March 2023

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The March 10 meeting of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce demonstrated the opportunity to network not just with the folks sitting at your table, but to also hear from and reach out to all forty or fifty people in attendance.

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The Cuts at Bluffton, a campus hair salon/barbershop for all hair types, is open with styles provided by barbers and stylists from Fresh N Faded in Lima.

Services include cuts, shampooing, line ups, color, conditioning treatments, two-strand twists and retwists, braids and more.

Learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJC5u3IMcg8

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March 15 home opener; game one starts at 3:30 p.m.

By Ethan Stearns, sports information assistant
www.blufftonbeavers.com

AUBURNDALE, Fla.--The Bluffton University softball team finished up its slate of matchups in Florida on Friday, March 10, 2023, coming up short against Edgewood College and Benedictine University out of Illinois. Bluffton closed the week 5-5 as the Beavers prepare to head north.

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Library fundraiser also includes silent auction

The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library will hold a Spring Tea and Silent Auction at 6:00 p.m.on Thursday, April 27 at the library, 145 S. Main.  

Tickets are $15 and will go on sale at the library on March 15. The event includes a formal tea, a light meal. The number of tickets is limited, so please get your tickets early.

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Pastor Matt Nowak will lead the Wednesday evening Lenten Service at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, on March 15 at 7:00 p.m. 

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The Village of Bluffton is now accepting lifeguard applications for Summer
2023 at the Bluffton Community Pool, 205 Snider Rd.

Here's the pitch:

"In need of a tan? This is the perfect summer job for High School! We work around your schedule! Fun environment!

"Questions? Message the Bluffton Community Pool or Jennie Wilson! I will be posting Lifeguard Certification class information soon, as classes around the area are beginning."

The application deadline is 4:00 p.m. on April 22, 2023.

If you have questions, please message the Bluffton Pool or Jennie Wilson via Facebook.

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Just down the road a piece, the Icon also provides news for the Village of Ada via www.AdaIcon.com. Here's this week's headline swap:

Community provides feedback on Ada Schools sports conference

Bulldogs McClain, Bulerin compete at OHSAA wrestling meet

Another opening at Freed Center: International Play Festival

Becky Neville honored by Rotary International

15,000+ meals packaged by ONU students for disaster relief

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Letter to the Icon by Marc D. Kogan

Scouting is approaching its 116th anniversary since our founding in England in 1907 and this past February 8 was the 113th birthday of the Boy Scouts of America. The founder of Scouting, Lord Baden Powell, called Scouting a game with a purpose.   

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By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

If this doesn’t frighten you, nothing will. The Village of Bluffton (and probably many, many other municipalities), used DDT for over 20 years to kill mosquitoes. Here’s the account from the May 28, 1953, Bluffton News.

Bluffton’s annual war on mosquitoes was launched this week under the direction of Mayor Wilbur A. Howe, as work got underway on a control program, which has proved extremely successful over the last two decades.

Frequent rainfall, which has kept streams moving, preventing the accumulation of pools of stagnant water, has made control spraying unnecessary until this week, the mayor said.

During the normal summer of treatment of Bluffton’s streams, parts of quarries, the village dump, etc., the control required about 50 gallons of DDT and approximately 1,000 gallons of oil.

Click HERE for the rest of the story.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Desmond Gist (Detroit, Mich./Trenton) capped off his outstanding indoor track and field season with a 15th place finish in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division III nationals on Friday, March 10, 2023. Gist and Head Coach Ben Markison made the trip to Birmingam, Ala., and it marked the second straight national meet for Gist who placed 14th in the 110 meter outdoor hurdles last May.

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