Dr. Julie DeGraw, vice president for student life and dean of students at Bluffton University, has been honored by the Association for Christians in Student Development (ACSD) for her promotion of diversity.
DeGraw, who has been at Bluffton since 2012, received the Jane Hideko Higa Multicultural Competency and Advancement Award from ACSD at its recent conference at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn.
This week the Icon features flowers blooming in the Ada railroad depot park. You can't miss the park. It's on Ada's Main Street and is worth the trip from Bluffton. Stop and smell the clustered bellflowers (featured today). Also, pause and admire the bee balm, dianthus, gallarda, scabiosa, speedwell and lots of day lillies. Watch for more flowers to smell all week. These flowers are also featured on the Ada Icon this week.
Arabella Nicole Bricker was stillborn June 20, 2014, at Bluffton Hospital. She was the daughter of Jesse and Tara Marsh Bricker of Bluffton. She is survived by a brother, Sebastian Bricker, maternal grandparents, Pam and Cliff Marsh of Bluffton and paternal grandmother, Barbara Marino of Pittsburgh, Pa.
She was preceded in death by her paternal great grandfather, Keith Bricker. There will be no public services. Arrangements are through Chiles-Laman Funeral and Cremation Services, Bluffton.
The 2014 Miss West Central Ohio Pageant Scholarship Program will take place in Bluffton this summer.
In recent years the event was held in Van Wert, but this year it will take place in Yoder Recital Hall on the Bluffton University campus. This year's pageant takes place on Saturday, Aug. 9.
Single-event tickets for the 2014-15 Bluffton University Artist Series go on sale Friday, July 11. This year’s series features sand artist Joe Castillo; the Palace Theatre Big Band; harpist and Findlay, Ohio, native Bridget Kibbey; Cantus, a men’s vocal ensemble; and the Spencers, husband-and-wife illusionists.
July 1st is the deadline for fair entries. Please make sure to get a copy of your entries to Jan. There is a new Facebook page for The Beaverdam Bunch Club so if you or your parents have Facebook, they may join. Please continue to bring in pop tabs for our community service.
