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Friday, Sept 3, 2010
Garno’s Sports and Spiritswill have a DJ playing from 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
Spuds will have karaoke with Rooster at 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010
Jilli’s Pub will have Mantra Karaoke with Jake at 9:00 p.m.
Garno’s Sports and Spiritswill have a DJ playing from 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
Chicken Dinners!
This year one of the area baseball teams will be selling chicken dinners. Please support this group of fine young baseball players from the community with their fundraiser. These boys are trying to raise money to continue to have the opportunity to improve their skills and play against teams from around the Tri-State Area. They will get the chance to play against teams from Michigan and Ohio as well as Indiana. Your support would be greatly appreciated and would help allow the boys to reach their goals. The large portion chicken dinners provided by Rack & Helen's will come with baked beans and coleslaw for $8.00. The dinners will be available for pick-up Saturday, September 11th from 10:00-1:00 in the West parking lot of Central Lutheran School. Pre-sale dinners can be purchased Saturday, August 28th and Saturday, September 4th at Central Lutheran School at the baseball table to the south of the football concession stand from 9:00-12:00. All pre-sale dinner buyers will be entered into a drawing to win 1 of 5 one-hour sessions for the batting cages at the new Diamond Baseball & Softball Academy (Formerly Extra Innings). The baseball boys will also be selling pre-sale dinners. You can also contact Tim Tracey at 710-1956 with pre-sale requests. Batting cage winners will be posted at the pick-up site on September 11th. Only pre-sale dinners will be eligible for the drawing. You can also purchase dinners Saturday, September 11th from 10:00-1:00 at Central Lutheran School's west parking lot. Please contact Tim Tracey at 710-1956 or Ty Luginbill at 409-2537 with any questions.
THE CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES RETURN TO THE NPAC TO SERVE UP AN ALL-NEW CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
And out of the basement shall come a Church Basement program of good tidings, great humor and joy! The ladies are serving it up again. This time around it’s an all-new holiday show. Troupe America, Inc., the Producer of the nationally acclaimed musical comedy Church Basement Ladies opens the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio holiday season with a new musical comedy Away in the Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas on November 23 with two shows at 2 pm and 7:30 pm in Van Wert, Ohio.
Away in the Basement takes us back to 1959 and the day of the Sunday School Christmas Program. In the midst of holiday preparations and sprinklings of love in the air, the ladies in their witty, down-to-earth style are creating their own memories from past and present Christmases.. Content to do things the way they have always been done yet pondering new ideas, the reality of everyday life hits home as they plan the Sunday School Christmas Program. As the children rehearse up in the sanctuary, several of the ladies of the kitchen are finishing up the treat bags filled with apples, peanuts and ribbon candy while the others put the final touches on the nativity pieces. As they mend old bathrobe costumes, discuss the politics of who’s going to play the various roles, little do the ladies know what surprises are in store for them. Known for their hilarious antics and subtle charm, they are once again called upon to step in and save the day!
In developing an all-new holiday show, Away in the Basement: A Church Basement
Ladies Christmas is the third installment in the highly successful production of the musical comedy Church Basement Ladies . Executive Producer Curt Wollan’s creative team includes the talents of composer/songwriter Drew Jansen, who wrote the original score and lyrics for Church Basement Ladies and co-wrote the music and lyrics for the sequel Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping . Sketch comedy writer and head writer for the Medora Musical , Greta Grosch, who wrote the sequel Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping developed the holiday script. Away in the Basement is directed by Curt Wollan, choreographed by Wendy Short Hays with set design by Jared Grohs, lighting design by Scott Herbst, sound design by Mark Brodin, costume design by Katrina Benedict and musical direction by Drew Jansen.
All three installments of the musical comedy Church Basement Ladies are Inspired by the books of author/humorists Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson including the bestseller Growing Up Lutheran . The original production opened at the Plymouth Playhouse in September 2005 and performed to 250,000 patrons in it’s two and a half year run. Its sequel, Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping opened March 2008. Audiences instantly fell in love with the Church Basement Ladies and it has grown to be the most successful show produced both locally and nationally by Troupe America in its twenty-three year history. The original version of Church Basement Ladies has toured extensively in the last two years. In 2007, the show toured to 58 cities and 11 states across the country including a three month run at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, and was produced by the nationally acclaimed New Theater Restaurant in Kansas City starring William Christopher, known for playing Father Mulcahy on television’s M*A*S*H, as Pastor.
Away in the Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas tickets go on sale Wednesday, September 1 at noon at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center box office located at 10700 State Route 118 South, Van Wert, Ohio or by phone at 419.238.NPAC (6722). Tickets are $20-$40. Tickets are also available for both shows online at www.npacvw.org . Group rates are available through the box office.
The NPAC will be at the Van Wert County Fair all weekend with information and tickets available at their booth in the commercial building. The box office, located at the NPAC, will be closed Monday and Tuesday, September 6th & 7th so come see us at the Van Wert County Fair those days. The box office will reopen for normal business hours, noon – 4 pm on Wednesday. For more information, visit our website at www.npacvw.org or find us on facebook.
The New Haven High School class of 1942 will have its reunion at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 18 at the American Legion Post 330, 330 Entrance Drive, New Haven. The classes of 1941 and 1943 are also invited to attend. For information, call 639-3132.
Visit Rack & Helens Bar & Grill (525 Broadway Street)... and be sure to sign up for their Loyalty Rewards card. 260-749-5396