With large clumps of garlic hanging from its rafters and others lined up on a wooden rack, the barn on the Little Riley Creek Farm is suggestive of an old European farmhouse kitchen decorated with garlic braids.
Amanda Wischmeyer, who with her husband, Jon Tuttle, owns the farm, said that they grow four different varieties of garlic: French Violet, Italian Lorz, Chesnok Red and a variety that was growing on the farm when they purchased it.
FROM ADA ICON - One of the Icon's favorite Ada Facebooks is Fine Touch Furniture and Upholstery. Like the song goes, the Garvers seem to put new tunes on old pianos. Only the pianos in this case are chairs and sofas and other furniture. The two top photos represent a before and after. The bottom photos show front and back of one of their recent projects.
Several new “Help Wanted” advertisements are now listed on Bluffton and Ada Icons.
These range from part-time to full-time openings and include:
• New Leaf Landscape and Garden Center
• Bluffton University
• Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio
• GROB Systems
• Mercy Health
• Machine operators through Patrick Staffing
• Bluffton law office
• Viva Maria Pizza and Pasta
• The Dough Hook
• Wendy’s Restaurant
• Blanchard Valley Heath Systems
• Ohio Northern University
• Ohio Means Jobs
Here's the Icon’s 5-Question Display Ad Contest. It's open to all viewers. The winner receives a 1-item, 14-inch Padrone’s pizza. In the case of a tie, a random drawing will determine the winner.
Here’s how to enter.
Open the "Display Ads” page on the Bluffton Icon. You'll find it on the black scroll bar under the Icon masthead.
Or, go to the displays ads located at the bottom of every inside Icon page. Each page includes the same group of ads.
Yesterday's announcement of Dunkin' Donuts moving into the former Burger King property at 499 State Route 103, Bluffton, received a tremendous response from Icon viewers.
After only 19 hours on Facebook, the story reached 35,190 people, had 280 likes, was shared 301 times and had comments from 108 viewers.
And, the numbers on this story continue to climb. It's the largest single story response in 2020 on the Bluffton Icon.
