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Weather observations by Guy Verhoff

The attached weather report for July 1-25 comes from our observer in Pandora, where daily maximum temperatures ranged from 73 to 93 and minimums ranged from 55 to 72.

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National Night Out is coming up on Tuesday, August 2. To volunteer, contact Lt. Matt Oglesbee at [email protected]. Seen here at 2021 celebrations are Bluffton Police Chief Ryan Burholder, Officer Lonny Kent and Lieutenant Oglesbee.

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UPDATE: Our access to Facebook has been restored and your viewer access may in fact not have been interrupted. However, we'll be updating a few posts that have been lost in the process.

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The Bluffton Icon's Facebook page service has been interrupted on the morning of July 26. Our switch to the new Pages experience was bumpy, so we opted to switch back to the Classic view.

The result for now is no Bluffton Icon Facebook page. We'll keep you posted.

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By Andy Chappell-Dick

The Bluffton Council meeting of July 26 had a light agenda but the gallery was packed when the meeting commenced at 7:00 p.m. A robust public call to account for a pressing matter of local import? Not tonight. Rather, most were on hand as friends and family of Austin Probst, who was to be sworn in to the Bluffton Police Department as a part-time patrol officer.

Council packet attachment

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Excuse us if we exaggerate a bit about "A to Z." However there are eleven activies, from Bingo to Western Dancing, in August at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main.

Bingo - Monday, Aug. 8 at 2:30 p.m. sponsored by MHCO, Monday, Aug. 15 at 2:30 p.m. with HCS management

Bridge  - Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.          

Crafts - Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.

Dances  - Tuesdays at 3 p.m.

Dominos - Fridays at 9:30 a.m.

Dulcimers - Tuesdays at 1 p.m.

Exercise Class - Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m.

Euchre - Thursdays at 1 p.m.

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We received the following letter in response to Bill Herr's July 23 article on Bluffton rodeos.

My father Lester Neuenschwander (Niswander – as in Niswander’s Newsstand) and I were responsible for procuring and setting off the fireworks for the July 4th rodeo. We drove a van to the manufacturer near Dayton and returned with aerial bombs of various sizes and material to make ground displays. I remember a large field with a dozen or more very small, widely separated buildings; a way to minimize both injury and  loss of product if something accidentally ignited what was inside.

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