On Friday and Saturday, July 12-13, the Bluffton Sardines will host the 2024 Western Aquatic League Champs meet, which has been likened to a circus due to the huge number of tents. The Sardines are also celebrating 50 years of serving swimmers ages 5-18 with instruction, training and competition. PHOTO by Jamie Nygaard.
The 51st Bluffton Craft Show has been scheduled in conjunction with the 2024 Bluffton Fall Festival on Saturday, September 28. This will be a juried show with “high quality handmade items.”
In recent weeks, a representative from IGS Energy has been visiting Bluffton residents with an offer to provide them with lower cost fixed electricity rates. If it were not for his second visit, I would not have realized that my participation in the Village aggregation program was incorrectly dropped.
The ONU Healthwise mobile health clinic is hosted by Bluffton Public LIbrary, 145 S. Main, on Wednesday, July 10 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Services include walk-in screenings for blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. Vaccines are not offered during these events.
On Saturday, July 13 at 3:00 p.m., the Beyond the Call of Duty “End of Watch Ride to Remember” will be arriving in Bluffton to honor fallen Bluffton Police Officer Dominic Francis (EOW March 31, 2022).
The rolling memorial will be arriving at the Bluffton Dairy Freeze, 595 S Main St, around 3:00 p.m. and leaving around 4:30 p.m. with a police escort through downtown Bluffton.
Beyond the Call of Duty and the End of Watch Ride to Remember is an organization out of Spokane Valley, WA that travels the country with their rolling memorial every other summer to honor the officers that were killed in the line of duty in the previous two years.
Bill Herr taught high school mathematics and science for 32 years. After retiring from teaching, he began a nursing home ministry, first as a volunteer and then as a nursing home chaplain. He has written columns for the Icon on Bluffton sports history and on being a chaplain.
