One of the fun parts of homecoming week in Bluffton is theme dress up day. Here’s the dress up themes this week at Bluffton High School.
Monday – Decades (pick your favorite and dress the part)
Tuesday – DC vs. Marvel comics
Wednesday – Hollywood
Thursday – Under the Sea
Friday – Pirate day
Groups are still invited to participate in the Friday homecoming parade. The parade forms at the Centre at 5 p.m. and passes down Main Street to Harmon Field at 5:30 p.m.
Transition Bluffton will host a presentation on invasive plant species at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at the Bluffton town hall, 154 N. Main St.
Botanist Bob Antibus will talk and take questions about invasive plants in northwest Ohio. The event is free and open to the public.
Invasive plants are non-native species that can threaten our natural resources. Problems caused by invasive plants include crowding out of native Ohio plants, loss of suitable foods for area wildlife, and less plant diversity.
Bluffton High School’s post-prom committee will hold a designer purse raffle on Saturday, Nov. 4, in the middle school cafetorium.
Registration with sandwiches, dips and desserts starts at 5:30 p.m. The reverse raffle is at 7 p.m.
The evening will have games, gift baskets, a 50/50 drawing and other prizes.
Tickets are $35, which includes food. Tickets are available at Bluffton High School and middle school offices. Tickets are also available from Erinn Prater, Teri Steinmetz and at Greg’s Pharmacy.
Table for six or 12 persons are available for $10.
The next performance on the Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series is Lucas and Sarah of the Antivillains.
Their performance is from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 22, in the third floor of the town hall.
The performers are described this way: Sarah is a soulful singer-songwriter from Toledo who uses themes of storytelling, space travel, first loves, and family tragedy.
Dennis Morrison’s e-mail address defines his history hobby: [email protected].
He will share his adventures from over 25 years of metal detecting and probe searches during a 9:45 a.m. to noon presentation Saturday, Sept. 16, at Book ReViews, 123 S. Main St., Bluffton, according to Dr. Christina Walton, store manager.
Each spring and fall Morrison explored Civil War campsites that cover between 3,000 and 5,000 acres.
FROM ADA ICON - Bluffton’s annual Fall Festival is next Saturday, Sept. 23 – and The Icon will provide lots of details about it soon.
In the meantime, Saturday, Sept. 16, is Ada’s 32nd annual Harvest and Herb Festival. Sponsored by the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, it takes place in downtown Ada.
This year’s festival is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As in past year’s, it will fill Ada’s Main Street from Highland to College. Main Street will be closed at State Route 235 all the way to State Route 81.
The festival has over 120 vendors already signed up.
