Could your start-up business use $500, $1,000 or $4,000 cash to assist in your business launch?
Could your currently-operating Bluffton business use $1,000 or several “in-kind” services to improve your already existing business?
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs wants to help start-ups and existing businesses. Business owners an the public are invited to an open house from 1 to 4:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, in BCE’s new location at 110 S. Main St., Bluffton.
The offices are in the Citizens National Bank building and have an entrance directly to Main Street.
The Lima Building and Construction Trades hosts its annual holiday luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11, in the City Club, 114 S. Main St., Lima.
Each year the Trades holds this party as a way to say thank you to the industry owners and managers, contractors and members of the public who employ their craftsmen.
Riley Creek United Methodist Church invites the community to its annual Christmas Carol Sing on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature congregational singing of many traditional carols, as well as readings from Scripture about Jesus’ birth, performances by the Pandora United Methodist Church Choir, Ottawa Sts. Peter and Paul Choir, other musicians, and a candle lighting ceremony.
Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers and University Chorale will headline “A Festival of Lessons and Carols,” the university’s Christmas choral concert, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for senior citizens. They are available online, at http://tickets.bluffton.edu, or in person at the Marbeck Center information desk.
Bluffton's Relay for Life quarter auction and Bingo takes place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium.
"We will be playing Bingo and bidding on gifts donated by several home businesses," said Lynda Best.
Gift donations are from:
• Thirty-one
• Pampered Chef
• Mary Kay
• Tastefully Simple
• Tupperware
• Sentsy
• Signature Home Styles
• Younique
• 3125 Walnut
Several Bluffton area youth participated in a Nov. 21 swim meet, swimming with the Lima YMCA Barracudas swim team, in a competititon with the Putnam County Y.
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