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The Bluffton Lions Club award six senior graduates $500 scholarships each for this year. 

Proceeds from the “Shopping Spree” and donations provided for these scholarships. 

In the photo members of the scholarship committee and the winners.  From left to right,Lions Barbara Plaugher, Colleen Lazar, John Rich, Ron Lora and Jo Croft.  Lions Jesse Blackburn and Kyle Leatherman also served on the committee. 

Winners are Kendra Tuttle, Cory-Rawson; Mariah Burkholder, Cory-Rawson; Mackenzie Swary,Pandora-Gilboa; and Shea Watkins,Pandora-Gilboa. 

Don Hurless, 87,  died at 12:18 p.m., Monday, June 15, 2015, at his residence.

Don was born June 22, 1927. in Lima to Truman and Leota (Rockwell) Hurless who preceded him in death. On Jan. 11, 1959, he married Carolyn Klaserner who preceded him in death on Feb. 13, 1987.

Don is survived by cousins David Custer (Oklahoma) and Dona Mathwig (Lima, Ohio), good friends, Joyce and Earl Lhamon, Richard Patterson, a host of former piano students and fellow musicians. 

Everything you need to know about the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA) is available on the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce website www.explorebluffton.com.

All events are open to the public. The information on the chamber site includes an eight-page list of events.

The chamber encourages Icon viewers to share this information with others who may be interested in attending several of the activities.

Rudi Steiner, a 1961 Bluffton High School graduate, may well deserve a master’s degree in Bluffton automotive science 1945-1961. During this period he watched who drove what and sometimes, why. Here’s a summary of the Bluffton’s chrome and fin vehicle age from one who observed it first hand. This column is reprinted from "Bluffton, A Good Place to Miss."

Story and photos by Amy Eddings of Ada Icon

The follow story is from the Ada Icon. The flooding stories from Bluffton Icon are also shared on Ada Icon.

Flooding on the western grounds of Ohio Northern University has been so severe, Ada village officials have had to bring in two pumps from Cleveland to help drain the area.

Antique cars, classic cars, trucks, tractors, golf carts, fire engines, motorcycles and Cushman each have one thing in common: Wheels.

And that word will be celebrated in Bluffton on Friday, June 19, as the Bluffton Lions Club brings the 48th annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels cruise-in to Main Street.

This year's show commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Dixie Highway. Main Street Bluffton was once part of that highway that spread from Canada to Florida.

Here’s the schedule:

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