Members of the Bluffton Presbyterian Church youth group will hold a 30-hour famine May 6-7. This is the sixth year the the youth "go hungry so others may eat."
This year's country focus is Haiti. The youth will raise money for Haiti and also for relief efforts in Japan.
Interested in hearing the Bluffton High School jazz band without going to a concert? On Monday night the band, directed by Dave Sycks, performed in the Bluffton Public Library.
Interested in hearing the Bluffton High School jazz band without going to a concert? On Monday night the band, directed by Dave Sycks, performed in the Bluffton Public Library.
Smith's Realty, 147 N. Main St., Bluffton, announces a new listing. It is a residence at 220 Heather Lane, Pandora. For details open the attachment at the bottom of this story, or call Smith's at 419-358-1177. The information is also located on a printer-friendly display ad on the Icon classified page.
The community of Bluffton's next American Red Cross blood drive is from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, April 28, in Burcky Gym, Bluffton University.Donors will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gasoline gift certificate. E-mail [email protected] to schedule your blood donation appointment.
Deer Creek Shoppes along with Anne Stratton held an antique appraisal night at Maple Crest Senior Living Village on Thursday, April 14.
There were 15 items appraised that evening ranging from a flow blue lamp, and other ceramics, to quilts, silver, pictures, toys and textiles.
Some of the items were very unique, including:
* a Bavarian cut glass ruby red vase,
* an old pottery piggy bank,
* a World War I Military outfit,
* a five-claw Japanese garden seat, and a feather stuffed quilt that was hand stitched and pieced circa 1870-1890.
Bluffton Icon advertiser Drive Time Driving Instruction, with offices in Bluffton and Findlay, has a Bluffton class beginning May 1.
Drive Time Driving Instruction offers 24 hours of required classroom instruction, six sessions scheduled with your input, 8 hours of behind-the-wheel training, carefully chosen, highly-qualified instructors with classes in Bluffton and Findlay.
Drive Time's Bluffton office is at 505 E. Jefferson St. It will offer a new classroom in May.
Bluffton University's Peace Education and Action Community Endeavor (PEACE) Club and university senior Maggie Rose Stover, an intern for the Bluffton Fair Trade Task Force, will show the film "The Dark Side of Chocolate" at 9 p.m. tonight (April 20) in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The screening is free and open to the public.
The 45-minute documentary is about the cocoa supply chain in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, and the chocolate produced by children there.
