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Nostalgia Night at Concordia Jan. 21
On Jan. 21 at Concordia’s boys’ basketball game at home against Snider, the Concordia Alumni Association will honor past recipients of the Excellence in Teaching Award.
Past recipients of the award will be on hand to greet current and former students beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium lobby. Refreshments will be available. The event is open and free to the public.
For more information call Bill Gray at 260-223-4464 or email: bgray@clhscadets.com.
Concordia High School is lcoated at 1601 St. Joe River Drive in Fort Wayne.

Pancake & Sausage Breakfast Jan. 22
Petroleum United Methodist Church will host a Pancake/Sausage Breakfast Saturday, Jan. 22 from 7 to 11 a.m.
We invite all to come and fellowship and enjoy a great meal. Free will offering.
All proceeds go to Mission Committee of church to support our hurting friends. (Pd Advt.)

Opera offers free preview Jan. 22
Indianapolis Opera announces this year’s children’s opera, Fight for the Future: Johnny Appleseed v. Paul Bunyan. The Opera will offer a free preview of this fully staged opera, featuring sets, costumes and the Opera’s professional artists of the Indianapolis Opera Ensemble Saturday, Jan. 22 at 10:30 a.m. at Basile Opera Center, 4011 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis.
The event is free for children in grades kindergarten through sixth. The length of the show is 45 minutes.
The opera is about Mother Earth. She is worried and she depends on people to take care of her. Johnny Appleseed gets it right, but his dreams of a green earth are threatened to be cut down by the axe-wielding, forest-chopping Paul Bunyan. Bunyan, the original macho man, takes and takes some more, without a thought for the consequences of his actions.
Fast forward to the future, the great-great-great grandsons of these American legends are still battling as Big Business Bunyan continues his family’s tradition of waste and greed. Even Snow White and Rip Van Winkle get in on the action as they awaken from their years of slumber to a world of shopping malls and Starbucks.
For more information about this and other upcoming performances visit www.indyopera.org.

Red Cross
Bloodmobile Jan. 24
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the South Adams Senior Center Tuesday, Jan. 24 from noon to 6 p.m. Call 260-589-8877 for more information.

Ribbon Cutting for newest exhibit at Science Central
Jan. 22
A ribbon cutting will be held at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22 at Science Central to welcome it's newest temporary exhibition entitled “Our Weakening Web: The Story of Extinction.”
The exhibit will be open through May 29 at the lower level in the Traveling Exhibit Gallery.
It will highlight how threads of the web have been destroyed in the past; how threads are being weakened today and that anyone can help repair our weakening web. There will be life-size, hand-crafted dioramas that feature scenes of the past to the present.
For more information call 260-424-2400 or log onto: www.sciencecentral.org.

Salamonie Reservoir hosting storytelling workshop, Jan. 29
A storytelling workshop to help boost your ability to spin a tale will be offered at the Salamonie Interpretive Center, Jan. 29 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Storyteller Doyne Carson will go over the basics of telling a story and captivating an audience. The event begins with Carson demonstrating such speaking tools as pitch, pause, pacing, tone, use of story maps and other useful storytelling tools.
In the afternoon, participants will have the opportunity to tell a short story and gain some feedback and helpful tips.
A light lunch will be included. Registration is required. Call (260) 468-2127 to register.

Pancake and
sausage brunch at Hoagland Jan. 30
Members of Hoagland Area Advancement Association will sponsor a Pancake and Sausage Brunch Sunday, Jan. 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hoagland Pavilion. Thrivent will match the funds raised that day.
Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children age six to 12 and free for those ages five and younger.
The meal will include fresh whole hog sausage, all-you-can-eat pancakes and drinks. Carry-out will be available. For more information log onto: www.hoaglandin.com.

Deadline Feb. 1
for quarterly senior citizens’ dinner
New Hope Lutheran Church, on the south edge of Ossian, will again host its quarterly Senior Citizens’ Dinner (for anyone in the community age 55 or better) on Thursday, Feb. 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. There will be a sing-a-long with Ed Higgins, great entertainment by George Berger. A free will offering dinner will be served by the ladies of New Hope. RSVP to 622-7954 by Tuesday, Feb. 1. (1/18)

North Adams
Adult Ed/GED
Registration &
Orientation
Feb. 1 & 2 in Bluffton
A new registration/orientation process is in place for all North Adams Adult Ed/GED classes. Interested students will complete a two-day registration/orientation class before they can enter into a regular class. The following are the registration/orientation dates and times.
Registration/orientation for the North Adams Adult Education/GED classes held in Decatur or Geneva will be Jan. 25 and 26 at the Decatur Work One Office. The registration/orientation classes will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. and those interested must attend both days.
Registration/orientation for the North Adams Adult Education/GED classes held in Bluffton will be on February 1and 2 at the Bluffton Work One Office. The registration/orientation classes will be held from 2 pm to 6 pm and those interested must attend both days.
All students must complete the registration/orientation classes – walk-in students will not be accepted. Classes are for individuals who are 17 years of age and older and not enrolled in school.
To sign up for the registration/orientation and for information on class dates and times, please call Jeannie Smith at 724-7121 # 4.