Bluffton University will host its annual Academic Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 25, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Students to be honored include graduating seniors in the Honors Program, C. Henry Smith Scholars and Pi Delta inductees, as well as departmental award recipients, who are recognized as distinguished senior scholars. In addition, several seniors will present on their departmental honors projects.
Bluffton First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., invites all to participate in Holy Week services, beginning with a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13. The service will include faith stories by the youth who will be baptized on Easter Sunday.
On Good Friday, April 14, the Bluffton community ecumenical Cross Walk begins at 11:30 a.m. at English Lutheran and ends with a worship service at First Mennonite at noon. Various members of the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association will participate and Dr. Lucia Unrau is the organist.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University baseball team struggled to generate any offense in a 4-1 loss to rival Defiance College on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Bluffton fell to 11-11 overall and 4-8 in the Heartland Conference, while the Jackets improved to 8-17 and 5-7 in the HCAC.
He’s the result of mixing coffee with an arts and crafts show, town fireworks, a Thanksgiving celebration, several downtown promotions and all of the activities of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Phil, owner of Common Grounds coffee shop, is the new part-time director of the Bluffton chamber. With the job comes the best office view in the village – the very front room in the second floor of the town hall.
Of course, lots of other things come with the job for Zimmerly, who became chamber director earlier this month.
This is the second part of a two-part series on the reopening of Gallery 323. Selected photos of current art for sale are at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton’s newest downtown retail store offers items shoppers will discover only in Bluffton – art by local artists.
The store, Gallery 323, originally opened ahead of the Christmas season in 2014. The idea for the business was to highlight area artists by providing them with a location to sell their work.
One of Bluffton's great blue herons enjoys watching Riley Creek from a tree branch. This one, photographed with a cell phone camera spends mornings in the creek, or above it, near Campus Drive.
Bluffton High School girl’s softball team continues its winning ways, defeating Spencerville 5-3 in recent action.
The win moves BHS to 5-1 overall and 1-0 in the Northwest Conference. Spencerville drops to 2-4.
Averey Rumer had a double and 2 RBIs. Grace Nickels also had a double with 1 RBI. Jazmynn Wilson had a triple. Libby Schaadt (5-1) was Bluffton’s winning pitcher.
Pleasant View United Methodist Church, between Pandora and Bluffton, will host a soup benefit on Sunday, April 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The benefit will include numerous soups, breads and desserts. Individual servings of soup will be available for carry-out.
The benefit is for medical expenses for a student in Cory-Rawson elementary school who has Langerhans Cell Histiocytic (LCH), a disorder that causes the body too accumulate too many immature Langerhans cells that build up in certain parts of the body where they can form tumors or damage organs.
Beaverdam Church of Christ will hold a chicken and rib dinner from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday, May 13, at the church, 308 Main St., Beaverdam.
Tickets are $8 for a half chicken dinner and $11 for a rib dinner. Each meal includes baked potato, green beans, roll and butter. Desserts are available for $1 each and pop/coffee for 50 cents.
Dine in or drive-thru available. Contact any church member for tickets or call 419-643-4301.
NOTE: Bluffton congregations may send Easter services details to: [email protected]
Trinity Lutheran Church, Jenera, announces its Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services.
The Maundy Thursday service on April 13 begins at 7 p.m. Pastor Al Schmitzer will lead a review of Scripture’s teaching on Holy Communion from Luther’s Small Catechism.
Good Friday’s service on April 14, begins at 7 p.m. Pastor Matt Nowak will lead the service based on Jesus Seven Words from the Cross.
