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Minnesota college choir performs at Trinity Lutheran March 9

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 6, 2010 - 4:46am

The 61-voice Martin Luther College Choir from New Ulm, Minnesota, will present a concert "Speak, O Lord" at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 N. Main St., Jenera, at 7 p.m.,Tuesday, March 9.

The choir will sing familiar Christian hymns accompanied by brass, organ, timpani, piano, woodwinds and strings. There is no admission charge but a freewill offering will be received to help cover tour expenses.

Martin Luther college is the worker training college of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

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Former resident solos with orchestra

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 5, 2010 - 6:36pm
James Pannabecker

James Pannabecker formerly of Bluffton, will perform Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto Op. 54 with the Rockbridge Community Symphony Orchestra, March 6 at Lexington, Va., Presbyterian Church.

Pannabecker of Natural Bridge, Va., is a 1970 Bluffton High School graduate and 1974 Bluffton College graduate. He earned his Juris Doctor and Master of Regional Planning degrees from the University of North Carolina. He is the author or co-author of 23 books related to banking and mortgage lending, as well as numerous articles, poems, short stories and more.

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William Kenyon Freeman, 1913 - 2010

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 5, 2010 - 6:27pm
William Kenyon Freeman

William Kenyon Freeman, 96, of Pandora, died at 2:35 a.m., March 5, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. He was born March 7, 1913, in San Ysidro, Calif., to Allen P. and Elizabeth Kenyon Freeman.

On Nov. 23, 1941 he married Mary E. Collier, and she died Sept. 12, 2005.

Mr. Freeman was farmer in Delaware County most of his life until the Alum Creek Watershed Project took their farm at which time they relocated to a farm in Union County (Richwood, Ohio) in 1970.

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15 minutes with Rick Ramseyer

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 5, 2010 - 11:15am

Were you born in Bluffton? If not, how old were you when you moved to Bluffton?

My parents, Dick and Elfrieda, moved our family from Illinois to Bluffton in 1969 when Dad started a job at Bluffton College. I was 7 and my sister, Martha, had just turned 10. We lived in a white house at 108 Spring Street. Our neighbors on either side were the Slotters and the Friesens, with the Raids across from us. Stan and Ruth Naylor lived down the street, and I became good friends right away with their son, Jeff. I started third grade that fall in Mrs. Shetler's class.

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Your chance to tour Bluffton churches in March

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 5, 2010 - 6:02am

Bluffton Area Ministerial Association is sponsoring two tours of churches in the Bluffton community in March. Each church visit will include a presentation by the host church which may include a short tour of the building along with a short history of the building and congregation.

If time permits some facts about the denomination will be included in the presentations. Seven churches are participating in the tours which will take place on Saturday mornings - March 13 and 27.

Saturday, March 13

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CPT member Phil Hart discussion Colombia situation March 13

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 5, 2010 - 5:25am

First Mennonite Church will host a dialogue on the difficulties facing the community of Las Pavas in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia, South America. The dialogue is at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 13, at the church.

Phil Hart, Christian Peacemaker Teams reservist from Columbus Mennonite Church, will show slides and present an update on the story of the Las Pavas community from his visit there in early February.

The families continue a legal battle to regain access and title to land which they had farmed until their

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