All Blanchard Valley Health System services, including surgeries at Blanchard Valley Hospital and Bluffton Hospital, will continue as planned for Monday, Jan. 6.
If you have any questions or concerns, or if you prefer to reschedule due to the inclement weather, please call your physician or the Blanchard Valley Health System switchboard at 419-423-4500.
Creighton Dialysis services remain on a two hour delay for Monday.
The Swiss Community Historical Society will reschedule “Christmas at the Homestead” on Saturday, Jan. 11, from 1 to 7 p.m.
The holiday open house event was cancelled in December due to weather. The public is invited to tour the decorated house while snacking on homemade treats and listening to songs of the season.
Guests can watch bread being baked in the fireplace oven, hand dip a candle, play a game of checkers, shop in the gift shop and chat with staff about the history of the house and typical life in the 1840s.
The churches of Pandora and Gilboa are offering food boxes for households in the Pandora-Gilboa School District.
The boxes are designed to provide nine meals for a family of four. In order to pick up a box, you must register by calling 419-384-3038 by 5 pm on Monday Jan. 20.
Boxes will be available to be picked up on Saturday, Jan. 25 at 11 a.m. at the Grace Mennonite Church located at 502 East Main Street Pandora.
The next Maple Crest Senior Living, 700 Maple Court, Bluffton, Sunday buffet is Jan. 19, according to Daren Lee, director of Maple Crest.
The menu includes:
• Apple cherry pork chop
• Baked steak
• Mashed potatoes and gravy
• Grazed carrots
• Dinner rolls
• Chocolate cream pie
• coffee and iced tea.
The buffet is in the Patio Room at Maple Crest from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is open to all adults 55 and older at a cost of $7.50 per person.
You may add cancellation or reschedule announcements by sending them to: [email protected]
• The Village offices will be closed Tuesday. The plan is to reopen Wednesday. Trash details follow:
• Allied Waste is reporting their plan is to pick up the normal Wednesday and Friday routes as scheduled. Customers who normally have trash picked up on Monday will have their pick up delayed until next Monday (Jan 13). The village reports that "this is a fluid situation and changes will be posted as soon as practical."
Ottawa-Glandorf boys basketball team defeated Bluffton 71-51 in a non-conference game on Saturday. Levi Kistler led all scorers with 19 points . Attached are box scores.
