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Do we have a deal for people advertising garage sales in The Icon! In our second season of posting garage sales The Icon plans several new ways to promote your event.

Continuing our free garage sale policy, this year viewers may send one photo of an item or one photo showing several items to be sold at your garage sale. The Icon will post your photo with your garage sale ad. We hope that this increases your garage sale's attendance.

Banjo and guitar player and singer Matt Brown will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Friday, April 1, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall in the Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick, of the village cultural affairs committee.

Opening for Brown are the Bluffton High School Fiddlers, an after- school club.

The performance is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted.

Witnessing The Good News - Lima's Christian radio station, WTGN FM, was in Bluffton earlier this week. The Icon spotted this plate in the Riley Court parking lot.

It's not too early to start planning that graduation party in your home. Southgate Lanes, 9700 N. Dixie Highway, Bluffton, is scheduling grad parties now, according to John Dailey.

A Southgate Lanes rental includes use of the entire building, bowling shoes and balls, persons may bring their own food, and rental is by the hour at reasonable rates.

"There's more fun and less to worry about when you schedule Southgate Lanes for your graduation party," said Dailey.

The Bluffton Icon's newest advertiser will do your dirty work for a reasonable price. Super Hero Pooper Scooper, a pet waste service, is expanding into Bluffton.

Doug Moneer, 341 Laney Ave., Lima, is offering the service. "The benefits from my service is that it saves busy pet owners' time and the hassle of cleaning up their pet's dirty business and it keeps yards maintained from pet waste."

March goes out like a....maybe a lamb-lion. Not too cold; not really warm. Here's the weather summary for the past seven days reported by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

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