Kehoe Park Concerts Continue

The Outlaw Cowboys played Kehoe Park Sunday night. Visit our Showtime Blog for more video from Barb Barbieri.

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Blue is a 12 week old domestic short-haired, female


Lava & Tigger are 14 week old domestic short-haired, males

COPS cyclists

The annual COPS bicycle ride around Indiana passed through Bluffton yesterday. Led into town with a Bluffton Police Department escort the riders spent the night at Bluffton Inn & Suites before heading out again to finish their 1,000 mile ride.

BRMC Receives Gold Performance Award for Stroke Care

Bluffton Regional Medical Center has been presented with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes hospitals successful in implementing nationally accepted standards and recommendations for stroke care for 24 consecutive months. Bluffton Regional is 1 of only 2 hospitals in the state of Indiana to receive this award.

To receive the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award, Bluffton Regional demonstrated 85% or better adherence in key measures for 24 or more consecutive months.

Bluffton Regional is one of only 13 hospitals in Indiana to be accredited as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.

The number of acute ischemic stroke patients eligible for treatment is expected to grow over the next decade or more as a result of increased stroke incidence and the aging of the American population. According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds; someone dies from a stroke every 3 minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.

(Submitted Info)

MOST READ LIBRARY BOOKS FOR JULY

Looking for something different to read? Perhaps a novel told from a dog’s point of view or a guidebooks for welding farm equipment. These are just two topics from the most loaned books of July 2010 from the Wells County Public Library. Check them out:

Fiction
1) The art of racing in the rain, by Garth Stein. This novel has been selected as the book for the One Book, One County community read project. Copies of the book are available to loan or purchase. It’s the story of Enzo, a lab terrier mix, who rides shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off.
2) The telling, by Beverly Lewis. In book three of the Season’s of Grace series, Lettie ponders both long-ago choices and her decision to leave home on a quest to find her long-lost daughter.
3) A stranger’s wish, by Gayle Roper. Englischer Kristie Matthews’ move to an Amish family farm starts out with a mystery when an old man hands her a key and swears her to silence.
4) Return to sender, by Fern Michaels. Twenty years after Lin is rejected by her baby’s father she runs into him in New York. Now she must relive the heartbreak and choose forgiveness or revenge.
5) Dakota home, by Debbie Macomber. Book two of the Buffalo Valley series continues with a possible romance for the new owner of the general store and a local rancher with deep scars.

Non-Fiction
1) The Dutch Delight: a collection of recipes from Bluffton. These recipes from local residents continue to top the most read books at the library.
2) Three weeks with my brother, by Nicholas Sparks. Bestselling author Sparks chronicles a three-week trip around the world with his older brother, Micah, that takes them to Guatemala's Mayan ruins, Easter Island, the killing fields in Cambodia and Ethiopian rock cathedrals.
3) New backyard idea book, by Natali Ermann Russell. Discover hundreds of fresh ideas and unique solutions for making the most of one’s outdoor space with large and small projects.
4) The farm welding handbook, by Richard Finch. Step-by-step guide to set up a farm-specific welding shop. The focus is on oxyacetylene gas and arc welding with wire-feed MIG welding for soft metals also covered.
5) This time together, by Carol Burnett. Comedy legend Carol Burnett looks back fondly on her long and successful career in short, easily digestible chapters that part the curtain on her private life.

For more information about checking out books at the Wells County Public Library, stop by the main or Ossian Branch or visit www.wellscolibrary.org

Kehoe Park Concerts Continue

Blue River Big Band played at Kehoe Park on Sunday. Hundreds (including News-Banner Editor Dave Schultz) gathered by the Wabash River to enjoy their soothing melodies and 'Big band' music.

Adopt-A-Pet!

Dipstick and Olive are brothers. They are DSH Tabby/white neutered and declawed males. Both are current on FDRP, Leuk vaccines, worming and flea treated. Adoption fee is only $10.00 HOUSECATS ONLY!

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