This year the Bluffton Senior Citizens - Bluffton Lions Club Foundation pancake and sausage breakfast has moved to the arts and crafts show weekend. The breakfast is from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, May 13, at the Senior Center, 132 N. Main St. This is the 35th annual breakfast.
The meal includes all the pancakes you can eat, whole hog sausage, applesauce and coffee, tea, milk or juice drink. Pre-sale tickets are $6 and can be purchased from any Lion’s Club member or the Bluffton Senior Center.
Bluffton University will host the annual Riley Creek Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 22, in the Sommer Center.
Open to the public, the festival will feature block-party-style events including:
• family-friendly inflatables,
• three live musical acts,
• games hosted by student organizations
• Rubber Duck Race on Riley Creek
Photos by Jamie Nygaard
Of course, there's a Bluffton boys' and girls' junior high track sqaud.
By the looks of things, as these young athletes advance the future looks bright for BHS varsity track. Jamie Nygaard attended last week's junior high meet at Liberty Benton and shares these photos. Brandie Stackhouse is the junior high coach.
Olivia Matthews, Bluffton sixth grader, provided music during the breakfast portion of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce April 14 meeting. She is a student at Krysti's Music Studio and is the daughter of Brendon and Renee Matthews.
Bluffton resident, Joanna Gratz, is now a partner with Trades of Hope, a mission-based company, as a Compassionate Entrepreneur (CE).
Trades of Hope is a fair-trade certified company that empowers women around the world out of abuse, trafficking, and extreme poverty by creating sustainable business opportunities for them.
