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The winners of this spring's Bluffton Center for Entrepreneur business plan competition will be announced during the Friday morning, June 8, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

The breakfast meeting is the in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall and is open to the public.

This month's breakfast is provided by Luke's of Bluffton with coffee from Common Grounds.

By Jake Dowling, Icon intern
Mennofolk is returning to Bluffton after several years of absence. It will include three stages of acoustic music over a span of two days according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, director of the event.

"It is definitely an awesome festival," she said. "These bands are really good and I don't know any other venue in northwest Ohio that can pull in bands like this."

Diller Medical, 902 N. Main St., Bluffton has a Fathers' Day special sale on lift chairs, according to Jim Diller.

Between now and Friday, June 22, all lift chairs are 30 percent off. Diller's has chairs in price ranges from $595 to $1,495. The sale price is 30 percent off those prices.

There is a choice of sizes and colors and Diller's has Medicare billing available.

Diller Medical phone number is 419-358-2761.

Two Bluffton University students are exploring possible future careers this summer with the help of $1,500 Discovery Grants awarded through the university.

Nnenna Onwukeme, a Bluffton junior majoring in business, is volunteering as a business and teacher's assistant at the new De Padua Learning Center in her home city of Jos, Nigeria. She is looking to learn the ins and outs of running a business, including start-up and daily management.

This is a test. Do you recall the letters on the license plate posted prior to this one?

Answer: BUXTONS.

This one is the second variation. You'll find both plates in Rockport.

Vera Burkholder

Lifelong Bluffton resident Vera Burkholder is the June resident of the month at Richland Manor.

She graduated from Bluffton High School and studied to be a teacher at Bluffton College. After graduating she taught 19 years as a first grade teacher at Allen East. She is a lifelong member of the Bluffton Missionary Church.

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