Luke Shipp, vice president of commercial insurance, First Insurance Group, will lead this month’s Alumni Forum, at 11 a.m. on Oct. 25, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The 2004 Bluffton alumnus will lead a panel of Bluffton alumni currently employed by the insurance industry and discuss his experience in the insurance field.
Cash and in-kind awards valued at $7,000 are prizes in Bluffton Center For Entrepreneurs’ 2017 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition, announced this week by BCE.
The contest's Start-up Division offers a $4,000 first place, $1,000 second place and $500 third place cash awards, in addition to several in-kind prizes. It is open to contestants from Allen, Hancock, Putnam and Hardin counties.
Every poet, song writer and artist who created a sunrise must have viewed one like this sunrise in Bluffton on Oct. 11. This view is from Grove Street at 7:30 a.m.
Or as Vladimir Nabokov put it: "Life is a great sunrise."
Stratton Auto Group, North Main Street, Bluffton, will give customers a free tire rotation during an oil change this fall - just mention you saw this offer on the Icon.
Call the service center at 419-358-0303 to schedule your oil change. Don't forget to request the free tire rotation.
Bluffton University will host an evening forum titled “Israeli and Palestinian Parents Grieve and Work Together for Justice” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Tickets are available for the Artist Series performance by the Vienna Piano Trio at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27 in Yoder Recital Hall.
Founded in 1988, the trio is particularly successful in works by composers closely associated with Austria, such as Brahms, Schubert and Haydn.
Reserved seats are $25 for adults, $20 for senior citizens and non-Bluffton students and $10 for children ages 6-13. Children ages 5 and under are admitted free.
