Families are invited to BFR for an afternoon of Halloween activities on Sunday, Oct. 24, from 2-4 p.m.The event is free and open to the public.
Activities will include crafts and game stations including "pin the arm on the skeleton," color sheets, cornhole/bean bag toss, pumpkin match game, and obstacle course.
The Bluffton Icon welcomes six new advertisers this month. The Icon now has 27 local businesses advertising their products and services.
"We are grateful for the support of viewers and advertisers," said Fred and Mary Steiner of The Icon.
Those advertisers recently joining The Icon include Jeanne's Kitchen on Vine Street. You'll notice the restaurant's menu listed on the classified-display ad page.
Also new is Jeff Laing's Born Again, LLC, general contractor business.
Bluffton scouts have a busy and active October, according to
Darrell Groman, Troop Asstistant Scoutmaster and Pack Webelos Leader.
Here are some of the activities planned:
Saturday Oct. 16: afternoon the Bluffton Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will be taking (unmarked) yellow bags around Bluffton with a flyer stuck inside for our "Scouting For Food" drive.
The Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., is having a half-price plant sale, now until the end of October.
"All plants are half off the marked price. It is a great time to get a nice house plant to clean the air in your house this winter," said Tonya Meyer of the Center.
On The first and third Thursdays of the month, the Senior Center is open until 7 p.m. because of community meals.
The second annual art auction and dinner to benefit the Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) will be held on Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Centre at Bluffton, 601 N. Main. Proceeds support the BCE mission of annually creating and retaining 30 local jobs. This is a major fundraiser for the BCE and raised $7,000 in 2009.
Tickets are still available for the next performance in the 2010-11 Bluffton University Artist Series, by Percussion Group Cincinnati at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The three-member group has awakened concert audiences to a wider world of music since 1979, using everything from amplified cactus needles, newspapers and garbage cans to the traditional sounds of drums, cymbals and bells from around the world.
