Baby, it's "really" cold outside. Over the seven-day period from Jan. 18 to 24 the only day the thermometer crept above freezing was on the 18th. Otherwise, we've survivied a week of temperatures in the territory where we fear to tread.
Here's the seven-day report from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
On Jan. 22, the U.S. Postal Service issueed the fourth of 12 stamps in its Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Rabbit begins on Feb. 3, 2011, and ends on Jan. 22, 2012.
On Jan. 27 a stamp recognizing the 150th anniversary of Kansas statehood will be issued.
Over 100 items make up this year's Bluffton Hospital Auxiliary Auction. The silent auction hours are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 24-26, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, Jan. 27, from 8 a.m. to noon.
Items are on display in the second floor conference room at the hospital, according to Diane Stratton, auxiliary president.
Bluffton University's Grace Albrecht Gallery will host two events Friday, Jan. 28, with painter Andre' Martinez Reed, whose exhibition of oil paintings, "Etudes in Liberation on Paper: Hands, Heart, Mind and Rhythm," is now on display in the gallery.
Reed, director of the Henry Gregg Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., will present a painting demonstration and gallery talk from 8-9:50 a.m. that day.
