It’s a new year and the Bluffton Senior Center is ready with lots of programming.
Here’s what’s on January’s Center calendar. An attachment below lists all items at the Center next month.
January’s dinner meeting is at noon, Monday, Jan. 8. The program includes photos of the Grand Canyon and Red Rocks trip by the Center earlier this year.
Louise Hampton is the volunteer of the year. The centerboard has chosen Louise, who served at the center’s librarian for over five years.
Four holiday basketball tournaments involving 16 games take place this weekend with Bluffton University men, Bluffton University women, Bluffton High School boys' varsity and Bluffton High School boys' junior varsity playing various opponents.
The schedules follow:
Bluffton University Men’s McDonald’s Tourney
Friday, Dec. 29
2 p.m. - Illinois College vs. Pitt-Greensburg
7 p.m. – Bluffton vs. OSU-Lima
Christmas may be behind us, but the Icon is still looking at downtown Bluffton's attractive holiday window display. Et Cetera shop always please holiday shoppers.
According to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, the area had 3.2 inches of snow on Dec. 23. Add to that 2.3 inches on Christmas eve, for 5.5 inches.
The temperatures hovered between 35 and 20 degrees on those two days, but on Christmas the freezer door opened and the high was 20 degrees and the low was 8.
An auction of antique and collectibles of Helen and the late Gerald Brooks, Bluffton, is scheduled at The Old Barn Auction, State Route 224, Findlay, this weekend.
A sale preview is Friday, Dec. 29, starting at 5 p.m. The auction starts at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 30.
A listing of auction items is on the attachment at the bottom of this story.
