Trinity Lutheran School’s graduation will be held on Sunday, May 31, during the 10:30 a.m. service at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera. Pre-service music will be by members of the graduating class. Wesley Below is the class speaker. The class members include Wesley Lane Below, James Steven John Miles, Amelia Grace Mitchell, Logan Nicholas Stuckey and Korey Lynn Strahm. The students in kindergarten through eighth grade will sing.
There will be a regular service at 8 a.m. The public is welcome and the church is handicapped accessible.
Five members of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association turn 90 in June. Each receives a lifetime membership in the association presented during the Monday, June 8, monthly potluck.
The members are Wayne Shafer, Treva Shafer, Anne Buller, Catherine Bish and Geraldine Basinger DeMeo.
Several additional events take place at the center in June. Open the attachment at the bottom of this story to view the June center newsletter.
AEP meteorologists anticipate severe thunderstorms containing damaging winds the Icon readership area later today. Here's AEP's announcement:
A cold front in Illinois will move into I&M Power just as an upper-level disturbance (now over Missouri) arrives. Ample sunshine & humidity will generate moderate instability by afternoon as temperatures reach the low-mid 80s.
Expect a broken line of severe storms to organize over Indiana midday...then cross eastern I&M Power (Ft. Wayne, Muncie) early this afternoon.
The Blanchard River Watershed Partnership is in the application stage of a $29,930 grant, which if received, will benefit the Middle Riley Creek watershed.
The $29,930 grant, called a Great Lakes Basin mini-grant, is for cost sharing with farmers who use cover crops and conservation tillage in the Middle Riley Creek watershed, according to Phil Martin, watershed director.
That announcement and other news items concerning the BRWP are in the district’s spring newsletter. A copy of the newsletter is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
“Pockets and Posies” was the title of the Maple Crest Ladies’ Tea held Mother's Day weekend.
“Pockets” stood for the pockets found on many aprons, once-upon-a-time, when aprons were needed for everything from carrying in fresh apples from the orchard to wiping ones brow after a day of canning.
The speaker, Pat Danner, from Fostoria, arrived in her mother’s apron and expounded upon all the ways that the apron had been used. Maple Crest elders and their guests, as well as the servers for the day, also came in aprons, many of which had special significance.
