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Bluegrass music will be on the town hall concert series from4 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 14, according toWendy Chappell-Dick.

"All ages are invited to a gathering of some of the best pickers in the region playing bluegrass and old time standards. Bring your instrument and play along," she said.

Music in the Rafters has been a home town tradition for years at Mike and Opie Wright's house on Elm Street.

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Bluffton Hospital has been named one of only 36 inpatient hospitals in the United States to receive the 2010 Press Ganey Summit Award. This is the second consecutive year Bluffton Hospital has received this honor.

The Press Ganey Summit Award is given to health care facilities that sustain the highest level of customer satisfaction for three or more consecutive years.

According to Press Ganey Associates, Inc., Bluffton Hospital has ranked in the 99th percentile nationally for inpatient satisfaction for more than four consecutive years.

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The 24th annual Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce Blaze of Lights is Saturday, Nov. 27. Here is the latest information about this year's festival.

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The Bluffton University Nutrition Association's annual spaghetti dinner is from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 12, at First Mennonite Church.

The event benefits the Lima-based Churches United Food Pantries (CUP). In addition to spaghetti, the menu includes salad, baguette, dessert and refreshments. For more information contact Alisha Byrne at [email protected].

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Mennonite Women, of First Mennonite Church, will meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8, in the church fellowship hall. The program is titled "Mission at home." Speaking will be Paula McKibben, Louise Wideman and Dr. Terry Chappell.

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Arline W. Wagner, 99, of Bluffton, died at 3:55 a.m., Nov. 8, 2010, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

She was born Nov. 18, 1910 in Dola, Ohio, to Willis and Myrtle Swartz Wolfe. She married Daniel W. Wagner and he died in 1980.Mrs. Wagner was a homemaker.

Survivors are a daughter, Norma Parent, Bluffton; grandson, Daniel (Denise) Parent, Aiken, S.C., granddaughter, Roxanne (Mark) Pool, Lexington, Ky. and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Donald, Dale and Robert Wolfe, and one sister, Kathryn Mills.

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