The Hancock Park District (HPD) is facilitating a series of self-guided float trips with HPD Shuttle Service this spring that cover approximately 37.6 miles of the Blanchard River from Blanchard River Nature Preserve to Blanchard Landing. Cost is $20 per person, per trip, and preregistration is necessary.
Pleasant View United Methodist Church, between Pandora and Bluffton, will host a soup benefit on Sunday, April 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The benefit will include numerous soups, breads and desserts. Individual servings of soup will be available for carry-out.
The benefit is for medical expenses for a student in Cory-Rawson elementary school who has Langerhans Cell Histiocytic (LCH), a disorder that causes the body too accumulate too many immature Langerhans cells that build up in certain parts of the body where they can form tumors or damage organs.
Beaverdam Church of Christ will hold a chicken and rib dinner from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday, May 13, at the church, 308 Main St., Beaverdam.
Tickets are $8 for a half chicken dinner and $11 for a rib dinner. Each meal includes baked potato, green beans, roll and butter. Desserts are available for $1 each and pop/coffee for 50 cents.
Dine in or drive-thru available. Contact any church member for tickets or call 419-643-4301.
Fran Core will discuss the book “Creatures of the Kingdom,” by James Michener during Monday's “Our Version of Adult Learning” (OVAL) offered by the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.
The book takes readers into the minds of animals and the world of nature.
The free program open to the public takes place at the Center, 132 N. Main St., at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, April 10.
The Addams Family musical comes to the middle school stage later this month in a show featuring every father's nightmare.
Performances are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 23. Kara Zink directs the performances. Tickets are on sale in the middle school office during school hours. Reserved seated at $10 and general admission tickets are $5.
The University of Findlay holds its 13th annual spring horse sale Saturday, April 29, at the University of Findlay’s Western Farm in the Dale Wilkinson Arena, 14700 U.S. Route 68 south of Findlay.
The sale draws buyers from multiple states, and presents prospects and finished horses for potential buyers. Demonstrations begin at 10 a.m. with the sale following at noon.
