Do you have old photos of Beaverdam, Beaverdam school yearbooks or other Beaverdam history items?
The Bluffton Icon is interested in seeing your collection. The Icon is working on a photo project and is in need of photos and history information about Beaverdam.
Contact Fred Steiner, Bluffton Icon, at [email protected] or 419-889-3065.
Hanif Abdurraqib, a poet, essayist and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, will give a public reading at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 12 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall at Bluffton University. Abdurraqib is the author of a biography on A Tribe Called Quest called “Go Ahead in the Rain,” a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award nominee for “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much” and “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Pitchfork, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Esquire, GQ and Publisher’s Weekly.
Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, associate professor of music at Bluffton University, will present the Forum “Songs for Resistance and Revolution” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12, in the Yoder Recital Hall.
Her presentation will examine the music of social movements—both sacred and secular—establishing the broader cultural context for songs of resistance from the Great War era.
Ashley Eachus, a senior, is the Bluffton High School February student of the month.
She is a member of the Symphonic Choir, Show Choir, Chamber Choir, Drama club, Renaissance and National Honor Society.
Ashley is a member of the BHS volleyball, basketball and soccer teams. She received an all-conference honorable mention from the NWC in volleyball her junior year. She is also an academic letter winner, and served as senior captain on the girls' basketball team that won the Northwest Conference title.
LOCAL CHURCH ASH WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE AT BOTTOM OF STORY -
Ash Wednesday, a century-old Christian tradition, becomes a new tradition in Bluffton this year, as the celebration to begin the season of Lent takes place on Wednesday, March 6.
From 7 to 9 a.m. a group of Bluffton area pastors will offer “Ashes to Go,” according to Rev. Karol Farris, pastor of Bluffton Presbyterian Church.
The idea behind the observance is this: Ashes to Go are offered because the reminders of need, humility, and healing shouldn’t be confined to church buildings.
Rita McVetta, 75, died March 2, 2019, at 12:26 p.m., at Bluffton Hospital.
Rita was born Aug. 21, 1943, in Findlay to the late Paul and Helen (Hartman) Rankin. On June 4, 1966, she married John "Bill" McVetta who survives in Mt. Cory.
Rita graduated from Cory-Rawson High School in 1961. She worked as a laborer for the Peerless Glove Factory and D.T.R Industries, both in Bluffton, retiring in 2007 from D.T.R. Industries.
Rita was a member of Mt. Cory United Methodist Church.
Decades before John Wagner became Bluffton's Nationwide agent, a radio and television retail and repair store was located at 105 N. Main Street. It was Beach Radio Television, owned by Oliver Beach.
To help date the photo is a 1950 or 1951 Dodge parking in front of the doorway.
To the left of you can read the "EWS" of "The Bluffton News" located at 103 N. Main St. at the time. To the right (today it's Family Eye Care) was Hankish's Confectionary.
March is Social work month: This year’s theme is "Elevate social work."
Each day, nearly 700,000 social workers nationwide work to elevate and empower others, giving them the ability to solve life’s problems, cope with personal roadblocks and get the services they need.
We all know special social workers in the area, that give their time, energy and love outside of their 9-5 work day in order to make life a little easier for others.
