A volunteer is needed at the Mennonite Memorial Home to assist residents to the in-house beauty shop on Tuesday mornings, according to Mary Ann Ring, MMH volunteer coordinator.
Volunteering begins at 8:30 a.m. The volunteer will take direction from the beautician and the volunteer coordinator and must be able to push a wheelchair.
This position begins Tuesday, Dec. 6. If you would like to help MMH residents, please call Ring at 419-358-1015.
The December employee of the month for Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio is Emily Koogler.
Emily Koogler of Bluffton, is the Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio employee of the month for December.
Koogler is a licensed social worker at the Mennonite Memorial Home for almost five years. She is co-facilitator of the Alzheimer's support group and has recently started a grief support group for the residents at MHCO.
She lives here in Bluffton with her husband, Aaron, and their son, Titus. In her spare time, Emily coaches junior high cheerleading.
A benefit spaghetti dinner for Butch Sanders and his wife, Debb, will take place from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 17, at The Bluffton Sportsmen's Club depot on Spring Street.
Butch has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer from prolonged acid reflux. Butch and Debb are parents of Dee Helms, Chad Sanders, Nikki Dunifon, and Thad and Ryan Wingfield.
Christmas For Kids will be held at Trinity Lutheran School, 105 Allen Street, Jenera, on Saturday, Dec, 3 from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
The program will provide children in Pre-school through 4th grade a special opportunity to hear the real message of Christmas, along with Christmas crafts, music, refreshments and fun.
Here's a touching holiday story that might someday rank right up there with Frosty the Snowman, It's a Wonderful Life and Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.
We suggest you sit back, grab a bag of popcorn, and maybe a handkerchief. Here's a Christmas story like no other, dreamed up and filmed in Bluffton.
We understand this is the third annual film of its type. For more details on this, ask the filmmaker.
Without further introduction we bring you this Christmas love affair...
Three area dulcimer players and groups will take the stage at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the third floor of the Blufftyon town hall for concert of Christmas music.
Appalachian Mountain dulcimers will celebrate Christmas, not only as they've been played in the past, but as they are interpreted and dynamically re-created today.
