Check out the flyer listing sales items at bottom of this story - Bluffton Downtown Merchants invite Icon viewers to a downtown Christmas open house Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1 and 2.
Each participating business has an assortment of specials and discount items.
See the flyer in the attachments at the bottom of this story for specific sale events. The flyer was mailed to postal patrons in the Bluffton area this week.
Scott Roger Born, 54, died at his Bluffton residence on Oct. 28, 2019. The son of Nancy and (the late) Don Fultz of Bluffton, and Roger and Phyllis Born of Circleville, Ohio, Scott was born June 7, 1965, in Lima, Ohio.
Scott was a 1983 graduate of Bluffton High School, and earned, with honors, an Associate's Degree in Mechanical Design Engineering from Lima Technical College. Scott had most recently been employed by Accubuilt in Lima.
Bluffton High School boys’ soccer team travels to Sandusky today (Wednesday, Oct. 30) for a 7 p.m. Division III regional semi-final round game versus Fairview Park.
The game is played at Sandusky High School’s football stadium, Strobel Field and Cedar Point Stadium, 75 Orlando Pace Drive, Sandusky. (The game was originally set for Sandusky Perkins, but was changed to Sandusky HS.)
Tickets at the gate are $8.
A BHS spirit bus leaves Bluffton at 5 p.m. tonight.
Just a reminder that the village of Bluffton trick-or-treat is still set for 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31.
• Bluffton Family Recreation will accept Halloweeners from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
• Members of Bluffton University’s Ohio Collegiate Music Education Association and Bluffton Education Association are inviting community members and trick-or-treaters to Mosiman Hall from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Classrooms will be decorated for the Halloween holiday and treats will be handed out.
Bulb forcing is the topic of the 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 5, meeting of the Bluffton and Pandora Area Gardeners. This hands-on demonstration will be led by Dr. Richard Deerhake, Master Gardener Volunteer, and includes planting your own bulbs to take home. Participants have the choice of either hyacinth, tulips, or daffodil bulbs, and the cost is $12. The fee covers bulbs (10-12), special bulb potting soil and handouts.
Jeanna Haggard, assistant professor of food and nutrition, will present the Colloquium, “Apprentice at Chef and the Farmer,” at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
During the presentation, Haggard will share about her apprenticeship with celebrity chef Vivian Howard, owner of Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, N.C., and star of the PBS show “A Chef’s Life.”
Mortimer Brewster (Adam Shanaman ’22, right) reassures his brother, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt (Eric Lehman ’22), that “the country is squarely behind you.”
The scene is from a practice of Bluffton University’s fall play “Arsenic and Old Lace.”
The 1940s dark comedy centers around Brewster, whose charming and charitable aunts have an unusual ministry – helping lonely boarders to their heavenly rest by serving poisoned elderberry wine.
Scott Roger Born, 54, died on Oct. 28, 2019, at his residence. Memorial services will begin at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, at English Lutheran Church in Bluffton.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until time of the service at the church. Arrangements have been entrusted with Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
