the July Bluffton Senior Citizens newsletter is now available for Icon viewers to read. Open the attachment at the bottom of this story to view the newsletter.
The Bluffton Senior Citizens are traveling this summer and fall.
"Friday, Aug. 26 we visit Holmes County Amish including Smuckers, Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen for lunch, Heinie's Cheese Chalet, Coblenz Chocolate Company, and a Dinner Show at the Amish Door in Wilmot featuring "Cotton Patch Gospel" a Southern Blue Grass interpretation of the Life of Jesus," said Bob Painter of the Center.
Also on the list of tours is a trip to LaComedia Dinner Theatre to see "Church Basement Ladies, Second Helping" and the Freisinger's Chocolate Factory. The LaComedia Trip is on Sept. 1.
BFR is offering a Red Cross Babysitter Training Class on Friday, July 15, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
Youth ages 11 to 15 are welcome to participate in a one-day training clinic. It will cover topics of working with small children, safety concerns and basic first aid.
Kelly Honse, Red Cross instructor, will lead the clinic planned for 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at BFR. Cost for the training is $43 ($38 BFR member) and includes the clinic, snack, training notebook and CD-Rom and emergency kit. Contact BFR 419-358-4150 to register by July 11.
Lots of chrome, tail lights with large fins, white sidewalls and toss in some Model T Fords. It's coming Friday, June 24. It's Bluffton Lions Club's 44th annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-in.
All activities are held on Main Street and College Avenue, downtown
Sharon Garmatter of the Bluffton Relay for Life reports on some last-minute activities planned this weekend.
"We are still wanting cake donations for the cake walk. Persons may contact Tracy Steele at 419-358-0155," said Garmatter.
"We are trying something totally different this year ," she added. "We are having a rave on Friday night after the fireworks, approximately 11 p.m. (it may be later if the fireworks are delayed).
"This will be aimed at the teens-early 20s. This is a totally legal rave revved up with music, sugar and caffeine," she said.
