Bluffton University music groups will come together for a spring concert of fun and familiar tunes on Sunday, April 21, in Yoder Recital Hall.
At 2:00 p.m., pre-concert music will be provided in the lobby. A jazz combo will perform with senior trumpeter Caleb Gaertner, a Music major/graphic design minor from Toledo. Selections include “When I Fall in Love” – made famous by Nat King Cole – and “Song For My Father” by Horace Silver.
The 2:30 concert will feature the University Chorale, Camerata Singers and Concert Band in a varied program of classical music, as well as “just for fun” pieces.
ADA__The visiting Bluffton softball team led early before losing to local rival Ada 11-1 in a Northwest Conference contest on a warm Monday evening, April 15. (Photos below.)
Columnist Bill Herr taught high school mathematics and science for 32 years before serving as a volunteer and then as a staff chaplain at two nursing homes.
By Bill Herr
My aunt lived in a nursing home in a nearby city. I have great memories of my aunt and uncle. At family gatherings in their home, the younger ones played games and the older ones played cards. My aunt had been active in social organizations. My uncle had a good job and always had a cigar in his mouth when they played cards. He had passed years before when I went to visit my aunt a nursing home.
When I visit someone I always bring up past events in that person’s life in the conversation. When I mentioned my uncle’s name, my aunt, who now had dementia, asked me where he was. I said, “He is in heaven, you remember he died a few years back.” That was the wrong thing for me to say. My aunt cried and said, “Why didn’t someone tell me?” She was angry.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife invites the public to attend an open house to learn more about Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer.
Bluffton has celebrated Christmas in April with Bluffton High School performances of Elf the Musical this past weekend, April 12-14. Scores of photographs are posted HERE, in a Facebook album by Marvin Foster. (Close the pop-up window to view, if needed.)
