Aaron Antrim customarily views Bluffton from several hundred feet in the air.
On Saturday, he’ll see it from ground level.
Antrim is this year’s Blaze of Lights parade marshal. He is also the lead pilot for Mercy Life Flight 3, based at the Bluffton Airport.
As parade marshal, Antrim will ride in one of the lead vehicles in Saturday’s 5 p.m. Blaze parade. The 1998 Bluffton University graduate is married to Bluffton native Rachel Hilty, a 1996 Bluffton High School grad. The couple lives on Grismore Road with their three sons, Asher, Eden and Levi.
The Icon, in cooperation with Shannon Theatre, is happy to launch this year's Blaze on Friday afternoon.
Bluffton Icon sponsors two free showings of "It's a Wonderful Life," the 1946 classic featuring the all-star cast of James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore at the Shannon Theatre.
The free showings are at 1:30 and 4 p.m. The showings are also part of the Shannon Theatre's Customer Appreciation Weekend.
One popular group and two new performers will entertain the Blaze of Lights crowd on Saturday in downtown Bluffton. The performance stage is at the corner of Main and Cherry streets.
Once the Blaze parade ends – estimated to end about 6 p.m. – musical entertainment takes the Blaze stage until this year’s “switch hitter” turns on the Ream holiday folk art light display.
Saturday’s entertainment follows:
• Bluffton High School show choir, directed by Kara Zink. This group is a popular Blaze entertainer year after year.
Saturday's 31st annual Blaze of Lights offers several opportunities to "eat locally" according to the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. Here's a lists of businesses offering food:
Bluffton Lions Club Foundation: Chicken barbecue, 4-7 p.m. Drive up behind the Dollar Store parking lot. Eat in at tables on the lower level of Bluffton Presbyterian Church. See a Lions member for tickets or call Greg Denecker at 419-358-5901.
That’s the amount of rain recorded by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer on Saturday, Nov. 18. It caused flooding in Bluffton, which included closing of East College Avenue and Bentley Road north of Bluffton.
The photos here show the area of the old baseball diamond field below Musselman Library on campus.
