Oscar Velasquez of Bluffton will perform at the Hillside Winery, Gilboa, on Saturday, Aug. 21. The afternoon includes art, music, food and wine tasting. Velasquez will perform from 3 to 4 p.m. The actual event will take place from 1 to 6 p.m. Food is catered by Donna and Merle Smith. Several other area arts will perform during the event.
Seth Swary, son of Kein and Wendy Swary of Pandora, is the recipient of the Alvin F. and Mary C. Basinger Scholarship for 2010. The annual $500 scholarship goes to a Pandora-Gilboa High School senior.
The recipient is selected on the basis of scholarship merit, leadership, school and community service and the promise of success in a chosen field.
Rebekah Ricker, a pianist from Spencerville, will perform her Bluffton University senior recital at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26, in Yoder Recital Hall on the Bluffton campus. The recital is free and open to the public.
Kelsey Dyck stretches out and enjoys the music and ice cream at Sunday night's Music on the Lawn at the Mennonite Memorial Home. With him are his parents Marie and Rodney Dyck. The annual event brings hundreds of people - MMH residents, staff, family and Bluffton residents to the Home for some music, ice cream and conversation.
This is the second part of a three-part series of out-of-state plates The Icon captured recently on Main Street. Vehicles from Nebraska, New York and Ontario were parked in a neat row. Here's the Empire State plate.
