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BFR invites Icon readers to help it during a holiday fundraiser with Texas Roadhouse. Gift cards for meals at Texas Roadhouse are now on sale at BFR.

BFR receives 10 percent of each card sale. Persons may buy cards for buy-on at $15 and $25, pre-pay for $15, $25 or $50 options. To view a flyer with card options, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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Due to the snow, the three Bluffton school concerts scheduled for Monday, Dec. 13, have been rescheduled.

The afternoon all-elementary concert scheduled for 1:30 p.m. has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 20.

The two middle school concerts (one at 6 p.m. and the second at 7:30 p.m.) have been moved to Thursday, Dec. 16.

Lots of other holiday activities are going on this week. Here's a sampling

Blaze of Lights and The Gift of Giving

Both lights displays continue through Jan. 1.

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Trace of snow. That must mean it's December. Here's the high, low and precipitation recorded by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, for the first six days of the month

Date High Low Rain Snow

Dec. 1 31 23 0.03
Dec. 2 31 23 trace
Dec. 3 34 24
Dec. 4 31 26 trace
Dec. 5 31 20 0.01
Dec. 6 25 16 0.01

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FN 1922 - The Icon spotted this plate on Main Street. Is it the that "FN" was born?

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The work continues. Here's an update on projects underway this week at the Bluffton Hospital.

New Emergency Department

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A Bluffton quick guide. That's the name of the new three-fold full-color flier distributed over the weekend to Bluffton businesses from the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce.

The first run of the guide included a printing of 2,000 copies from Boehr Print. Those copies are now in nearly 50 Bluffton businesses all the way from the Interstate area to Main Street.

The guide in intended to help out-of-town visitors become acquainted with the community. It lists places to eat, places to stay, services available and things to do, and places to browse in Bluffton.

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