The Cotton Patch Gospel, a one-man musical by Phillip Kaufmann, will be presented at 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, at First Mennonite Church. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day event is sponsored by the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.
Here's an English Lutheran Church confirmation class taken in the mid-1950s. Lutheran viewers can help us identify everyone in the photo and perhaps place a year on it. We can identify two of the youth, from left, Craig Edwards, Irene (Basinger) Althaus,_______ Schmidt and unidentified. Can a viewer help us and possibly name the minister? Leland Gerber took this photo.
The Winter BFR sport and fitness session of youth and adult programs is beginning the week of Jan.7, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
Youth Programs
▪ basketball - grades K-3 on Thursdays, 3:30pm
▪ football - grades K-3 on Tuesdays, 3:30pm
▪ dodgeball - grades K-8 on Fridays, 3:30pm
▪ volleyball - grades 3-7 on Wednesdays, 3:30pm
▪ swim lessons - infants to grade 4 on Thursday evenings at The Comfort Inn.
These classes meet weekly for seven weeks.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs, will hold a roundtable workshop for one-shop-do-it-all business owners and independent consultants for product lines.
The free workshop is at 8:45 a.m., Friday, Jan. 11, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
The workshop follows the 7:30 a.m. January Bluffton chamber breakfast also held in the town hall.
The Shannon Theatre gave the Icon the heads up on the movies it has scheduled for Jan. 11 - 17. According to Pete Suter, here's what's playing:
Parental Guidance (PG) - stars Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei. Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behaviors collide with Artie and Diane's old-school methods. (IMDb)
Bradley Smith won this year's Icon football college bowl contest. Smith correctly picked 19 winners. Six contestants were one win behind the winner. The Icon will hold a Super Bowl contest coming coon.
Jesse Henry, former Bluffton resident, will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 13, in the Town Hall Concert Series. Henry will perform with Angela Perley. The concert is billed as a homecoming concert of acoustic original music, raising money and collecting instruments to teach music in Nairobi, Kenya.
“Snow shoveling is one of those things that no one likes to do, but most of us have to do – living here in Northwest Ohio”, states Wanda Dean, MSPT and owner of Northwest Physical Therapy. “What often accompanies this chore is the aching back and the heating pad, making the rest of your day miserable.” Dean goes on to state, “There are some things we can all do to prevent injury and make snow shoveling a chore that doesn’t have to cause pain.”
Here are some tips to keep you healthy and pain-free this winter while shoveling snow:
