We interupt this evening's program to bring you the 2013 Northwest Conference Junior High football champs - the Bluffton Pirates. The sirens and belling through town around 7:30 p.m. were fans following the bus from Columbus Grove. Click for a video.
The Nashville band, The Rough and Tumble, performs on the Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 26, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.
The Rough & Tumble, consisting of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler, describe themselves as “two scarecrows in a cornfield, two pairs of hands stealing the same piece of candy, a dust devil that traveled seven states to get to you only to make you cry… The Rough & Tumble are here to lock eyes with you in a crowded room, smile and wink at you.”
Saturday's your last chance. The Bluffton Farmers' Market concludes its 10th annual succesfully run in Bluffton. The market, open from 8:30 a.m. to noon, has its home in the Citizens National Bank parking lot. It will reopen on the first Saturday of May, 2014.
Elementary book fair week is coming to the Bluffton elementary next week. That’s just one of several events on the end of October and November calendar for students in K-5.
Here’s a summary of activities:
ELEMENTARY BOOK FAIR: The Book Fair will begin the week of Oct. 28. Daily hours will be 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday – Thursday and 8a.m. to 2p.m. on Friday. Family Night is Tuesday, Oct. 29th from 6-8 p.m.
Ebenezer Mennonite Church, Bluffton, will celebrate its 50th annual Festival of Missions, Nov. 10 through 17. The theme is Footprints of the Past, Footsteps toward the Future.
Featured speakers are Jerry Trousdale, director of International Ministries for City Team International. He co-founded Final Command Ministries, an organization dedicated to establishing church planting movements among Muslim people groups.
Chip Kirk has served with OM ships Doulos and Logos II since 1987. He and his wife, Stellise have two daughters and three grandchildren.
