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Is your generation service supplier the one you picked?

Posted by Staff on July 10, 2024 - 7:55am

By Paula Pyzik Scott

In recent weeks, a representative from IGS Energy has been visiting Bluffton residents with an offer to provide them with lower cost fixed electricity rates. If it were not for his second visit, I would not have realized that my participation in the Village aggregation program was incorrectly dropped.

My choice to participate in the aggregation program did not automatically transfer in December 2023 from Energy Harbor to Dynegy, the current provider for customers participating in the Village aggregation program. I received an AEP email in December indicating my generation service supplier was being canceled. My current bills do not show a supplier.

Amy Hoffman of Palmer Energy, the consulting company that selects the electricity supplier for Bluffton’s aggregation program, told the Icon that participation in the aggregation program is currently at 900 meters out of 1200 eligible customers, which is consistent with past levels.

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July 10 Mobile Health Clinic at BPL

Posted by Paula Scott on July 10, 2024 - 7:21am

The ONU Healthwise mobile health clinic is hosted by Bluffton Public LIbrary, 145 S. Main, on Wednesday, July 10 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Services include walk-in screenings for blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. Vaccines are not offered during these events.

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End of Watch memorial to visit Bluffton, July 13

Posted by Staff on July 10, 2024 - 7:16am

On Saturday, July 13 at 3:00 p.m., the Beyond the Call of Duty “End of Watch Ride to Remember” will be arriving in Bluffton to honor fallen Bluffton Police Officer Dominic Francis (EOW March 31, 2022). 

The rolling memorial will be arriving at the Bluffton Dairy Freeze, 595 S Main St, around 3:00 p.m. and leaving around 4:30 p.m. with a police escort through downtown Bluffton.

Beyond the Call of Duty and the End of Watch Ride to Remember is an organization out of Spokane Valley, WA that travels the country with their rolling memorial every other summer to honor the officers that were killed in the line of duty in the previous two years. 

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July 4: Classified ads update

Posted by Staff on July 9, 2024 - 11:05am

See our Classifieds page for ads and ad rates

Our newest classifieds 

EVENTS Free Pool Party at Bluffton Community Pool, July 19-20

HELP WANTED Special Event reporters

HELP WANTED Truck Driver at Diamond Manufacturing

HELP WANTED CPA firm seeks FT administrative assistant

HELP WANTED PT Custodian at First Mennonite

EVENTS Tai Chi demonstration on Vine St., July 13

ANNOUNCEMENT Winning Discovery Days ticket for June 2024

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Dementia and dignity

Posted by Staff on July 9, 2024 - 11:03am

Bill Herr taught high school mathematics and science for 32 years. After retiring from teaching, he began a nursing home ministry, first as a volunteer and then as a nursing home chaplain. He has written columns for the Icon on Bluffton sports history and on being a chaplain.

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Blood drive at St. Mary's, July 25

Posted by Staff on July 9, 2024 - 10:15am

The American Red Cross asks donors to make and keep appointments this July at one of several area locations to help meet life-saving transfusion needs this summer.

To make an appointment, visit www.redcrossblood.org/

St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bluffton will serve as the host site for a blood drive Thursday, July 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Two different types of blood donations will be administered, Whole and Power Red.

Listed below are additional blood drive dates and locations.

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