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This could include:
• Monthly club meetings
• Support group meetings
• Church events
• School group meetings
• Chicken barbecues - ice cream socials
* Saghetti dinners - pancake breakfasts
• Car washes - any fundraiser
• Concerts
• Golf outings
• You name it!

Tickets for Jan. 28 performance now on sale

Popular entertainer Ben Vereen will perform to The Freed Center, Biggs Theatre on the Ohio Northern University campus in one performance at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28. Tickets are now on sale in Freed Center box office.

Few entertainers today are as accomplished or as versatile as Vereen. His  performances on stage and screen transcend time and have been woven into the fabric of our country’s artistic legacy.

On Broadway, Vereen has appeared in Wicked, Fosse, I’m Not Rappaport, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Grind, Jelly’s Last Jam and A Christmas Carol.

Andi Baumgartner, Bluffton University art faculty member, one of jury judges

The ArtSpace/Lima Photography Club will present its Annual Juried Exhibit from Jan. 6 through Feb. 11, in The Ellen Nelson Gallery at ArtSpace/Lima. For the 2017 exhibit, 86 artists from a 100-mile radius around Lima entered 222 photographs, 94 of which were accepted into the show.
 
Jurors for the exhibit were: Jordan Knepper, executive director of the Piqua Arts Council, and Andi Baumgartner, Assistant Professor of art at Bluffton University.
 

Includes dinner and a play with a Christmas theme

The Inn at ONU, Ada, will present a dinner theatre titled "Greetings," written by Tom Dudzick and performed by the Northwest Ohio Theatre Fraternal Association. There will be two performances.

The show tells of a family who lost their Christmas joy and is visited by an ancient, wise, and witty spirit who is set upon healing them.

The dinner theatre is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 16 and Saturday, Dec. 17. The buffet begins at 6:30 p.m. with the show at 8 p.m.

The cost is $50 per person, $45 per person for groups. Call 419-772-2500 for reservations.

 

It's the elementary Christmas concert - the program is in this story

There's "Holly, Jolly Christmas" and "Christmas at our School," sung by the mass choir of all Bluffton elementary students.

From there, you'll hear a selection of familiar and new carols performed by Kindergarteners through fifth graders.

It's at this year's Bluffton elementary Christmas concert at 1:30 p.m. (doors open at 12:30 p.m.) at the Bluffton High School gym.

For a sneak peek at this year's concert program, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Wrap It-Up Luncheons and Mind-Body-And-Spirit Tea

The Inn at Ohio Northern University offers two wrap it-up luncheons and one mind-body-and-spirit tea this month.

Here are the details:

Wrap It-Up Luncheon
Saturday, Dec. 10, and Saturday, Dec. 17
11 a.m. to 1 p .m.

Menu includes Christmas casserole with holiday salad and dessert while Santa’s elves wrap up three of your gifts.

Mind-Body-And-Spirit Tea
Sunday, Dec. 18
2 to 4 p.m.

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