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JANUARY 7 UPDATE: Garland removal delayed by snow. Watch the Icon for the rescheduled activity.

The Bluffton Fire Department will announce a new date for removing the lighted garlands and snowflakes decorating downtown Bluffton businesses and light poles.

The decorations are coordinated by the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. Fees paid by participating businesses help support the Fire Department and the chamber.

Watching the removal of one of Bluffton's towering, shade giving trees on South Main, neighbors Jeanette Reineke and Pam Weisenbarger were reminded of a poem they both knew by heart, "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.

Captured here by Icon photographer Jamie Nygaard, they recited the poem for her.

Trees

BY JOYCE KILMER

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

We see you, Icon readers in Putnam County. Here an update from the Putnam County District Library on January activities. For more information, visit https://mypcdl.org/.

 

Ready To Read VIRTUAL/ZOOM Storytimes

January 3-27 Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m.  Email Valerie at  [email protected] for login.

 

Facebook Kids Winter Kitchen Science

The January dinner meeting for members of the Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main, will be held at noon on January 10.  The meal is free but reservations are required by January 5.

The meal will be catered by the Dough Hook and sponsored by Sunrise Senior Living. The menu is soup and salad.

Mary Hofstetter will emcee the event and the program is “a competition of minds. In other words, game day!” according to director Tonya Meyer.

By Joe Sehlhorst

Have you started creating a "To-do" list for 2022? The Icon recommends taking some time to make a "Done" list as well. Council member Joe Sehlhorst used his notes to compile the following recap for the Village of Bluffton:

Just a few of many accomplishments mentioned that we all can be proud of. 

Thank you all for such hard work, service, and dedication for the benefit of the Village.

NOVEMBER 2021

The Bluffton Icon is ringing in the new year with a new calendar format. View at https://www.blufftonicon.com/calendar

Now you can view the calendar by the week, month, or as a list of events. It can also be printed.

Click on individual items for details including addresses.

Have items of general community interest? Send them our way at [email protected].

 

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