You can never get enough of the Harvest and Herb Festival.
Here's our final look at this year's community event. Local freelance photographer Kerry Bush of Elysian Fields Photography, Bluffton, shared these photos of the event with the Icon.
Thanks to Lelia Dyer we now know that that the story we posted about a paw paw tree is actually an Osage orange, also known hedge apple, horse apple, monkey ball, or, if you know your French, bois d'arc.
Our story listed many edible uses for paw paw. But Osage orange is seldom eaten due to extremely hard texture and taste. The fruit is not poisonous to humans or livestock, as shown by several studies. The seeds of the fruit are edible and it is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other animals use of it as food source.
Ada and LCC tennis squads combined for a benefit for Amelia Griffin on Wednesday at the tennis courts in the park. Pictured are seniors (from left) Mackenzie Wills, Casey Swick, Cheyenne Wells and Olivia Gonder. "Serve for a Cure" profits went entirely for the little girl's medical expenses. Ada raised $600 and LCC $400 for the special benefit. There was a t-shirt sale, bake sale, raffle, and just plain 'ole cash donations. Two other Team Amelia events are planned for Tuesday, Sept.
Last Saturday was Ada's fall event. This weekend it's Bluffton's turn.
FROM THE BLUFFTON ICON - The Bluffton community’s 12th annual Fall Festival, with many family-oriented activities, takes place throughout the community on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.
During the month of August, Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 2.50 inches of rain.
The most rain for this month, 3.90 inches, fell in Hale Township as measured by Tim Ramsey. The least rain reported during the month, 1.56 inches was reported in Liberty Township by Phil Epley.
During the same month last year, an average of 3.73 inches of rain fell. The rainfall recorded in August over the past ten years averaged 4.14 inches.
