From the Bluffton University website:
Essential employees, please report to campus at your regular time. Due to weather and road conditions, morning classes are canceled. Classes begin at noon and offices open at 1 p.m.
Commuter students who feel it is not safe to drive from their home, please be in contact with your professors.
The weather may interfere, but in case it does not, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a brown bag lunch roundtable discussion from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in the third floor of the town hall.
*Should the event be postponed, a reschedule date of Wednesday, Feb. 12, is in place.
The roundtable's theme continues the chamber's Jan. 17 breakfast discussion of “How can we improve Bluffton?" The discussion is open to any chamber member and Bluffton resident.
The Village of Bluffton anticipates significant snow Tuesday into Wednesday. Because many streets and cul-de-sacs are already inundated with piled snow, village officials ask vehicle owners to remove vehicles from village streets or park on the odd side of the street on Wednesday.
• Vehicles should be parked on the odd side of the street on Wednesday.
• Vehicles should then be parked on the even side of the street on Thursday.
Do you really want to know how cold it was in January? If so, open the attachment at the bottom of this story. It's worth one thousand words.
In a nutshell, January's normal average temperature is 25.4 degrees. Not this year: it was 17.6 degrees.
It gets worse. January's normal average precipitation is 2.26 inches. Not this year: 2.07 inches plus 23.6 inches of snow. That's above knees of this writer. The most snow was recorded on Jan. 5 with 7.5 inches.
Blanchard Valley Hospital’s Woman Wise Mammography will be offering free screening mammograms Friday, Feb. 21, at Woman Wise located in the EasternWoods Outpatient Center, 15900 Medical Drive South, Findlay, as part of the Hancock County Mammography Screening Initiative (HCMSI).
Appointments for free mammograms will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to those who qualify. Women and men must be uninsured and meet eligibility criteria related to age, breast cancer risk and household income.
To learn if you qualify and to schedule an appointment, call 419.423.5451.
Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce wants get you out of the house to do some shopping locally - on Wednesday.
Focusing on the hours of 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., perhaps the warmest part of the day, Bluffton holds its first-ever "cash mob." Although it's not a cash mob in the traditional big city sense, it will offers an interesting assortment of specials in several downtown businesses. It is the chamber's plan to offer one cash mob per month in 2014.
