Looks like another fun weekend with plenty of activities planned in Bluffton.
Here's a capsule of events:
Friday
Bluffton Family Recreation will hold a Harlan’s chicken barbecue from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Friday, in the BFR parking lot.
The barbecue is a fundraiser for the BFR turf project for the gym and arena. Tickets are $10 each. Each meal includes one-half chicken, potato salad, green beans and a roll.
This weekend is garage sale heaven. The 2015 Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale offers 26 garage sales in the Village of Ada and the surrounding countryside.
The Icon provides maps and addresses of the 26 sales in attachments below.
The printer-friendly attachments include:
• Two lists of garage sale addresses
• Map of Village of Ada pinpointing garage sale locations
• Map of rural Ada pinpointing garage sale locations
As generation of Bluffton residents watched without acting, over the decades the Shannon Cemetery fell into disrepair.
Tombstones were broken. Several disappeared. Others were tossed into the creek bank while fallen trees knocked over additional stones. Well-meaning persons apparently replaced some stones in wrong locations.
Efforts to fix what damage was done over those decades began a few years ago as Dick Boehr took the project on. His cemetery proposal has previously been posted in the Icon.
Blanchard River Watershed Partnership receives a $29,930 grant for “Sediment and Phosphorus Reduction in the Middle Riley Creek watershed.”
The Great Lakes Commission has awarded the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership (BRWP) a $29,930 Great Lakes Basin Funding grant for sediment and phosphorus reduction in the Middle Riley Creek watershed.
Since most of the land use in the Middle Riley Creek watershed (72.6%) is for growing crops, the Best Management Practices (BMPs) will be used on fields to prevent the loss of phosphorus and soil from the fields.
