The Bluffton EMS will hold a chicken barbecue fundriser from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, April 18, in the Bluffton elementary multi-purpose room.
Tickets are $6 and include a one-half chicken, baked potato, green beans and a roll. Desserts are extra. Youth from the Bluffton First United Methodist Church will sell desserts as a fundraiser.
Groves Bears will relocate in the former Movie Gallery building at the corner of Jefferson and Vance Street, according to Robin Wilch of the Main Street business.
Originally, the shop planned to relocated in another Main Street storefront.
"We signed the lease on March 26 and took possession of the building on March 29," said Wilch. "The space is huge with wonderful lighting, customer parking and many other features that will accommodate our needs."
The Rhodes State Physical Therapist Assistant Club will sponsor "Run for the Health of It!", a Fun Walk/5k Run, at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 17.
The 3.1-mile course, which will be mapped out and blocked off, is located on the James A. Rhodes State/OSU Lima campus, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima, OH 45804. Parking in campus parking lots will be available to all runners.
Pre-registration deadline is April 5, 2010. Cost is $18 with t-shirt, $10 without t-shirt. Only pre-registered runners will receive a t-shirt. No shirts will be available for purchase on race day.
It's getting warmer! The lowest "high" temperature reading in the past seven days was 39 on March 26. Here are the highs and lows for the past seven days, reported by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
Somehow this gentle flower can handle the final blasts of winter, and holds on long enough to offer hope that warmer weather is on the way. The yellow and purple crocus, the surprise lilly of the spring are showing their form in Bluffton this week.
The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association (BAMA) invites the community to join in the annual Community Good Friday observances on Friday, April 2.
The event begins with the procession of the cross through town at 11:30 a.m. The procession will start from St. Mary's Catholic Church and will end at English Lutheran Church, the host site for the worship service (located at 111 Grove St.).
The route for the procession follows:
oFrom St. Mary's, east on Elm to Jackson, south on Jackson to First United Methodist Church,
The Blufftom Area Ministerial Association announced that the Community Meal for Thursday, April 1, has been cancelled for the Maundy Thursday holy day. The community meal for the third Thursday of the month, April 15, will take place as scheduled.
Rev. Kevin Mohr has announced the Holy Week schedule for English Lutheran Church.
On Maundy Thursday, April 1, is a service of holy communion at 7:30 p.m. The theme for the evening will be "Where is God in the Upper Room?" and the service will include a footwashing ceremony for those in attendance who wish to participate, and will conclude the ritual stripping of the altar in preparation for the community Good Friday service the next day at 12:05 p.m.
St. John Mennonite Church, Pandora, will hold a marriage enrichment conference, Friday and Saturday, April 9-10, at the church located at 15988 Road 4, Pandora.
The conference will be led by Bill and Ann Harris and it is open to singles, recently married, married for years or couple who are dating.
Bill Harris was formerly a newscaster with Channel 13, Toledo, and is the founder of Rapture Ministries. He and his wife, Ann, present the biblically-based seminars.
