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The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce bought a "Sunny Day" card from Mother Nature. That means that the 40th annual Bluffton Arts and Crafts Show will have sunny weather on Saturday, May 21.

This year's show includes over 60 crafters and Bluffton businesses displaying their products. Show hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Main Street between the town hall and the Bluffton Post Office.

Here's the line up for this year's event, in addition to craft booths:

Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora, recently celebrated National Nursing Home Week, according to Joy Reichenbach, administrator.

Community Markets partnered with Food For All to run a holiday season point-of-purchase fundraiser from Nov. 1, 2010 - Jan. 3, 2011.

The fundraiser featured boards stocked with $1, $3 and $5 donation coupons at each checkout stand. Community Markets in Bluffton selected Bluffton Community Food Assistance to be the beneficiary of the Food For All fundraiser this year.

Just when you thought you were out of playing cards, the Bluffton Senior Center cuts you a new deck.

As a sesquicentennial fund raiser, the Center this week released a set of playing cards with historic photos of Bluffton on the faces.

Tonya Meyer, Center director, said, "There are 52 different photos of Bluffton on the faces of the cards. The photos show Bluffton through the years with pictures of churches, downtown buildings, annual events and once-in-a lifetime celebrations.

Apollo Career Center will award a new car to one lucky student with perfect attendance.

The event takes place, Wednesday, May 25 at approximately 9:40 a.m., in the Apollo Commons. It is a reverse drawing of sorts, and at the end two students will each be handed a set of keys.

One set will start the car, and the runner-up receives a new computer. Several businesses businesses donated prizes to this year's perfect attendees.

Bluffton's next American Red Cross blood drive is from noon to 6 p.m., Thursday, June 2, at St. Mary's Catholic Church. 160 N. Spring St., Bluffton.

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