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The Bluffton-Pandora Rotary Club seeks sponsors for its 2011 Freedom Fest. The event will be held at the Bluffton University football stadium in conjunction with the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life on Friday evening, June 24.

The Fest' includes fun events, food, musical entertainment, game books inflatable, live duck races and similar events. A fireworks display will take place at dusk.

This year's event is held during the Bluffton Sesquicentennial celebration.

The tickets for the Sesquicentennial Ball are on sale at the Bluffton Centre, for $10 each. The event will take place Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m.

"Music, dance, and refreshments, and the gaily dressed will welcome your attendance," said Beverly Amstutz, chair of the sesquicentennial planning committee.

It's not your usual Ohio license plate. What's different about it? It's on a motorcycle. The Icon spotted this at the Bluffton Hospital.

It's an ambitious schedule this week at the Bluffton Hospital construction site. Here's a list of projects on the schedule:

Site work scheduled weather permitting:
Fascia panel on emergency department canopy
Forming for sidewalk near boiler room
Forming of steps near new stair tower
Glass in new stair tower
Roofing of corridor to second floor and breezeway at back
Stucco at eyebrowFinish glass at second floor
Level sub graders at back drive area

Calling all girls ages 5-10 - you could be Bluffton's Little Miss Sesquicentennial! In conjunction with the Sesquicentennial festivities to be held this year, the Bluffton Public Library is hosting a Little Miss Sesquicentennial Pageant on Thursday, June 23.

Registration begins at 6 p.m. and the pageant will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. in the Richland Room of the library.

Girls ages 5-7 are eligible to become Little Miss Junior Sesquicentennial, while ages 8-10 will compete to become Little Miss Sesquicentennial.

The Motter sisters had an afternoon of fishing with dad on Sunday.

Bluffton Community's Sportmen's Club stocked the Buckeye with lots of trout, but on Sunday the fish just weren't biting.

Sunday's trout derby did have some winners, however, Danny Pierce of McComb was winner of the 50/50 drawing. He went back to Hancock County with $757.50 in his billfold. The Sportsmen's Club took an equal amount for its future stocking projects.

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