It’s Christmas concert season. Monday launched the concerts as the Bluffton 4th and 5th grade band and strings performed in the middle school cafetorium. This week and next week everyone in Bluffton will be humming holiday tunes.
Here's the schedule:
On Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall is the Bluffton University Christmas concert.
On Sunday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. in Founders Hall is the 118th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” by the Bluffton Choral Society.
BFR Director, Carole Enneking, reminds community members that the BFR Sports and Fitness is a partner in the Silver Sneakers Fitness Program.
Silver Sneakers is a network of fitness facilities across the United States that offer free memberships to senior adults who have qualifying insurance plans. Currently, BFR has 145 Silver Sneakers members using its facility.
It was a gut instinct that Mark and Jackie Bourassa went with in 1997 when they adopted their first of three children from the Philippines. And since then, they have maintained a strong connection with the islands and its peoples. Now, their family feels called to do something to help with the on-going relief from the Nov. 7 typhoon.
Steve Rodabaugh, Dan Basinger and Dan Stanowick play the roles of Fred Rodabaugh, Larry Badertscher and Roger Mullenhour in Saturday's premier performance of "Deck the Farm."
The production, by Pat Rodabaugh, provided a capsulized version of the story of the Ream Christmas display.
AT BOTTOM OF STORY CHECK FOR LINK TO MARK YODER'S 177 BLAZE PHOTOS.
With temperatures reaching 47 degrees during the late afternoon parade, this year's Blaze drew a crowd estimated at 3,000-plus. At many points along the parade route, the crowd was five people deep.
