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Tammy Warnecke

Tammy has been in the Housekeeping Department of the Mennonite Memorial Home for five years. In the past and again this past year, she has been recognized by residents as a Facility Star.

Her supervisor says, "She is dependable, caring, and she goes out of her way to help others. She is a team leader, and her peers appreciate her." Tammy lives in Ottawa and is anticipating the arrival of twin grandchildren in July. Congratulations Tammy!

Seventy Bluffton merchants are participating in a raffle to help the food pantry and celebrate our Sesquicentennial. Participating merchants will have a poster at their place of business.

Tickets will be issued one per item donated for the Food Pantry. Bring a donation for the food pantry, get one ticket for each item (for example, five items gets you five tickets).

Tickets are available during June at many events in Bluffton: the Car Show, Farmer's Market, Relay For Life, and numerous other events.

The final Bluffton Middle School honor roll of the 2010-11 season is now available as an attachment at the bottom of this story.

A welcomed break from spring showers this week. Here's the past six day weather report from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

Time to mow

John Marshall mows the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn. While sunny days are here now, just a week ago, lawn mowing was unthinkable.

The Bluffton Presbyterian Church will have a percussion ensemble performing at the Pentecost service, June 12th at 10:30 a.m. Tanya Best will direct the large ensemble of church members and friends playing the last movement of David Gillingham^aEURTMs "Liturgical Music for Percussion Ensemble".

The piece quotes "Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" (John Wesley 1739). Instrumentation includes crotales (sometimes called "antique cymbals"), xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, bells, high-hat, triangle, tambourine, chimes, congas, tom-toms and piano.

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