The Cotton Patch Gospel, a one-man musical by Phillip Kaufmann, will be presented at 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, at First Mennonite Church. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day event is sponsored by the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.
Here's an English Lutheran Church confirmation class taken in the mid-1950s. Lutheran viewers can help us identify everyone in the photo and perhaps place a year on it. We can identify two of the youth, from left, Craig Edwards, Irene (Basinger) Althaus,_______ Schmidt and unidentified. Can a viewer help us and possibly name the minister? Leland Gerber took this photo.
The Winter BFR sport and fitness session of youth and adult programs is beginning the week of Jan.7, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
Youth Programs
▪ basketball - grades K-3 on Thursdays, 3:30pm
▪ football - grades K-3 on Tuesdays, 3:30pm
▪ dodgeball - grades K-8 on Fridays, 3:30pm
▪ volleyball - grades 3-7 on Wednesdays, 3:30pm
▪ swim lessons - infants to grade 4 on Thursday evenings at The Comfort Inn.
These classes meet weekly for seven weeks.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs, will hold a roundtable workshop for one-shop-do-it-all business owners and independent consultants for product lines.
The free workshop is at 8:45 a.m., Friday, Jan. 11, in the third floor of the Bluffton town hall.
The workshop follows the 7:30 a.m. January Bluffton chamber breakfast also held in the town hall.