“New and improved” monthly cash mobs will continue in Bluffton in 2015, according to the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. The project is in cooperation with a downtown merchant’s planning committee.
Cash mob fans have two events this month – (thanks to lousy January weather, the first mob was moved to February).
The first cash mob is Thursday, Feb. 19, at The Black Lab. The second – delayed from January – is the following Thursday, Feb. 26, at The Dough Hook. After this there will be on cash mob per month.
The community is invited to join a playgroup at Bluffton Presbyterian Church, 112 N. Main St. Bluffton. The playgroup is for children ages 1-4 accompanied by a parent, grandparent or babysitter. The group will meet in the nursery at Bluffton Presbyterian Church every Monday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. February 23-May 25. Please enter through the side door. No registration is necessary--just come! If you have questions, you may call Jayne McGarrity (419-369-4216) or the church (419-358-5806).
How much salt goes on Bluffton’s streets each winter? What does it cost? And, what's this about beet juice? The Icon asked Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, these questions. Here’s his responses:
The salt used this winter season is leftover from last year. Near the end of the season last year, the Village of Bluffton still had a reserve amount of salt to purchase based on our contract and we were able to fill our salt storage bins to capacity at last season’s prices of $38 per delivered ton.
The Bluffton Senior Citizens Center collects Community Market and Great Scott receipts. The center receives 1 percent back on receipts. In 2014 the Center received $200 for its collection efforts.
If you shope on line, you can now give to the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center when you shop on Amazon. Go to www.smile.amazon.com/ch/34-1058372.
On Tuesday evening the Augsburger Road forest deer herd had supper on the corn stubble of Judy and Larry Diller's field. This scene, taken with a cell phone from Bentley Road is taken from the east. The Icon counted over 80 deer in the field.
