Events

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The second annual Ride to Remember bicycle ride will take place on Saturday, July 16, in Bluffton, Ohio.
 
The bicycle event offers routes for families interested in biking together all the way to a 100-mile route for experienced riders.
 
Ride to Remember offers a 10-mile loop, a 64-mile loop with cutoffs for 13, 17, 24, 50 and 57 miles and a 100-mile course.
 

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Here are area county fair dates for 2016:
• June 20-25 - Putnam, Ottawa
• July 27-Aug. 7 - Ohio State Fair, Columbus
• Aug. 19-27 - Allen, Lima
• Aug. 31- Sept. 5 - Van Wert, Van Wert
• Aug. 31- Sept. 5 - Hancock, Findlay
• Sept. 6-11 - Hardin, Kenton

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SHANNON Service Club, Bluffton, announced dates of its 2016 garage sale during the Friday Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

Duane Bollenbacher of the club said that the community-wide garage sale will be Friday and Saturday, Feb.26- 27, at the Centre.

Watch the Icon for more details.

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Book ReViews will host a book signing for Bluffton author, Scot Ciminillo, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 9, according to Dr. Christina Walton, store manager. 
 
Ciminillo has written three books. His most recent is, "In Thru the Ohio Wilderness: One Man’s (419) Walk," just released.

The book is non-fiction and centers on the author's exepriences of raising a son with Autism Spectrum Disability (ADS), while the author was a student at Bluffton University.

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The Ohio Northern University Department of Music will present pianist Lucia Unrau of the Bluffton University music department, and clarinetist Sandra Jackson of the Eastern Michigan music department, in recital at the ONU Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building on Monday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

With recent performances at the Interlochen Arts Camp and with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, Unrau was also a soloist with the Detroit Chamber Orchestra.

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Here's something for new year's eve. It's Bluffton's oldest annual tradition.

Click here for an Iconoclast View of this tradition.

Traditional new year's caroling/serenading of the two David Rothen hymns of pre-1840s will again be sung on Dec. 31, 2015, led by the Swiss Historical Society. 

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