Bluffton University's Peace Education and Action Community Endeavor (PEACE) Club and university senior Maggie Rose Stover, an intern for the Bluffton Fair Trade Task Force, will show the film "The Dark Side of Chocolate" at 9 p.m. tonight (April 20) in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The screening is free and open to the public.
The 45-minute documentary is about the cocoa supply chain in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, and the chocolate produced by children there.
Complete agenda is available as an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton teachers agreed to freeze their base salaries for three years. The action took place at the April Bluffton school board meeting on Monday. In addition, teachers agreed to not take step increases in 2011-12.
Cellular Central, Inc./Verizon Wireless had a new home. The North Main Street business has relocated in a portion of the former Movie Gallery at 142 E. Jefferson St. The move took place last week.
The store is part of a 43-store chain in Ohio. Its home office is in Toledo. Jimmy Grose of Findlay is the store manager, serving in his third year in that position. Cellular Central had operated in Bluffton for the past six years.
Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. It's April and it's raining. Here's the weather summary for the past seven days from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
Date High Low Precipitation
April 12 56 41
April 13 65 31
April 14 65 39
April 15 60 38 0.04
April 16 60 37 0.33
April 17 58 38 trace
April 18 47 37 0.10
Each year residents, families and others can recommend employees from Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio for their outstanding care and service they give.
This year MHCO received many nominations. Eight people were chosen from the organization to attend the "LeadingAge Ohio" regional award luncheon to be honored for their outstanding care.
Five were from Mennonite Memorial Home and three were from Maple Crest Senior Living Village.
