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Three more 60+ degree days, then we hit bottom

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2010 - 12:48pm

Three more 60+ degree days, then we hit bottom. Spring is here but the temperature keeps fooling around with us. Here are the highs and lows for the past seven days provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.


Date High Low Rain

16th 59 29

17th 61 27

18th 66 33

19th 65 40

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Regional news
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Village transferring property back to Bluffton University

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 23, 2010 - 11:34am

Bluffton council learned that two parcels of land that the village holds title to should be transferred to Bluffton University. That fact was announced at the March 22 Bluffton council meeting.

According to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, the first is the parcel where the old water tower was located (behind Founders Hall). The second parcel is where Riley Creek Court complex is located.

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Public Meetings
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Assembling Haiti relief kits

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2010 - 9:30pm
Assembling Haiti relief kits

On their spring-break tour, members of Shining Through, Bluffton University's music ministry team, contributed to the Haiti earthquake relief effort during a stop at the Mennonite Central Committee Material Resource Center in Akron, Pa. Helping assemble relief kits here are (left to right) Joel Wildermuth of Sidney; Abbi Stern of Chambersburg, Pa.; Robin Snyder of Delta; Zachary Berlon (back) of Kettering; Kelsey Smith (in green) of Celina; Andrew Chamberlain of Lima; and Anna Pawsey of Clyde.

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15 minutes with Mary Catherine Bixel Waltner (aka Bix)

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2010 - 6:22pm
Mary Bixel Waltner

Hey, I never knew your middle name. Where did you go to college?
I graduated in 1968 from Bluffton High School and had no idea what I wanted for my life I just knew I needed to get out of Bluffton. I had heard about Freeman Jr. College through a student of my father's at BC and decided that's where I wanted to go. I majored in music and Tim, my husband, who I met there, with a general education degree. Our intent was to finish college but, unfortunately it never happened.

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People
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Bluffton scholar urges transformed immigration debate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2010 - 5:39pm

People and their lives should become the focus of the ongoing debate about immigration, Bluffton University's 2009-10 Civic Engagement Scholar argued in a March 16 presentation to a campus audience.

Dr. Paul Neufeld Weaver, assistant professor of education, cited the case of Ad'an, a friend who applied for political asylum in the United States after fleeing Guatemala in 1985.

Twenty-five years later, the case is still unresolved, Weaver said, noting the need to find a compromise to fix "a system that's completely broken" and get people like Ad'an out of limbo.

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Bluffton University
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University "Shining Through" tours east coast during spring break

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2010 - 5:33pm

Bluffton music ministry comes 'Shining Through' on spring-break tour
The 20 Bluffton University undergraduates who comprise Shining Through, a music ministry team, contributed to the Haiti earthquake relief effort during their spring break.

Among the stops on the team's 10-day tour through North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania was the Mennonite Central Committee Material Resource Center, an Akron, Pa., site where items are collected to send to people in need overseas.

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Bluffton University
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