Why go out of town when everything you need for Christmas can be found in Bluffton?
Each year the Icon canvasses Main Street businesses to find Bluffton-made products, or products with a Bluffton label. This year’s list comes very affordably priced and includes items for persons with a wide variety of interests.
Here’s our list, as we walked up and down Main Street – please forgive us if we’ve omitted something.
The annual Texas Roadhouse Restaurant holiday fundraiser is now underway at BFR Sports and Fitness, according to Carole Ennekiing, BRF director.
Gift Cards with values of $15, $25 and $50 are on hand in limited supply; large orders can be pre-paid and picked up at the Bluffton facility. The cards may be used at any Texas Roadhouse restaurant in the United States.
BFR receives 10% of the total value of sales. Cards will be available through the end of December. Contact BFR by calling 419-358-4150 for more information.
Thanks for an expanded Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce residential lighting contest, more residential lights are displayed and more winners are rewarded.
Five new lighting categories were added to the residential contest this year to encourage residents to really make Bluffton a blaze of lights.
Winners were announced this week by the chamber. Winners receive Bluffton chamber gift certificates. WATCH THE ICON FOR PHOTOS OF ALL THE WINNERS.
NOTICE: AT NOON THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS.
The Swiss Community Historical Society is celebrating the Christmas season by hosting its annual holiday open house, “Christmas at the Homestead,” on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1 to 7 p.m.
The public is invited to tour the decorated house while snacking on homemade treats and listening to songs of the season.
The year is fast drawing to a close, but the Internal Revenue Service wants taxpayers to know that they still have time to take action for the 2013 tax year. The IRS offers eight year-end tax moves and three additional tips that will help make things a bit easier come tax return filing season early next year.
