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Bluffton men's and women's soccer vs. Defiance recap

Posted by Staff on October 21, 2022 - 4:25am

Men’s soccer
The Bluffton University men's soccer team downed rival Defiance October 19 at Defiance, when senior Dalton Taynor (Troy/Miami East) delivered the only goal of the match with 4:51 to play.

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Letter: U.S. Senate candidates

Posted by Staff on October 20, 2022 - 9:36am

To the editor:

A few years back I read JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy, and found it very interesting.  But now as he is framing himself as an opponent of the “elites,” I believe that Mr. Vance has forgotten his working class roots. 

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Letters
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Oct. 21 Star Party to view meteors, planets

Posted by Staff on October 20, 2022 - 9:16am

The public is invited to drop by the Ohio Northern University Observatory, 800 W. Lincoln Ave., between 8:00-10:00 p.m. on Friday, October 21, for the third public astronomy event at ONU Observatory for Fall 2022.

This event is scheduled to coincide with the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower.  This is a popular annual meteor shower that emanates from the constellation Orion. 

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Events
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Grand Canyon

Posted by Staff on October 20, 2022 - 8:40am

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!

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Health Services
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Blufftonites share ideas, answer dot polls

Posted by Paula Scott on October 20, 2022 - 8:18am

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.

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Findlay author with Bluffton ties has humorous view of growing up in the '50s and '60s

Posted by Paula Scott on October 20, 2022 - 5:23am

By Paula Scott

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.

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Bluffton Public Library
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