Events

Accordian, harmonica, dulcimers and piano

Harmonica, dulcimers, piano and accordian music will fill the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center during the the Saturday, March 17, Senior Citizens-Lions Club Founndation pancake and sausage benefit.

Pancake and sausage serving is from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Senior Center, 132 N. Main St.

Here's the performance schedule:
• 8 a.m. Lynn LaRue, harmonica
• 9 a.m. Dulcimers
• 10 a.m. Barb Staher, pianio
• 11 a.m. Marilyn Wymer, accordian

Here's the March 16 Music Booster chicken barbecue performance schedule

Tickets are on sale and the musical performance schedule is set for the Friday, March 16, Bluffton Music Boosters chicken barbecue and shrimp dinner.

Serving is in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium with musical performances in the middle school gymnasium beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Pre-sale tickets are $7.50 After March 11 tickets are $8 and are available in the middle school office until sold out.

The menu includes one-half chicken or seven pieces of shrimp, potato salad, applesauce, dinner roll and drink. Proceeds benefit the Bluffton Music Boosters.

Pre-sale tickets $7.50 at middle school

Tickets are on sale for the Friday, March 16, Bluffton Music Boosters ichicken barbecue and shrimp dinner.

Serving is in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium with musical performances in the middle school gymnasium beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Pre-sale tickets are $7.50 After March 11 tickets are $8 and are available in the middle school office until sold out.

The menu includes one-half chicken or seven pieces of shrimp, potato salad, applesauce, dinner roll and drink. Proceeds benefit the Bluffton Music Boosters.

Local ragtime and blues guitarist Matt Keeler will perform at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series.

 Keeler has t1- years experience teaching music in the Catholic schools of Putnam County. He has taught private guitar and saxophone lessons for nearly 20 years.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Bluffton University (’99) and a master's degree in musicology (ethnomusicology) from Bowling Green State University (’05).

Featured in Oakwoods open house

Endangered Species aren’t just elephants, pandas and polar bears. There are also endangered species in Ohio: Lake Erie water snakes, Clubshell mussels, Karner blue butterflies, Eastern prairie fringed orchids, to name just a few. 

On Sunday, March 4, Hancock Park District presents “Ohio’s Endangered Species: Open House” to learn about Ohio’s 28 threatened and endangered species through activities, displays and a craft.

4:30-6:30 p.m. at Maple Crest

Maple Crest Senior Living Village will host a Soup Cook Off and Silent Auction on Thursday, March 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the lower-level patio room of the main building. 

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