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The Bluffton Community Swimming Pool season is at its mid-point. Bluffton council okayed half-price season ticket sales to begin.

Those prices follow and are in effect until the pool closes for 2015. Pool hours are Monday through Friday from 1 to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. Single daily admission continues at $3.

Half price costs:
• Single season pass $40
• Family season pass $65

Two Bluffton council committee meetings are set for the next few weeks. Those meetings follow, with both meetings in the town hall:

• July 28 - Safety services, noon

• Aug. 3 - Street and alleys - discussion: Crossing on Main and College and policies and proceedures for vacating alleys, 7 p.m.

 

Mosquito spraying in Bluffton takes place on Wednesday evenings from 9 p.m. to approximately 1 a.m.

Spraying takes place unless it is raining or is extremely windy. If either of those conditions are present, spraying is moved to Thursday evening of that week.

Bluffton Community Swimming Pool will hold a summer pool party in cooperation with 93.9 Kiss FM on Friday, July 24.

Kiss FM will broadcast live from noon to 2 p.m. during the party. There will be promotional giveaways starting at noon. The pool will be open to the public from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on July 24. Regular admission prices.

Twenty days into July and the Pandora-Bluffton area has already experienced 6.64 inches of rain. All the that rain fell in a 13-day period from July 7 to July 19.

During that stretch Bluffton was without rain on only three days.

The heaviest rainfall was 2.92 inches on July 9.

Here’s the weather report (attachment at the bottom of this story) for the first 20 days of July from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

The Icon applauds Mayor Augsburger’s selection of members to the newly established Shannon Cemetery Commission.

All are members of the village of Bluffton, as this commission should be.

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