April is Community Banking Month and on Friday, April 29, Citizens National Bank will be highlighting local businesses with its annual gift basket giveaway and Community Shred Day. Refreshments will be served at each branch, including the 102 S. Main, Bluffton location.
Each CNB office is giving away a gift basket including local items from each of our branch communities. Anyone who visits a branch during the month of April may enter to win the Community gift baskets valued at more than $150 each.
At 7 p.m. on April 29, a cast of 29 students in grades 1-8 will take the stage with two professional actors in Prairie Fire Children's Theatre's original musical production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at Trinity Lutheran School, 105 Allen Street, Jenera.
Two professional actors, Sam and Emma, will take the roles of The Huntsman and The Evil Queen.
Greenhorn restaurant, 112 Vine St., will celebrate Earth Day with a set of river-themed songs from 2:30-4 p.m. on Saturday, April 23.
A $10 donation (pay what you can) is requested to support the work of the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership.
Performers will be Wendy Chappell-Dick and Phil Gratz, who have been playing music together for almost 30 years. They enjoy songs with meaningful lyrics and they also like to have fun, covering rock, country, and pop tunes from the 70s to present day.
The Icon's editor likes to keep an eye out for "Big Red" on drives between the Ada Icon beat and the Bluffton Icon beat. This week a setting sun treated her to this equine outline.
UPDATE: The mobile health clinic will be at Bluffton Public Library on Friday, April 29.
Have you ever driven past the Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main, and wondered why there is occasionally a big ONU bus parked outside? From 9:00-11:00 a.m. on the last Friday of the month, the Ohio Northern University Healthwise program provides a mobile health clinic with free health screenings.
The Icon stopped by to chat with the providers and to take a look inside the vehicle. We began with a cheeky question:
