Sarah Schriner and Paig Buroker, members of the Bluffton High School girls' basketball team, were name to the McDonald's Girls' Holiday Basketball Tournament all-tourney team.
Arlington defeated Bluffton 43-34 to win this year's title. In the consolation game Allen East defeated Cory-Rawson 61-30.
In the opening round, Bluffton stopped Cory-Rawson 50-45 and Arlington beat Allen East 48-39.
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Legendary investor Warren Buffett is famous for his long-term perspective. He has said that he likes to make investments he would be comfortable holding even if the market shut down for 10 years.
Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers and University Chorale, along with a flute ensemble and a brass quartet, will headline “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,” the university’s Christmas concert, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 in Yoder Recital Hall.
The Friday evening performance will be the only presentation of the full concert. A shortened version will be presented as Bluffton’s weekly forum, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, also in Yoder Recital Hall.
Eight Bluffton University students observed how their business majors could have global impact at the recent Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) conference in Wichita, Kan.
Comprised of members from Canada and the United States, MEDA is an organization that aims to create business solutions to poverty and to generate economic growth for small businesses.
Jeff Gundy, a professor of English at Bluffton University, talks about his newly published book, “Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace,” during an author program Nov. 21 in Bluffton’s Musselman Library.
A poetic exploration of theology, “Songs from an Empty Cage” is a sequel to Gundy’s “Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing” and also the 10th book in the C. Henry Smith Book Series. Gundy has published five books of poems and three of prose; his latest book of poems, “Somewhere Near Defiance,” is forthcoming from Anhinga Press.
When she last left Syria about two years ago, the hardest part for Sarah Adams was not knowing what the future held for a country already at civil war.
But the people she had met during her visits as a Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker were hopeful, and they gave that hope to her, Adams said at Bluffton University’s weekly chapel service Nov. 21.
And despite the continuing conflict, she is keeping that faith, bolstered by stories of:
Ellen Messing, 78, of Bluffton, died Nov. 21, 2013 at her residence. She was born April 23, 1935, in Ada to the late Rufus G. and Lillian M. Howard Smith.
She retired from Sprint where she was an operator and dispatcher. She was a member of the English Lutheran Church, Bluffton and the Ada VFW. She was a 1953 graduate of Ada High School.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Louis David Brentlinger.
