The 2014 Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 7-9 is here. This is the 10th year for the sale that stretches across Ohio and touches the Icon viewing area big time.
The Ada community alone has 34 garage sales. For locations of those 34 sales, open the printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story.
• One attachment is a map of Ada and of Liberty Township. It shows registered garage sale locations.
While the normal average July temperature is 72.8 degrees, this year’s average temperature was a cool 68.7 degrees.
July 2014 precipitation totaled 2.99 inches with the normal July average precipitation at 3.85 inches.
The high reading of the month was 88 on July 22 and the low was 48 on July 29. The accompanying chart lists the daily weather summaries, provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
This is part of a series of stories featuring local organizations that received Bluffton, Beaverdam, United Way funding.
Funds received from the United Way of Bluffton, Beaverdam and Richland Township allow the American Red Cross/Allen County Chapter to respond to everyday emergencies and provide vital and needed services in the community.
Icon viewers are invited to join forces with communities nationwide for the 31st annual National Night Out (NNO) crime and drug prevention event. Bluffton observes the event on Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Sergeant Matt Oglesbee of the Bluffton Police Department is the local coordinator.
This is the first time for the Bluffton and Pandora police departments to participate in the event.
Ralf Bronnenmeier was a very personable, humble and down-to-earth person.
That’s how Rev. David Ross described Ralf to over 320 persons who attended a memorial service for the deceased Grob Systems CEO. The service was in the late afternoon of July 31 in St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Bluffton. The timing enabled many Grob employees to attend.
The Icon understands that Bronnemeier’s remains will be flown to Germany. The Bluffton memorial service was a way for Bluffton persons to pay their respects.
Explore Bluffton, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce visitors' guide to our community, is now in a flipbook form.
VIEW THE ELECTRONIC VERSION AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.
The 46-page visitors' guide was released in print form this spring. Its print form is aviailable free from any chamber member, or the Bluffton chamber office. Printed copies are distributed to area hotels, area county visitors' bureaus, all Bluffton University parents who visit campus and to groups who meet in Bluffton.