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Here are 29 good reasons that Bluffton needs a stop light at Main Street and College. There are Bluffton elementary students on their way to field day at Harmon Field in mid-afternoon in Bluffton - with no stop light in sight.

Now let's tread water.

Sign-up for swim lessons at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool is now underway.

Swim session dates follow:
• First session, June 15-26
• Second session, July 6-17
• Third session, July 27-Aug. 7

Sessions are offered in ages groups from babies to age 5.

Lessons take place from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays and Friday are used as make-up days.

Swimming lesson costs are $30 for Bluffton taxpayers, $40 for persons who do not pay village income tax and $50 for private lessons. 

Here's the final honor roll of 2014-15 for Bluffton fourth and fifth graders: 

Fifth Grade

All A Honor Roll
SCOLES, SKYLER 
YOUNG, CARA 
PARKER, OLIVIA
PIMENTEL, ELEANOR
NICKEL, ELLIE
GALLANT, PEYTON 
SWARTZLANDER, LAUREN 
MITTENDORF, REAGAN 
LOVETT, KENNETH 

Fourth Grade

Trinity Lutheran School’s graduation will be held on Sunday, May 31, during the 10:30 a.m. service at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera.  Pre-service music will be by members of the graduating class. Wesley Below is the class speaker. The class members include Wesley Lane Below, James Steven John Miles, Amelia Grace Mitchell, Logan Nicholas Stuckey and Korey Lynn Strahm. The students in kindergarten through eighth grade will sing.

There will be a regular service at 8 a.m. The public is welcome and the church is handicapped accessible. 

Five members of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association turn 90 in June. Each receives a lifetime membership in the association presented during the Monday, June 8, monthly potluck.

The members are Wayne Shafer, Treva Shafer, Anne Buller, Catherine Bish and Geraldine Basinger DeMeo.

Several additional events take place at the center in June. Open the attachment at the bottom of this story to view the June center newsletter.

AEP meteorologists anticipate severe thunderstorms containing damaging winds the Icon readership area later today. Here's AEP's announcement:

A cold front in Illinois will move into I&M Power just as an upper-level disturbance (now over Missouri) arrives. Ample sunshine & humidity will generate moderate instability by afternoon as temperatures reach the low-mid 80s.

Expect a broken line of severe storms to organize over Indiana midday...then cross eastern I&M Power (Ft. Wayne, Muncie) early this afternoon.

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