kantner of Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., announced his May bargains of the month:

• Verona Sling-back stacking chair, $16.99
• Verona round glass-top bistro table, $19.99
• Hardwood lump charcoal, 20 lb., $11.99
• Weed B Gon, rebate, $9.99
• Neverlink heavy-duty garden hose, 50 feet, $14.99
• Scott’s turf builder, rebate, $16.99|• Miracle Gro, flower food or plant food, rebate, $5.99

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Thelma Pearl Bucher, 87, of Findlay and formerly of Road 4 in Pandora, died May 1, 2017, at Fox Run Manor, Findlay. Thelma was born Nov. 25, 1929, in Pandora, Ohio, to the late Err and Bertha (Nemire) Bridenbaugh.  On June 21, 1947, she married John Bucher who preceded her in death on March 28, 2011.

Thelma graduated from Pandora High School and then worked as a bookkeeper at Pandora Milling Company and later as a bookkeeper at Kersh Insurance in Ottawa, Ohio.  She also was a farmwife and helped on the family farm. 

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R COOP opens for the season this weekend, according to Jane Shaw.

The seasonal store, featuring old, new and repurposed decorative items for inside and out, is located two miles north of Bluffton at 2168 Road R, Pandora.

This weekend's hours are Friday, May 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The shop will be open Fridays, 10 to 5 and Saturdays, 10-1 and by appointments.
Check out R Coop on FB for more details.

CLICK HERE to visit its Facebook page.

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