Due to the Monday, May 30, holiday, recycling and refuse pick up is one day late this week. That means that Friday customers will have their recycling and refuse picked up on Saturday, June 4, according to the village office.
The next time recycling and refuse pick up will be one day delayed will be the week of Fourth of July.
May was a wet one, but you already knew that. According to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, the normal average precipitation for May is 3.67 inches. May of 2011 recorded 7.42 inches of precipitation.
Otherwise, averages were near normal. The average May temperature was 61.9 degrees. The normal average is 60.2 degrees.
May's high temperature was 91 on May 31. The low was 37 on May 5. Of the 31 days in day rain was recorded on every day except for five.
Spraying will occur on May 31, June 2, June 7, and June 9, starting at dusk. Starting the week of June 13, spraying will be done on Wednesdays, weather permitting, according to village officials.
Summer official begins in Bluffton at 1 p.m. on Friday. That's when the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool opens.
Pool hours are 1 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. daily. The pool's telephone number is 419-358-6991.
Here are admission prices:
Daily adult admission $3
Single season pass (taxpayer) $80
Single season pass (non-taxpayer) $105
Family season pass (taxpayer) $130
Family season pass (non-taxpayer) $180
Single senior citizen pass $40
Couple senior citizen pass $75