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Latest flood damage in monetary figures: $179,400

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 7, 2011 - 4:30pm
Dumpsters on Cherry Street show the results of flooding

Bluffton's Feb. 28 flood damages are estimated at $179,400, according to Rick Skilliter, Bluffton police chief. It is likely that the figure will climb.

Skilliter released additional figures for the response to the flooding:
o Village General Fund Expenditures (payroll, supplies, dumpsters) - $3,707.96
o Total sandbags generated - 2,354
o Volunteers (making sandbags, feeding assistance) - 182 (average 2 hours of work per person) = 364 hrs

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Local group interested in making a community park out of the cemetery on Jefferson Street

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 7, 2011 - 4:23pm
The original village cemetery on Jefferson Street

A group of historical-minded Bluffton residents is contacting family members who may have ancestors buried in an old Bluffton cemetery.

"We want to contact all possible heirs and share with them what our hopes and desires are for what is known as the Shannon Cemetery on Bluffton's Jefferson Street," said Dick Boehr, who is spearheading the committee.

According to Boehr, the plan is to create a very nice park area, which could be maintained and would have an identification plaque, which would list as many people as can be verified, who were buried in the cemetery.

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March 26 is 'Kid's Night Out' in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 7, 2011 - 2:56pm

Bluffton University recreation students and intramural staff will host Kid's Night Out from 6-10 p.m. Saturday, March 26, in Founders Hall.

Open to children in grades 1-6, the event costs $13 per child if registered by March 24 and $15 at the door. Families who pre-register more than one child will pay $11 per youngster.

A parent must accompany any child who registers at the door. Checks should be payable to the Bluffton University Recreation Club.

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Mast to give Smith Peace Lecture on March 15

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 7, 2011 - 2:54pm

Dr. Gerald Mast, professor of communication at Bluffton University, will deliver the 2011 C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture, "True Evangelical Faith and the Gospel of Peace," at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 15, in Bluffton's Yoder Recital Hall. His presentation is free and open to the public.

In the lecture, Mast, a Bluffton faculty member since 1996, will explore how people of faith can respond without cynicism or naivet'e to the overwhelming amount of violence and human need in the world.

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Exhibition of Bluffton seniors' art to open

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 7, 2011 - 2:52pm

Bluffton University seniors Peter Kidwell and Brittany Sinnema-Jackson will showcase their artwork during the first of Bluffton's two Senior Exhibitions, March 15-25 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.

The exhibit, titled "Controlled Chaos," is free and open to the public, as is a reception for the artists from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 20.

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Lorrie Montgomery 1960-2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 7, 2011 - 9:45am
Lorrie Montgomery

Lorrie Montgomery, 51, of Bluffton, died after a five-year battle with cancer, at 10:42 p.m. on March 4, 2011. She was born in Roanoke, Va., to the late Homer Brookshire, Sr. and Shirley Brookshire of Riverdale, Ga.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Homer "Butch" Brookshire and survived by two sisters: Teresa (Keith) Harris of Huntsville, Ala., and Kathryn "Suzie" Harper of Riverdale, Ga.

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