The Bluffton Public Library will host the following events and activities during the week of April 14-19. For further details and dates, visit www.blufftonpubliclibrary.org/library-events/
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, has announced Holy Thursday, Good Friday and two Easter day services.
The Holy Thursday service takes place at 7:00 p.m. on April 17. The theme is "Renewed by the Gospel." The Bible readings are Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 10:15-25; Luke 22:7-20, and Psalm 51:10-13. The Chori will sing "Eat this Bread" and the hymns are: "Renew Me, O Eternal LIght; It was a Dark and Dismal Night; Create in Me a Clean Heart; Lord Jesus Christ, You Have Prepared; The Death of Jesus Christ, Our Lord; and O Lord, We Praise You."
That sound was the Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, tornado.
At 9:45 p.m., it ripped across the rural Richland and Orange Township landscape. It was like no other natural disaster experienced prior or since then in this community.
Had the tornado’s path been one mile north it would have struck the Village of Bluffton. Had it been 600 feet farther north it would have hit 32 planes parked at the Bluffton Airport.
