Dr. Perry Bush says his new book is about several things.
How Lima, Ohio, saved its oil refinery from closure by British Petroleum in the 1990s is the story of a city's fight and survival against long odds, says the Bluffton University history professor and author of "Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won."
Pre-school children (ages 4-6) are encouraged to attend one or all of the
remaining BFR mini camps offered on Thursdays, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
The July 26 theme is Sports Sampler, and Aug. 2 will feature Fairy Tale Village.
Registration fee is $12 ($8 BFR member) per day and includes all camp
activities from 9-10:30am, plus snack and craft. Call BFR 419-358-4150 to register.
To help support operations of the BFR facility, tickets are available now
for several raffle items, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
Drawing for each will be held at BFR on Friday, July 27 at noon. The largest prize is a package of four Toledo Mudhens tickets for the Sunday, Aug. 5, game. Each ticket costs $5. Lariche Chevrolet donated this package for the raffle.
In addition, for $1 per ticket or six tickets for $5, several local businesses have donated items.
Items include:
o a $20 gift certificate to Luke's Pizza,
The British are coming...to BFR!
BFR Sports & Fitness will host the Challenger British Soccer Camp again
this July. Challenger Camps are offered across the nation to youth soccer players of all levels. The BFR camp will be held July 30 to Aug. 30 with morning and/or evening sessions available.
Children ages 4-6 years will meet 10:30 a.m.-noon or 6-8 p.m., children ages 6-16 will attend the morning session from 9 a.m.-noon or 5-8 p.m.
Full day pricing is available, as well, and includes attendance at both the morning and evening sessions.
Here is a photo taken of a tractor-trailer fire by Jeff Laing this morning at 5:25 a.m. at the Beaverdam Interstate 75 exit. The Icon does not have any other detail of the fire at this time.
James Crawfis of Beaverdam took one last visit to the former Beaverdam town hall three days prior to it being razed.
Here's what he told The Icon about the visit:
"These are some of the pictures I took (and one old one from the 1920s sometime). The picture with the stairs is from the opening of the very front door. My Dad (Gary) said the last time he was upstairs in the town hall was a good 40 years ago.
