AEP provided The Icon with the following weather update for July 19: A cold front will sink into northern Ohio this afternoon.
With a warm and humid air mass in place, the front will help focus
scattered strong thunderstorms. The thunderstorms will develop by early
afternoon in northern Ohio and move slowly southeast through the afternoon and evening.
AEP Ohio's Ohio Valley and Athens Districts are most likely to experience problems with winds gusting to 50 mph in the strongest storms.
Here's the seven-day report for July from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
Date High Low Rain
July 10 85 63
July 11 87 59
July 12 92 62
July 13 88 66
July 14 88 65 0.55
July 15 90 73 0.01
July 16 94 67
Apollo Career Center's board of education will act on legislation at its July 23 to place a tax levy on the Nov. 6 ballot. Voters in the Bluffton school district will have the levy on their ballot.
The entire July 23 board agenda is on an attachment at the bottom of this story.
A portion of the Apollo resolution follows:
RESOLUTION NO. 07-12-4
RESOLUTION DETERMINING TO PROCEED
WITH BOND ISSUES AND TAX LEVY.
Dr. Perry Bush says his new book is about several things.
How Lima, Ohio, saved its oil refinery from closure by British Petroleum in the 1990s is the story of a city's fight and survival against long odds, says the Bluffton University history professor and author of "Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won."
Pre-school children (ages 4-6) are encouraged to attend one or all of the
remaining BFR mini camps offered on Thursdays, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
The July 26 theme is Sports Sampler, and Aug. 2 will feature Fairy Tale Village.
Registration fee is $12 ($8 BFR member) per day and includes all camp
activities from 9-10:30am, plus snack and craft. Call BFR 419-358-4150 to register.
To help support operations of the BFR facility, tickets are available now
for several raffle items, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
Drawing for each will be held at BFR on Friday, July 27 at noon. The largest prize is a package of four Toledo Mudhens tickets for the Sunday, Aug. 5, game. Each ticket costs $5. Lariche Chevrolet donated this package for the raffle.
In addition, for $1 per ticket or six tickets for $5, several local businesses have donated items.
Items include:
o a $20 gift certificate to Luke's Pizza,
The British are coming...to BFR!
BFR Sports & Fitness will host the Challenger British Soccer Camp again
this July. Challenger Camps are offered across the nation to youth soccer players of all levels. The BFR camp will be held July 30 to Aug. 30 with morning and/or evening sessions available.
Children ages 4-6 years will meet 10:30 a.m.-noon or 6-8 p.m., children ages 6-16 will attend the morning session from 9 a.m.-noon or 5-8 p.m.
Full day pricing is available, as well, and includes attendance at both the morning and evening sessions.
Here is a photo taken of a tractor-trailer fire by Jeff Laing this morning at 5:25 a.m. at the Beaverdam Interstate 75 exit. The Icon does not have any other detail of the fire at this time.
James Crawfis of Beaverdam took one last visit to the former Beaverdam town hall three days prior to it being razed.
Here's what he told The Icon about the visit:
"These are some of the pictures I took (and one old one from the 1920s sometime). The picture with the stairs is from the opening of the very front door. My Dad (Gary) said the last time he was upstairs in the town hall was a good 40 years ago.
Peter Suter of Shannon Theatre announced that "Ice Age: Continental Drift" (PG) will be shown at the theatre from July 20-26.
Show times follow:
2D - Each evening at 7 PM with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30.
3D - Each evening at 9:30 PM with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 4 PM.
