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Creative Abilities Art Studio holds open house

Creative Abilities Art Studio, a part of the Pathfinder Community Supports Day Services program, is hosting a holiday open house and shopping event on Friday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Unique, hand-made pieces of art will be available to purchase during the open house with cash, check or charge.  

Items for sale include various sizes of acrylic and watercolor paintings, jewelry, home décor, quilts, decorative birdhouses, memo boards, wreaths, Christmas ornaments and décor and more.  

Just add glitter


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

Huntington City-Township Public Library Director Beka Lemons (left) advises Liam Rushing, 7 of Huntington on finishing glitter-filled sensory bottle as his mom, Megan Spencer, helps. Lemons led the workshop on Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Huntington branch, in which participants made bottles filled with glitter and different liquids to create soothing, mesmerizing patterns when shaken.  Ingredients could include a combination of glue, glitter, food coloring, vegetable oil, hair gel and corn syrup.

Castle receives ‘Dream’ award for achievement

Jessica Castle
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Jessica Castle, a sophomore art education major at Huntington University, is a recipient of a 2016 “Realizing the Dream” award.

The awards were presented to 31 first-generation students attending independent colleges and universities in Indiana. The honor recognizes sophomores selected by their colleges for outstanding achievement during their freshman year.

Huntington University’s online programming gets more accolades

Huntington University’s online programs have been ranked third in Indiana by AffordableCollegesOn line.org.

The website based its rankings on academic rigor, student support and affordability for online learning. Financial aid and student-teacher ratios were also considered.

The website analyzed information for all accredited public and not-for-profit institutions in the United States that offer at least three online bachelor degree programs and have an annual tuition fee of less than $25,000.

Evangelical United Methodist singers to offer ‘Tree of Light’ in honor of holiday season

Members of six churches are represented in the choir that will perform the Christmas musical “Tree of Light” on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, Dec. 8, 9 and 11 at Evangelical United Methodist Church.
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Evangelical United Methodist Church will present its annual Christmas musical on Thursday, Dec. 8, and Friday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

This year the choir will perform “Tree of Light,” created and arranged by Dale Mathews and Michael Frazier. The musical celebrates the birth of Jesus with exuberant praise and worship.

“Tree of Light” shows the spiritual symbolism in one of the world’s most recognizable symbols, the Christmas tree.

A friend of Alice


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Hanna Surfus (front, center) is surrounded by (from left) Maggi Hall, Izzy Harlan, Emma Grace Mounsey, Ellie Stephenson and Elizabeth Shape as they work together to create the caterpillar in Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland Jr.,” now being performed at the Pulse Opera House in downtown Warren. Shows take place this Friday and Saturday, Dec. 9 and 10, at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 4 p.m. For reservations, visit www.pulseoperahouse.org or leave a message at 375-7017.

On the same beat


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin.

The students in the Whole Notes class, taught by Denise Gilliland (left), sound out the rhythm on flash cards as part of their introduction to music and singing on Monday, Nov. 21, at the Heritage of Huntington. During the final class of the year, the children performed what they had learned for their parents and families and led them in a sing-along. Pictured (from left to right) are Madi Riggers, Katy Clampitt (back to camera), Caitlyn Bowers, Braden Johnston, Lilly Ayres and Kasen Johnston.

McKenzie’s Hope gets honor, check

Emily Adkins (left), of Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling, presents a check, toys and office supplies to Jessica Broyles, executive director of McKenzie’s Hope, onWednesday, Nov. 30. The donations represent contributions from Paul Davis’ clients. The company chose McKenzie’s Hope as its charity of the month for October.
Photo by Rebecca Sandlin

McKenzie’s Hope was recently chosen as the Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling charity of the month, receiving toys, office supplies and a check in the amount of $338.71.

Items included in the donation were copy paper, trash bags, hand sanitizer, pens and markers, as well as Hot Wheels cars and Play-Doh. These items help McKenzie’s Hope provide comfortable activities for children while at the center.

Curious pupils


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Teachers at Roanoke Elementary School recently chose students who most exhibit the life skill of curiosity. They are (front row, from left) Mason Dondjkowski, Benjamin Thurston and Jacob Hosler; (middle row, from left) Ella Perkins, Norman Wilkinson, Ben Augspurger, Kristen Plasterer, Owen Crago and Kennedy Zahm; and (back row, from left) Cohen Endsley, Georgia Denney, Alexis Nunemaker, Josie Mueller, Dylan Cissell, Breyden Black and Braianah Reed.

Shop with a Cop in its 17th year of helping out

Cops and kids and Christmas have become a mission for Sheriff Terry Stoffel.

This year, for the 17th year, Stoffel is organizing Shop with a Cop.

Some 40 youngsters, and maybe up to 50, will go shopping at Walmart the evening of Dec. 19, accompanied by a like number of law enforcement officers — county and city officers, town marshals, Indiana State Police troopers, conservation officers and anyone else who wants to join in.

The 40 to 50 kids who will go shopping with a cop this Christmas has grown from just six or seven kids the first year, Stoffel says.

A warm donation


Photo by Rebecca Sandlin

Employees at the Lassus Brothers Handy Dandy store in Roanoke, along with representatives of the Roanoke Lions Club and Roanoke Elementary School, celebrate a donation of 452 sets of winter hats and gloves — one for each member of the Roanoke Elementary School student body.