The Bluffton High School prom will be held Saturday, April 21, from 8 to 11 p.m. at The Centre. This year's theme is "Lost at Sea." The Centre will be open for a public walk-through from 7 to 8 p.m., according to Michaeline Lovell, BHS teacher and junior class/prom advisor.
By Laurel Neufeld Weaver MSW LISW-S
Rape Crisis and Anti-Human Trafficking Program Coordinator
Crime Victim Services of Allen and Putnam Counties
A movie documentary Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth is playing at the Shannon Theater Saturday morning April 21st at 10 a.m. Admission is free but donations will be accepted at the door for NW Ohio Human Trafficking Rescue and Restore Coalition. A short talk back will follow the movie showing. This movie is recommended for late teens or adults.
The Ohio Northern University Department of Communication and Theatre Arts presents Thoroughly Modern Millie at The Freed Center.
The production will run Thursday, April 19 through Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 21 and Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m..
Ticket prices are: adults $15; seniors $12; non-ONU students $12; children $9. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Freed Center Box Office at 419-772-1900 or on our website at www.freedcenter.com.
It takes an entire high school to put on a musical, and no one knows that better than Kevin Gratz and Kara Zink, directors of this weekend's Blufftton High School "Vaudenville Tonight."
Billed as a musical revue performances are at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 13 and Saturday, April 14, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 15 on the Bluffton Middle School stage.
The musical is based upon the book by Joseph George Caruso and orchestration by Paul Curnow.
The final session of late spring youth programs will begin the week of April 16 at BFR Sports and Fitness, according to Carole Enneking, director.
Youth in grades kindergarten through grade three may choose from skills classes in basketball (Thursdays), football (Tuesdays),
dodgeball (Fridays), t-ball basics (Mondays) and swim (Thursdays).
Older youth (grades 3-6) may choose to be part of the flag football program or tennis lessons (Tuesdays), swim lessons on Thursdays, or dodgeball on Fridays.
The Bluffton Cultural Affairs Town Hall Concert Series features "indigenous music, art and culture," in its 7 p.m., Saturday, April 21, Earth Day Concert in the third floor of the town hall, according to Wendy Chappell Dick, of the cultural affairs committee.
The program includes a program featuring a multi-media trio of Bell Acoustics, artist and photographer Carole Elchert, and didgeridoo player David Leavitt.
