This feature expands the Icons to seven-day continual community coverage by bridging the gap with community information from Saturday through Monday morning.
"Weekend" provides information happening in both Bluffton and Ada each weekend and for the coming week.
Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn Co. is throwing a birthday party on Saturday and you are invited.
According to Pete Suter, its Shirley's biggest party of the year. It's a Shirley birthday celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Shirley's, 117 S. Main St., Bluffton.
"And 100 percent of all sales – every dollar spent – goes to the Lima Junior Service League to provide books and reading programs for kids in Lima and Allen County," he said.
Bluffton's mosquito patrol launches the 2016 season on Wednesday evening, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
"Now that mosquito activity has been observed in various places throughout the village, the service separtment will begin spraying for mosquitos on Wednesday, June 8," he told The Icon.
Mehaffie said that the spraying will tbegin around dusk on Wednesdays as necessary with Thursdays being the alternate day if weather does not permit the spraying.
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra director says, "The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers."
That's what Rachael Lewis, Bluffton school strings teacher is doing this summer - developing future audiences and performers.
She's offering a free summer springs program to Bluffton musicians, as she has for many summers.
The program meets on Wednesdays and is for students wishing to keep up their musical skills in the summer. The strings meet in the elementary strings room.
