Events

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music will present pianist Lucia Unrau of the Bluffton University music department, and clarinetist Sandra Jackson of the Eastern Michigan music department, in recital at the ONU Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building on Monday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

With recent performances at the Interlochen Arts Camp and with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, Unrau was also a soloist with the Detroit Chamber Orchestra.

Here's something for new year's eve. It's Bluffton's oldest annual tradition.

Click here for an Iconoclast View of this tradition.

Traditional new year's caroling/serenading of the two David Rothen hymns of pre-1840s will again be sung on Dec. 31, 2015, led by the Swiss Historical Society. 

Here's something for your holiday calendar. It's Bluffton's oldest annual tradition.

Traditional new year's caroling/serenading of the two David Rothen hymns of pre-1840s will again be sung on Dec. 31, 2015, led by the Swiss Historical Society. 

Carolers will start at the lobby of Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 West Elm St., Bluffton, at 5 p.m. Copies of the carols in English, German and as a pronouncing guide are attachments at the bottom of this story.

The December meeting of the Western Ohio Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association will take place on Tuesday, Dec, 15 in Van Wert.  

Members and guests will dine at Black Angus on Main, 282 E. Main Street (Lincoln Highway) at 6 p.m. 

At 7 p.m., a brief business meeting will take place. Afterwards, members and guests are welcome and encouraged to share personal Christmas memories, stories, special readings or decorations.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

Here's something for your holiday calendar. It's Bluffton's oldest annual tradition.

Traditional new year's caroling/serenading of the two David Rothen hymns of pre-1840s will again be sung on Dec. 31, 2015, led by the Swiss Historical Society. 

Carolers will start at the lobby of Mennonite Memorial Home, 410 West Elm St., Bluffton, at 5 p.m.

For new singers, if any of you wish to come 15 minutes earlier, that's a chance for new folks to familiarize themselves with words and tunes of these traditional two
Swiss-German songs. Music sheets will be furnished.

Ready for some Bingo?

Bluffton's Relay for Life quarter auction and Bingo takes place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium.

"We will be playing Bingo and bidding on gifts donated by several home businesses," said Lynda Best.

Gift donations are from:
• Thirty-one
• Pampered Chef
• Mary Kay
• Tastefully Simple
• Tupperware
• Sentsy
• Signature Home Styles
• Younique
• 3125 Walnut

Doors open and food will be available.

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