By Liz Gordon-Hancock
Bluffton Farmers Market is the place to be on Saturday mornings in town. According to the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, our town "boasts the best farmers market in northwest Ohio."
In celebration of our small but mighty farmers market, the Icon will be featuring a market vendor each week over the course of the summer.
Marty Wessler chats with Bluffton's Wessler Engineering staff, Benjamin Schroeder, Austin Wurm and Ryan Brauen. The firm held an open house on Thursday in its new location at 80 State Route 103. Marty Wessler is the company's CEO. Brauen is senior project manager of the Bluffton office. Wessler Engineering is headquartered in Indianapolis.
The following lane changes are planned next week on Interstate 75 as it passes around Findlay.
Interstate 75 northbound between the county Road 313 overpass and U.S. 68/state Route 15 will be shifted into a contraflow pattern overnight Tuesday, July 23, into the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 24.
When the shift is complete, two 11-foot lanes of northbound traffic will travel on the southbound side of highway in that area, next to the two lanes of southbound traffic, to allow construction activities to begin on the northbound side of the highway.
Blanchard Valley Medical Practices welcomes Joshua Ebel, MD to the team at Blanchard Valley Urology Associates. Dr. Ebel offers a variety of both surgical and non-surgical treatments for disorders of the male and female urinary tract.
Dr. Ebel completed undergraduate studies at Miami University (Oxford, OH) before pursuing his medical degree, surgical internship, and urology residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital (Columbus, OH).
Bluffton Public Library hosts the ONU Healthwise Mobile Health Clinic on Friday, July 26 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The clinic offers free screenings for blood pressure, osteoporosis, and blood sugar and cholesterol, but please note, you must fast from 12 hours to do blood sugar and cholesterol screenings.
The Mobile clinic bus will be parked outside the library.
Kevin Gratz said he never gets the chance to produce a Christmas show at Christmas. So, he’s doing one in August.
“Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas” billed as a funny, poignant collection of stories, songs, and vignettes by Robert Fulghum, is the biennial Dinner Theatre presented by the Ebenezer Drama Ensemble in the Crossroads Ministry Center, 8905 Columbus Grove Road, Bluffton.
Performances are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9, 10, 11.
Tickets are $10 and include dinner at 6 p.m. and the show at 7 p.m. each evening.
