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Lifetime Service Awardee Kathy Carr to speak at Bluffton commencement

Posted by Staff on March 14, 2023 - 6:00am

Kathy (Gaines) Carr, a 1978 Bluffton graduate, long-time educator and community advocate, will address Bluffton University’s 2023 graduating class during the May 6 Commencement ceremony in Sommer Center.

Carr began her career with Fort Wayne Community Schools as a special education teacher in 1978, teaching severe and profoundly mentally handicapped students, moderately mentally handicapped students and students with learning disabilities.  During her 42 years with the district, she continuously took on advanced responsibilities and served as a resource teacher, dean of students, principal, manager of recruitment and hiring, and director of human resources. She earned both a Master of Science in Elementary Education and a Master of Science in Elementary School Administration from Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne.

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Bluffton University
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Chamber breakfast meeting recap for March 2023

Posted by Paula Scott on March 13, 2023 - 11:46am

The March 10 meeting of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce demonstrated the opportunity to network not just with the folks sitting at your table, but to also hear from and reach out to all forty or fifty people in attendance.

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Business
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Chamber mic check

Posted by Paula Scott on March 13, 2023 - 10:55am

At the March 10 Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce meeting, director Jim Enneking (upper left) passed the mic to a number of speakers including Kori Phipps, director of the Bluffton Child Development Center (top center), Laura Voth, United Way communications coordinator (top right), Erin Walsh Hardesty, director of the United Way of Greater Lima (lower left), Jesse Blackburn, Viilage Administrator (lower center), and Jenny Pilarowski, Ride to Remember volunteer (lower right).

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Bluffton campus has hair salon/barbershop for all hair types

Posted by Staff on March 13, 2023 - 8:27am

The Cuts at Bluffton, a campus hair salon/barbershop for all hair types, is open with styles provided by barbers and stylists from Fresh N Faded in Lima.

Services include cuts, shampooing, line ups, color, conditioning treatments, two-strand twists and retwists, braids and more.

Learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJC5u3IMcg8

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Bluffton University
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Beaver softball falls to Edgewood and Benedictine

Posted by Staff on March 13, 2023 - 7:44am

March 15 home opener; game one starts at 3:30 p.m.

By Ethan Stearns, sports information assistant
www.blufftonbeavers.com

AUBURNDALE, Fla.--The Bluffton University softball team finished up its slate of matchups in Florida on Friday, March 10, 2023, coming up short against Edgewood College and Benedictine University out of Illinois. Bluffton closed the week 5-5 as the Beavers prepare to head north.

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Sports
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Friends' formal tea features poet Jeff Gundy

Posted by Staff on March 13, 2023 - 7:01am

Library fundraiser also includes silent auction

The Friends of the Bluffton Public Library will hold a Spring Tea and Silent Auction at 6:00 p.m.on Thursday, April 27 at the library, 145 S. Main.  

Tickets are $15 and will go on sale at the library on March 15. The event includes a formal tea, a light meal. The number of tickets is limited, so please get your tickets early.

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Bluffton Public Library
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