The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce has announced Residential Lights Competition Winners for 2023: DECORATIONS 342 S. Main Street - 1st Place, CHAMBER'S CHOICE 205 Hilcrest Drive, LIGHTING 347 Sycamore Court - 1st Prize, MAYOR'S CHOICE 229 Locust Court, DECORATION & LIGHTING UNITY 199 Kibler Street - 1st Place BUSINESS WINNERS Samuel W. Diller Co., L.P.A. and Blackhoof Title Agency - 1st Place, The Curling Iron - 2nd Place, Ellerbrock Spine and Soft Tissue - 3rd Place.
If your lunch plans include a trip to Restaurant Row and other locations in Bluffton, make sure they have power before you go. According to AEP, power went out at 10:26 a.m. on December 22 and is estimated to be back up at 2:00 p.m. More than 1,000 customers are shown as being without power.
When Christmas decorations start appearing after Halloween, I’m apt to feel a little Scrooge-ish. “Bah humbug!” When Christmas music starts to play downtown, I ping-pong between the two camps that exist in town: sometimes I love it and sometimes I wish I could pull the cord.
Selling peanut brittle has been a major fundraiser for the Bluffton Senior Center since the early 1970s and 2023 is no exception. For five Mondays in October and November, over 30 volunteers gathered to make this delicious holiday treat.
Columnist Bill Herr taught high school mathematics and science for 32 years before serving as a volunteer and then as a staff chaplain at two nursing homes.
By Bill Herr
This article is written especially for preachers. I’m certain that one responsibility of a pastor is to bring spiritual nourishment to every member of the congregation. Providing this means the pastor is responsible not only to those that attend worship services, but also to church members that are not able to leave their homes due to aging or health issues, and also to members residing in elderly care institutions.
My uncle lived in a nursing home in his later years. He was a veteran of WWII, a father of four fine kids, a good man who was not given to talking much. I used to visit him on Sunday afternoons and we would watch NFL football games together. He had been shot by a sniper in the Philippines during the war and came home to recover in a Veterans’ hospital. He was given drugs and became addicted to them. Being divorced and not having a home, his brother, my father, invited him to live with us. He helped us farm and became clean from the addiction.
