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For a number of years, First National Bank has been actively involved in providing financial education to youth in area schools.

Students are taught the importance of saving, the differences between wants and needs, and about understanding the value of money. First National reached out to over 400 students this spring in various classrooms.

Another Big Lemonade Stand will be held on the lawn of the Bluffton Presbyterian Church at the intersection of Main and Cherry Streets on Friday, June 15, during the Festival of Wheels.

BFR will host an Olympic Sport Camp on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 25-27 from 9 a.m. to 12:30p.m.

"We are going to get first through sixth graders ready for the Olympics by playing many Olympic sports," said Kelly Honse of BFR.

Richland Manor, 7400 Swaney Road, a Trilogy Health Services Community and a Bluffton, provider of senior health and living services officially kicked off its annual company-wide Independence from Hunger food drive.

The campus business office is accepting non-perishable food items and monetary donations now through to July 3. Donors will be entered for a chance to win a $ 50 gift card to their choice of restaurant or, in the case of an organization, winning a catered in lunch for all employees.

Cruise route

White wall tires as wide as a man's tie...8-V engines...art deco hood ornaments. Oh, and names that no longer are in the contemporary vehicle vernacular. Names like Plymouth, Edsel, Model T, Kaiser, Hudson, Studenbaker.

All this comes to Main Street Bluffton on Friday. It's the Bluffton Lions present the 45th Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-In..

The event takes place in downtown Bluffton from 2 to 8 p.m. Jeff Houston, 1950s DJ will play music from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Bluffton Public Library will be closed from Monday, July 2, to Saturday, July 7, in observance of the Independence Day holiday. The bookdrop will also remain closed during that week.

Both the library and the bookdrop will reopen to the public at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, July 9. Due to state funding cuts that exceed $75,000 per year, the library's board of trustees has approved closing additional days around the holidays to reduce expenses and to avoid reducing regular hours during the year.

Stratton Greenhouses, 9915, Lincoln Highway, Bluffton is in the midst of a "BOGO sale."

That means that when you buy one (wave petunias, iron grower basket, or hydrangeas) you get one free at the Greenhouse.

That also means when you buy one (wave petunias, quart perennials, or 5-inch specialty plants) uptown Bluffton - corner of College and Triplett Drive, you get one free.

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