By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
The Grand Canyon is a seventh Natural Wonder of the World. It is an impressive testament to the power of water. The canyon was formed millions of years ago when water drained off the Rocky Mountains to form the Colorado River. The river ultimately carved a canyon 227 miles long and at some points 10 miles wide.
The Grand Canyon is an example of the quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. “In the confrontation between stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance” is an inspirational quote in his publication Life’s Little Instruction Book, written for his son going to college. His book was on the New York Times best seller list for over two years.
So, why is a pharmacist writing about the Grand Canyon? Well, it has more to do with perseverance than forging water through rocks!
The October 19 Bluffton Beyond Tormorrow community engagement event attracted a steady stream of Bluffton residents who participated in dot polls and noted their ideas and opinions on large posters. An online version is at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/bbt2022_2, open until November 9.
If you met author Barbara Lockard during the years she worked in Bluffton for Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, you might not even know that she is a writer. You might not know that she is wickedly funny–and I don’t mean that in a Halloween sense.
But you will have your chance if you come to hear Lockard and her sister Karen Striet at noon on Tuesday, October 25 at the Bluffton Public Library. A resident of Findlay, Lockard spent the first year of the COVID andemic writing on her blog, “Old and Slow and Turning White.” I’ve laughed aloud many, many times at the memories–often fond and always cynical–that Lockard writes about.
Three Bluffton High School seniors and one junior from the league title team earned first team All-Northwest Conference boys soccer honors in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.
Seniors Eden Antrim, Justin Good and Nolan Hoffman made first team All-NWC, along with junior Pirate teammate Kyle Basil.
Junior Ben Hartzler made second team all-league, as did seniors Luke Shepherd and Ethan Oglesbee.
Junior Theo Andreas made honorable mention all-league.
