Want to make your own maple syrup? It's simple. Just wait until February when it's below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. That weather combination causes sap to run in maple trees.
It's lots more complicated than that, of course, but it's certainly satisfying for a guy with a lot of patience and lots of maple trees. Oh, and it takes lots of maple sap: 50 gallons of sap boils down to one gallon of maple syrup.
Tickets are now on sale for this year's Bluffton Music Boosters chicken barbecue and shrimp dinner planned Friday, March 23, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. (or sell out) at the middle school cafetorium.
Pre-ticket sales are underway at $6.50 per ticket ($7 after March 16). Tickets are available at Greg's Pharmacy and at the middle school and high school offices. This year's meal includes one-half chicken (or seven pieces of shrimp), potato salad, applesauce, dinner roll and a drink.
Bluffton University President James Harder speaks during the memorial service on the fifth anniversary of the Bluffton University baseball accident. Click for a video.
Ten Thousand Villages wants Icon viewers to start thinking "spring." From Monday, March 5, through Monday, March 19, the shop will offer $5 off any planter priced at $25 or more.
The store at 115 S. Main St., Bluffton has the following hours:
Store hours are:
Monday-Wednesday 9:00-5:00
Thursday 1:00-5:00
Friday-Saturday 9:00-5:00
Call Ten Thousand Villages at (419)358-7233 for more information.
Cory-Rawson High School will present "The Idi-Odyssey," by Burton Bumgarner, at 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 22 and 23, in the school auditorium.
The play is called "an enjoyable spoof of 'The Odyssey,' which will delight young and old.
With a cast of over 35 students the action never stops. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are available in advance at the superintendent's office or at the door the night of the performances.
