The holiday season is sliding to an end and things will get back to normal any minute now. But until then, you can embrace one last tradition, one last thing to bind us to each other as we look ahead to the new year.
How about we drop something?
The most famous drop in the United States is the dropping of the New Year's ball in Times Square, New York City. Thousands gather to watch the ball make its one-minute descent, arriving exactly at midnight.
he Bluffton University women’s basketball team fell to Baldwin-Wallace at the Hope College Flying Dutch Holiday Tournament on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. The Beavers dipped to 5-5, while Baldwin-Wallace improved to 5-5.
As some of the old timers tell it, Greg Conkling showed up here like a lost kitten sometime around 1986. He hung around until we got used to him and permitted him to stay.
At least, that’s the way I heard it. Maybe you heard differently.
The next meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club will take place Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 12 p.m. at Maple Crest.
This lunchtime meeting will feature Lion Dr. Bob Goulding as the guest speaker. Dr. Goulding, a Toledo optomitrist, long-time Lion involved with Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation, and civil war history buff will speak on “Johnson’s Island civil war prison”.
If members wish to reserve a meal, please go to [email protected] by Wednesday, Jan. 2 to submit a reservation.
New Year serenaders are invited to meet at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31 at Mennonite Memorial Home 410 W. Elm St., Bluffton, according to Dick Jordan. The event is an annual tradition encouraged by the Swiss Community Historical Society.
Warmup for singers at 4:45 p.m. for those desiring it. Following serenading at MMH, singers will go to Maple Crest at 6:30 p.m. where they will sing at Maple Crest's new year's eve party.
The end of the year is a time ripe for looking back in all sorts of ways. The favorites in movies and television are one of those ways. I took a look at movies and television in 2012. How do your opinions compare?
Movies
For sheer box office force, the top ten movies of 2012 leaned heavily towards comic book heroes, with adolescent fantasy novels and big-screen animation making up most all the rest.
According to Box Office Mojo the top grossing movies of 2012 were:
