It was fun while it lasted. The 2009 Bluffton holiday season. Launched with the Blaze of Lights and one of the largest parades ever to grace Main Street, it offered some great holiday lights and more.
It's over on Jan. 9. That's when the Bluffton Cultural Affairs Committee's team of loyal volunteers remove the Ream folk art display from the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn.
Forget the ice and snow. Think spring. A fruit tree pruning and spraying program will be offered at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the Bluffton Public Library.
The program is sponsored by the Gardners of the Bluffton Pandora Area (formerly Bluffton Men's Garden Club). The program is part of the club's January meeting.
A master gardeners, attending the meeting, will share their knowledge with the group. Members will also bring new seed catalogs to disucss good and bad points about various companys.
Ebenezer Mennonite Church will host a series of programs from Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University.
The programs are from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m., Wednesday and Sunday evenings beginning the week of Jan. 17. In addition two preview showings are Sunday, Jan. 10, (9 a.m.) and Wednesday, Jan. 13, (7 p.m).
Financial Peace University is a 13-week, video based small group study that teaches families how to beat debt, build wealth and give "like never before."
The program is free and open to the public. Dave Ramsey's Peace University web site is daveramsey.com.
Assuming these are initials do they belong to a Diller, Dunifon, Doty, Downey, Dukes, Dyck or Dunlap? We don't know the answer, except that the driver lives in Allen County.
Lillian and Logan - you will hear a lot from these two in about 15 years. According to the official list of babies born in the Bluffton Hospital in 2009 it appears that Logan and Lillian were popular among mothers and fathers naming children.
Other names were popular. Here's the official list, provided by the OB Department.
Names of boys born at the Bluffton Hospital in 2009
