The March church service schedule at Mennonite Memorial Home was released this week.
Sunday services at 9:30 a.m.
4th - Chaplain Bill Herr
11th - Rev. Charles Warren
18th - Chaplain Bill Herr
25th - Rev. Dennis Maurer
Tuesday services at 6:30 p.m.
6th - Bryant Miller, First United Methodist
13th - Dick Potter, Ebenezer Mennonite
20th - Dennis Schmidt, Grace Mennonite
27th - Gary Rummel, Harrod Christian
Barry Schneck and I sat down for our pre-arranged interview. Then his phone rang. It was a hospital checking on some information. We started over. Then his phone rang. It was a call from the adult son of a potential resident. We started again. Then, he excused himself to make a couple follow-up calls concerning the potential resident.
Barry was in his typical, "I'm really sorry about this," mode. He was also in his element: being able to help someone with an immediate need.
Want to make your own maple syrup? It's simple. Just wait until February when it's below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. That weather combination causes sap to run in maple trees.
It's lots more complicated than that, of course, but it's certainly satisfying for a guy with a lot of patience and lots of maple trees. Oh, and it takes lots of maple sap: 50 gallons of sap boils down to one gallon of maple syrup.
Tickets are now on sale for this year's Bluffton Music Boosters chicken barbecue and shrimp dinner planned Friday, March 23, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. (or sell out) at the middle school cafetorium.
Pre-ticket sales are underway at $6.50 per ticket ($7 after March 16). Tickets are available at Greg's Pharmacy and at the middle school and high school offices. This year's meal includes one-half chicken (or seven pieces of shrimp), potato salad, applesauce, dinner roll and a drink.
Bluffton University President James Harder speaks during the memorial service on the fifth anniversary of the Bluffton University baseball accident. Click for a video.
Ten Thousand Villages wants Icon viewers to start thinking "spring." From Monday, March 5, through Monday, March 19, the shop will offer $5 off any planter priced at $25 or more.
The store at 115 S. Main St., Bluffton has the following hours:
Store hours are:
Monday-Wednesday 9:00-5:00
Thursday 1:00-5:00
Friday-Saturday 9:00-5:00
Call Ten Thousand Villages at (419)358-7233 for more information.
Cory-Rawson High School will present "The Idi-Odyssey," by Burton Bumgarner, at 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 22 and 23, in the school auditorium.
The play is called "an enjoyable spoof of 'The Odyssey,' which will delight young and old.
With a cast of over 35 students the action never stops. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are available in advance at the superintendent's office or at the door the night of the performances.
An American Red Cross blood drive is slated for Jenera on March 8. The drive takes place from 1 to 6 p.m., Thursday, March 8, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran School, 105 Allen St.
How to Donate Blood
Simply call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients.
More than 150 members of the Bluffton University community gathered on Friday to reflect on the life-changing events of March 2, 2007, when a bus carrying the Bluffton baseball team to spring-break games in Florida crashed in Atlanta, taking seven lives.
But speakers at the service marking the fifth anniversary of the tragedy also remembered the caring and support that came the community's way in the accident's aftermath.
