OBERLIN, Ohio - The Inter-Regional Rumble cross country meet at Oberlin College presented the Bluffton University harriers a great opportunity to run season-best and personal-record times. The Beavers delivered while running among 30+ teams from throughout the state of Ohio as well as Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, many of whom are nationally ranked within their respective NCAA regions.
Special note about Monday’s council meeting: • 7:30 p.m. – council will tour the Bluffton fire station on North Main St.
• 8 p.m. – council will be in session in the third floor of the town hall
Bluffton council will hear an extensive report from its streets, lights and alleys committee on Monday.
On Monday, Bluffton school board will consider action to eventually place two renewal levies on the March 15, 2016, ballot.
The levies are:
• Three-year renewal for the school’s permanent improvement percent income tax levy, which expires Dec. 31, 2016.
• Ten-year renew of the Bluffton Public Library’s one mill (1.0) levy for the purpose of maintaining current level of resources and services. It also expires on Dec. 31, 2016.
Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, will present a program Tuesday, Oct. 27, on her newly published book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control.”
Beginning with a reception at 3:45 p.m., the event is free and open to the public in Bluffton’s Musselman Library Reading Room.
Dr. Lucia Unrau, a pianist and professor of music at Bluffton University, will present a faculty recital with Michigan musicians Sandra Jackson and David Jackson at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, in Bluffton’s Yoder Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
The performance is one of several this fall featuring Unrau and Sandra Jackson, an assistant professor of clarinet at Eastern Michigan University and Unrau’s summer colleague at Interlochen (Mich.) Arts Camp.
Cyneatha Millsaps, lead pastor at Community Mennonite Church in Markham, Ill., will discuss “Living and Trusting the Word of God” in Bluffton University’s Spiritual Life Week forum on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Millsaps, also the multicultural liaison for the Illinois Mennonite Conference, will speak at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall, telling how a group of young Mennonites made a difference in her neighborhood after moving there. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District wants you to take a Bluffton hike.
Your invitation is at 9 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, at Motter Metro Park, Columbus Grove Road, Bluffton.
“The hike starts at 9 a.m. last approximately 1 1⁄2 to 2 hours on easy to moderate terrain,” Bob Antibus of Bluffton and park district board member, said.
