Everything at Et Cetera Shop is on sale for one quarter - if you are kid from kindergarten to sixth grade. The shop's annual Kid's Shopping Day Sale is from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec. 10, according to Chrissy Lugibihl, manager.
"Every gift a youth from kindergarten to sixth grade purchases during sale hours will go for 25 cents each, no matter what the tag says, "said Lugibihl. "There is a limit of 10 gifts per child."
Jacob Atkins (right), a Bluffton University senior from Spencerville, looks over donated food items while Rachael LeFever (left), a junior from Orrville, makes a donation Saturday, Dec. 3, in Bluffton's Founders Hall.
Atkins and other students in a "Planning for Special Events" class hosted "A Season of Giving" at the day's men's and women's basketball games, where they collected more than 700 items-enough to fill 18 boxes-for the Bluffton Community Assistance Food Pantry.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce has the answer for persons trying to find a gift for that difficult person on your list. The chamber suggests to give the person a Bluffton chamber gift certificate.
Certificates are available at Citizens National Bank. Simply ask one of the tellers you are interested in a certificate. The certificates are available in any denomination. There is no extra charge to purchase a certificate. They are actually a check drawn on the chamber's checking account. The gift certificates may be used in any Bluffton business over the next 12 months.
What is it with Christmas lights? Every year, they work fine all through Christmas and are still shining brightly when I take them down and store them away for the next year.
But 11 months later, I pull them out of storage, plug them in and...nothing. Absolutely nothing. No lights. Not a single one on the string.
Hannah Shelly of Bluffton, began a one-year term of Mennonite Voluntary Service August 2011 in Rochester, N.Y., as Media Arts assistant with Visual Studies Workshop.
A 2011 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Va.), Shelly is the daughter of Lisa and Art Shelly.
My wife and I enjoyed the Bixel interview. My wife, Joy, is also a Hope College graduate, and I am a Bluffton College graduate. Small world. We have been married 45 years. Kindly pass along to Andrew that the liberal arts of both colleges make for an ideal relationship.
Just a bit late for Thanksgiving - but we serve this with poultry and pork all year.
The texture and flavor are a perfect foil for the somewhat bland recipes often served for holiday season. My Grandmother Vanden Brink was the first person who I recall having made this recipe. She used her old hand grinder - attached to the side of the kitchen table - handle slowly turned, to prevent the squirting of those pesky cranberries.
The relish freezes well and keeps through several months.
