Bluffton Main Street ghosts reappear on Friday, June 15.
Those shadowy figures grew up on leaded gasoline, have 8-V engines under their hoods and ride on white-wall tires. They arrive in a variety of bright colors and don’t have FM radios.
Some have strange names like: Plymouth, Studebaker, Mercury, Edsel, VW Bug, Woody, Oldsmobile, Desoto and Packard.
Over 200 of them return to Bluffton for the 51st Bluffton Festival of Wheels cruise-in, sponsored by the Bluffton Lions.
An auction including a 40-plus year collection of antiques is scheduled at 113 E. Kibler St., Bluffton, starting at 4 p.m., Thursday, June 21, according to Chet Straley of Straley Realty and Auctioneers.
The auction includes antique furniture and gold jewelry, furniture and household items, appliances, toys, collectibles and primitives, jewelry and garage items and tools.
An attachment at the bottom of this story reveals more of the auction information.
The Pandora United Methodist Church will be hosting a free community meal on Wednesday, June 27, from 5:30-7 p.m. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E. Washington St. The meal this month is provided by the mission committee. The menu is hamburger sandwich, baked potato bar, mixed fruit, dessert and beverage.
Five seniors were awarded scholarships by the Bluffton Lions Club this year. Those students attending the noon meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club are shown left to right:
Nathan Zuercher from Cory-Rawson High School; Karis Wilson, Sydney Hoff and Christian Groman from Bluffton High School. Chase Huffman from the Pandora-Gilboa School was not present at this meeting.
The Pandora-Bluffton area experienced nearly 2.5 inches of rain from Friday to Monday, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. The heaviest day of rain was Saturday with 1.47 inches was reported.
Note: America in Bloom judges will visit Bluffton July 19-20. To help viewers understand the Bloom judging process, each week on the Icon the Bluffton in Bloom board will describe one of the "Bloom" categories. Questions can be emailed to [email protected].
Two judges from America in Bloom will visit Bluffton on July 19-20 to evaluate our town. They will judge Bluffton on several categories.
