Blanchard Valley Hospital was today named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health Analytics,TM a leading provider of data-driven analytics and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare. This is the third time Blanchard Valley Hospital has been recognized with this honor (2005, 2011, 2015).
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, will host the 40-voice men’s choir of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Sunday, March 8. The choir will present both the 8 and 10:30 a.m. services.
This free program includes traditional and contemporary religious music. Chorus members accompany the choir on organ, piano, violin, saxophone, guitars, brass, and drums.
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Bluffton University softball team made it interesting but the Beavers still came away with their third straight win of the season in walkoff fashion against the Ladies of Kenyon College. The victory helped Bluffton stay perfect at 3-0 to start the season while Kenyon (0-1) dropped its season opener.
Those puppeteers we visited recently at the Bluffton Child Development Center now have painted faces.
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The Icon stopped into visit the morning Kindergarten class at BCDC last week for an artistic update.
We found Daphne Johnston with her sparkly cat, Drew Frideger with his one-eyed creature, Gracie Warren with her cat with no name and Sam Hartzler with Mario.
The Icon promised to keep viewers informed as clothing is added to the puppets. Click here for an earlier view.
Ideal Images, owned by Rachel and Aaron Webster, have sold their 114 E. College Ave. storefront and have relocated inside The Black Lab Trading Co., 121 N. Main St.
See story above for the new owners of the East College Avenue building.
Ideal Images specializes in corporate wear, school spirit, custom embroidery and silk screening. Those services will continue to be offered in the Main Street location.
TTS Rental Properties of Bluffton has purchased the building housing Ideal Images at 114 E. College Ave., Bluffton. The keys passed to the new owners on March 2.
Sheena and Tom Dotson are the owners of TTS Rental Properties. They also own Tommy's Tire Sales, 319 N. Main St., and Tommy Truck Sales, State Route 103, Bluffton.
Rachel and Aaron Webster sold the buiding, which had housed Ideal Images. See the story below for an update on Ideal Images.
“What I’ve learned, looking back, is I shouldn’t be here,” said Jones, who was diagnosed with Stage IV brain cancer as a freshman at the University of North Carolina in 2006. “The sole reason I’m here is because somebody gave back.”
That’s what Jones was at Bluffton University to witness firsthand on Feb. 25 as founder and CEO of the Vs. Cancer Foundation, which is dedicated to combating childhood cancer.
