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May Day turns 100 at Bluffton University

Bluffton University will celebrate its 100th May Day weekend May 6-9 with traditional alumni reunions, student activities and graduation events.

Added to the festivities this year are three special events on Saturday, May 8:

Riley Creek Festival returns to Bluffton campus April 24

Bluffton University will host the seventh annual Riley Creek Festival beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 24, on the Neufeld Hall lawn.

The event is free-except for lunch-and open to the public. Lunch, served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., is $6 for adults and $3 for children.

"Wild, Wild West" is the theme of this year's festival, a day of music, entertainment, games and, starting at 3:30 p.m. at the College Avenue bridge, the annual rubber duck race down Riley Creek. A racing duck may be purchased for $1, with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross.

University production: It's more than just a story about "little women"

Liz, Darah and Erin DillerIt's mo

Sarah Diller thinks she knows why she has been drawn to theater from a young age.

The Bluffton University junior says "I'm the classic middle child-the Jan Brady Syndrome," referring to the attention-starved middle daughter on "The Brady Bunch" of '70s sitcom lore. "That is the sole explanation for why I'm in theater."

BVHS Service of Remembrance in Findlay April 25

The ninth annual BVHS Service of Remembrance will be held at the First Presbyterian Church at 2330 South Main St., Findlay on Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m.

The non-denominational memorial service will honor BVHS patients and residents who died in 2009. All are welcome to attend the service, which will be followed by a reception.

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Meanwhile at Musselman Library

Meanwhile at Musselman Library

This is the week to buy used books. Here is the scene from Bluffton University's Musselman Library's used book sale. It is one of two used book sales in progress this week in Bluffton. The Bluffton Friends of the (Public) Library are also holding a sale.

Pardon me boy, is that the Bluffton choo-choo?

Oscar Velasquez

By Austin Arnold, BGSU Icon intern

Oscar Velasquez is in the process of painting his second mural for the community of Bluffton - this one on the side of Forever in Stitches on Main Street.

This mural will be a period scene from the 1940s and will feature local people who worked on the railroad along with local townspeople and businesses that have helped make up Bluffton's history.

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