The chorus for Bluffton University's spring Bach Festival will rehearse at 7 p.m. Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 10, in the Gilliom Room of Mosiman Hall on campus. This year's performance will feature Haydn's "Mass in Time of War." Rehearsals will continue until the festival performance at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The first community meal of 2012 is hosted by St. Mary's Catholic Church. The meal is at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 5, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center. The dinner is free and open to the public, sponsored by the Bluffton Inter Church Board.
The menu follows:
Beef vegetable soup
Chicken noodle soup
Ham and bean soup
rolls and butter
cookies and brownies
coffee and punch
Ben Reineke won the first-ever Bluffton Icon NFL weekly football contest, which concluded this week. Reineke scored 70 points in the contest to edge out runner-up Dan Smith.
2011 wasn't a good year for found money, at least in comparison to the last four years. Guess the tanked economy made people more careful about picking up coins when they dropped them on the street.
Ever since some friends admitted that they don't allow themselves to end their daily walk until they've found at least one penny, we've adhered to the same rule. Most of the time, it works out. Sometimes, we have to give up and come home empty-handed.
According to her parents, Jim and Lisa McLaughlin, Courtney placed first in Cold Read, second in TV Commercial and second in Singing in her age group while in Orlando.
