Bluffton cyclist Everett Collier takes lots of bike rides around the block, and this summer that block extends for 3,600 miles.
Collier will participate in the 7th annual Fuller Center Bike Adventure. It’s a bike ride from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Astoria, Oregon. The ride starts June 5 and finishes on Aug. 10 – with several stops along the way where bikers will assist in building projects with Fuller Center covenant partners.
As of the of March Collier had raised over $6,000 for his efforts in the trip.
A series of “Music Together” classes for infants through age five are offered this spring by Laura Hartzler. Classes are held weekly for eight weeks beginning April 7 in First Mennonite Church (no classes Memorial Day). Classes are held Mondays from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.
Parents interested in learning more about the classes may attend a free demonstration class at 3:30 p.m., Saturday, April 5, at the church. The demo class enables parents and anyone interested to experience a class and ask questions.
My influence in selecting Bluffton area/Little Riley headwaters as grounds for re-introduction of beavers having now been exposed, I feel comfortable in letting The Icon announce the choice for a northeastern Ohio location, the one quadrant of the state for which a site had not been announced.
Apollo Career Center and KISS 939 invite the community to its second EGGcellent Adventure, Saturday, April 5. Activities for the entire family begin at 7 a.m., culminating with a hunt for 20,000-eggs on the front lawn of the Career Center at 10 a.m.
A pancake breakfast will be served from 7-11 a.m., including all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage and lemonade. Ticket prices are: adults: $5, and kids under 10, $3. Other food items available include shredded pork, hot dogs, chips, pop, coffee, water and hot chocolate.
Local tempuratures were all over the map in March, as shown by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. Check March's highs, lows and precipitation in the attachment to this story.
