August 2022

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Celtic legend dies at 88, leaving behind great hoops legacy of winning and intangibles from celticsblog.com

By Professor Parquet a.k.a. Cort Reynolds

Celtic legend Bill Russell is arguably the most valuable player ever in NBA history, and perhaps even in all of team sports.

He died Sunday at age 88 following the deaths of Celtic legend teammates Tom Heinsohn, John Havlicek and Sam Jones in recent years. Only the almost 94 year old Bob Cousy has outlived them all.

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Here’s an accounting of the Bluffton EMS volunteer crew’s July 2022 calls for service, provided by Chief Jan Basinger:

37 Medical

7 Transports

1 Motor vehicle assistance

6 Fire calls

1 Mutual aid vehicle

1 Mutual aid medical

 

53 TOTAL CALLS

 

39 Patients transported

 

438 total to date for 2022

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School age and pre-k kids at the Bluffton Child Development Center, 325 County Line Rd., will be having a car wash and lemonade stand:

  • 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Tuesday August 2

Proceeds will go towards the kids' big end of the summer party.

The center accepts children ages six weeks old until they are twelve years of age. Classes:

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Like it or not, August is here and back to school preparations have begun. This upcoming weekend, the State of Ohio has a sales tax holiday on selected items related to school:

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At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 2, you can join local garden club members to learn about tomatoes from Master Gardener Stewart Coats of Hardin County. 

Coats will talk about starting, growing, soil conditions and disease control of tomatoes. Last year, Mr. Coats raised 1,600 pounds of produce for donation, and aims to beat that amount this year. Along with tomatoes, he grows onions, cucumbers, squash and more for donation, making him a great resource for anyone who has questions about growing those summer veggies.

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By Robert McCool

If you have read Tony Hillerman you know the legends and folktales about immortal beings living in the Sacred Mountains that surround the Dine'tah (Navajo reservation). Those same mountains protected the parched desert that is now the Dine'tah when the apocalypse drowned most of the world with the “Big Water.” And, after the Energy Wars there wasn't enough fuel to maintain the lifestyle we enjoy now. The world lay fallow and empty without an apology from anyone. These are dystopian tales.

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