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Bluffton's Taste of Summer is here and you are invited

The first of three Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce Taste of Summer programs, open to the public, will take place from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, June 7, at Luke's, 133 N. Main St.

The purpose of these events is to bring people downtown in the summer for a fun evening. It is the chamber's first step in creating a larger summer program of events with the community in mind that promotes downtown businesses.

The winners of this spring's Bluffton Center for Entrepreneur business plan competition will be announced during the Friday morning, June 8, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

The breakfast meeting is the in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall and is open to the public.

This month's breakfast is provided by Luke's of Bluffton with coffee from Common Grounds.

It's summer and that means it's Vacation Bible School season. Here is the VBS schedule in the Icon viewership area. If your VBS is not on our list, contact us.

June 3-8
Ebenezer Mennonite VBS

8905 Grove Road
6:30-9 p.m.
Title: Sky: Everything is possible with God
More information: 419-358-8588, or [email protected]

A weed with artistic taste

Yes, it's a weed. And, yes, despite that it has artistic charm. You'll find lots of flowering weeds like this one in the Motter Metro Park on Columbus Grove Road.

Kay Amstutz

Kay L. Amstutz, 49, of Rawson, died Sunday, June 3, 2012 5:15 p.m. at the Bluffton Hospital. She was born in Bluffton on Jan. 9, 1963 to Phyllis (Pearson) Amstutz who survives at Rawson and the late James R. Amstutz.

She was a 1981 graduate of Cory-Rawson High School where she was an honors student. She attended the University of Northwestern Ohio to study computer programming. She also held a degree from Bluffton University in Accounting. She worked for the Blanchard Valley Health Assn .in the accounting department.

Icon viewers may now see the updates on the Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio Green House project. Updates are provided in the current issue of "The Visioneer."

Cabinets and kitchen counter tops have been installed in House B and the appliances will be installed soon. The stone work on both homes is nearly completed.

Painting has begun inside House A.

A copy is in the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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