Bridge Bereavement Services will offer a workshop for understanding grief on Monday, April 2, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Beckett Meeting Room at Blanchard Valley Hospital. The event is for individuals 18 years of age and older and is open to the public.
This three-hour workshop will help participants learn more about the grief process including how to identify essential physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual actions that will aid in healing.
Our construct worker is high above the court at the Bluffton University health and fitness center under construction this spring. A 300 mm lens helps in this photo exercise.
Megan M. Watkins, daughter of Bill and Louise Watkins of Bluffton, has married Bryan S. Given of Columbus, Ohio.
They wed at Bexley United Methodist Church on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The couple currently reside in Lewisville, Texas.
Megan is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center in Mansfield, Texas, and Bryan is a Support and Training Manager at GeoShack in Farmers Branch, Texas.
The Pandora United Methodist Church Choir will be present the Easter Cantata, "Amazing Grace: Ready to Sing Easter!" written by Sue Smith and Russell Mauldin on Sunday, April 1, at 9:30 a.m. during the worship service.
The church service and refreshments in the fellowship hall afterward are open to the public. The choir is directed by Pat Basinger and accompanied by Chris Meyer.
The church is located on State Route 12 at 108 E. Washington St. in Pandora. The Rev. Duane Kemerley is the pastor.
The Pandora United Methodist Church will host a free community meal Wednesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E Washinton Street, Pandora.
The following meal will be served: spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert, coffee and punch.
Because of the importance given to trees in the village, the Arbor Day Foundation this week designated Bluffton as a Tree City USA. This is the 20th year the village received the designation, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
One of the significant players behind the scenes in the Tree City designation is the Bluffton Tree Commission.
