A Rally Point youth center summer camp chicken barbecue dinner benefit is planned from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday, April 22, at the Pandora Community Center.
The menu includes one-half chicken, prepared by John Schlumbohm, green beans, apple sauce, butter roll and drinks. Desserts are extra.
Tickets are $7 and area available in advance or at the door. Contact Ruth Herron, 419-296-5550 for tickets.
The Bluffton Community Preschool will hold an open house from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 24, in its home at First Mennonite Church, Bluffton.
The Preschool is a kindergarten-ready program for 3 and 4 year olds. Classes are held two or three days a week for 2.5 hours each session.
The open house enables parents and caregivers to meet the director, teachers, aids and current parents.
Students in next year's program must be 3 or 4 by Aug. 1, 2012. The school is in the lower level of First Mennonite Church, at the corner of Jackson and Church streets.
Wendell Miller announced his retirement from Bluffton schools at the end of this school year. His retirement is action required at Monday's Bluffton school board meeting.
In addition to Miller's retirement, the board will be voting on a host of contracts, including certified, non-certified and supplemental for the 2012-13 school year. Also on the agenda are next year's class fees.
The meeting is at 7:30 p.m., in the elementary media center. The nine-page agenda is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Members of the Bluffton University women's soccer team and volleyball team became community volunteers on Friday. Team members spread 16 loads of mulch at the village park playground. Here's a view of the volunteer work from high above the slide.
Was it an Easter Parade? No, the sea of flowery hats that looked like Easter of yesteryear was only one small portion of the array of hats on the heads of Maple Crest residents gathered on April 10 for the most recent "New Resident Welcome" event called "Hats Off to You!"
Which three Bluffton businesses would you miss if they closed their doors?
To celebrate Community Banking month in April and to draw attentio to the importance of local businesses, First National Bank employees are unanimously committed to supporting local, independent businesses by their support of something called The 3/50 Project.
