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The Bluffton/Pandora Youth for Christ Campus Life will hold a chicken barbecue from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, prior to the Bluffton vs. Pandora-Gilboa football scrimmage. The barbecue is at the Arthur-Lugibihl Community Center in Pandora.

Tickets are $7 and includes chicken, green beans, potato and roll.

For tickets contact:

• Hannah Slechter 419-236-5281
• Or David Glick 567-204-9777
Dine In or Carry Out. Desserts and drinks will be available for purchase.

Richland Manor has always been known for having big-hearted staff members.The staff seems to always go above and beyond to help residents feel more at home.

One staff member, Flo, who is a Richland Manor nurse, goes to great lengths for the past 10 years by hosting a picnic at her home for current and former residents and their family members.

On June 11, she hosted her annual event and over 30 residents attended. Flo and many volunteers from Richland Manor made the picnic special for the guests by making spectacular dishes and desserts.

How do you get to Pandora from Bluffton? We need the quickest route so we can attend the 2013 Riley Creek Festival on Friday evening, Aug. 9.

The event include lots of family-oriented activities. These include an antique machinery display on Main Street, a farmers' market in the alley by Riley Creek Pharmacy, a raffle for NASCAR tickets and a YMCA kids' zone in the grass area off the town parking lot.

Other events includes free kids' carnival games in the United Methodist Church lawn, P-G band and P-G cheerleaders performing at the fire station at 6 p.m.

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Continuing a look at yearbook advertisements, here's one from the 1926 Bluffton College Ista. At Siefield's Bakery you could buy sandwich bread. The bakery was located in what is today The Food Store on South Main Street. The owner was Herb Siefield.

Bluffton's Farmers' Market is the popular place to be on Saturday mornings. Here's s view of the market through the frame of a bread shelf. Click here for a video.

A COMPLETE LIST OF GARAGE SALE LOCATIONS AND MAPS TO THE GARAGE SALES ARE IN ATTACHMENTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

It's a garage saler's dream weekend. The Lincoln Highway 2013 Buy-Way Yard Sale, stretching across Ohio and passing just south of Bluffton takes place Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 8-9-10.

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