For Bluffton postal patrons wanting to know holiday dates for domestic mail deadlines and foreign mail, The Icon provides the following charts to assist in your planning.
Two charts, which are printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story, show dates so that you may get your packages and cards delivered on time.
Or, you may click here to open the U.S. Postal website, which lists all the deadlines.
Here's a Christmas pooch waiting to be under your tree on Dec. 25. The dog and its carrier were part of the Allen County Humane Society unit in the Blaze of Lights parade on Saturday.
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.
Social Security is the theme of the Friday, Dec. 13, Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. A complete, free breakfast will be served from 7 to 7:30 a.m. The breakfast meeting is from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
Myrna A. Engelhardt, 71, of Bluffton died at 2:55 pm Dec. 3, 2013, at the Wexner Medical Center, Columbus. She was born March 8, 1942, in Wapakoneta to the late Ned K. and Mary E. Harshbarger Krapf. On March 10, 1962 she married David Engelhardt and he survives.
The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference recently announced the fall honorees of the HCAC All-Academic awards for the 2013-14 school year. Twenty three Bluffton University athletes were recognized for their efforts in the classroom. Football led the way for the Beavers with seven honorees. Women's soccer and men's soccer both checked in with six honorees.
