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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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As a warm up to St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2023, the Icon is providing this printable coloring page. In myth, the leprechaun hides his pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In imagery, the rainbow symbolizes hope. The Cambridge Dictionary notes that the pot of gold is something sought but not likely to be found.

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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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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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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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